sketch
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sketch
- /ˈskɛt͡ʃ/ Canadian, US, UK
- [ˈskɛt͡ʃ] Canadian, US, UK
- /ˈsket͡ʃ/ Australia
- [ˈsket͡ʃ] Australia
- /ˈske̝t͡ʃ/ New Zealand
- [ˈske̝t͡ʃ] New Zealand
Rhymes with -ɛtʃ
Where it comes from
From Dutch schets or German Skizze, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”), from σχεδόν (skhedón, “near, nearby”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”). Compare scheme.
verb sketches · sketching · sketched · scetch
- To make a brief, basic drawing. I usually sketch with a pen rather than a pencil.
- To describe briefly and with very few details. He sketched the accident, sticking to the facts as they had happened.
noun sketches · scetch
- A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines. Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
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A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
Similar: croquis
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A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
I have to write a character sketch for a novel study.
Similar: pen picture, pen portrait
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A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
Similar: skit
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A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
Similar: skit
- An amusing person.
- A lookout; vigilant watch for something. to keep sketch
- A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature. A very capable journalist, he wrote the Parliamentary sketch for the Pall Mall and the Westminster Gazette for several years.
- A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).
adjective more sketch · most sketch · scetch
- Sketchy, shady, questionable. You call at 9 am on a Saturday, lucky I'm even awake. [...] Then expect me to pick you up at a gas station near a loony bin, that's sketch. I don't even want to ask what you're doing.
- Fascist or with right-wing or neo-Nazi ties; NSBM.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: outline, cartoon, chalk out, study, survey, vignette, resume, adumbrate, drawing, picture, esquisse, drafting, sketchbook, draw, photo, portrait
Translations
Every language
verb to make a basic drawing
| Español | esquiciar, bosquejar, esbozar |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 草擬 /草拟 cǎonǐ, 寫生 /写生 xiěshēng |
| Português | rascunhar |
| Français | croquer, esquisser |
| Deutsch | skizzieren |
| Italiano | abbozzare, schizzare, delineare |
| Română | schița |
| Русский | набра́сывать nabrásyvatʹ, наброса́ть nabrosátʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | phác thảo |
verb to describe briefly and with few details
| Français | croquer |
|---|---|
| Italiano | sunteggiare, sintetizzare, schematizzare, compendiare |
| Русский | обрисовать obrisovatʹ |
noun brief musical, dramatic or literary work etc.
| Español | sketch, sainete |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 스케치 seukechi |
| 日本語 | スケッチ suketchi |
| 中文 | 素描 sùmiáo |
| Português | sketch, esquete |
| Français | sketch, saynète |
| Deutsch | Sketch |
| Italiano | sketch, numero, quadro, scenetta |
| Ελληνικά | σκετς skets, νούμερο noúmero |
| Русский | скетч sketč |
noun quick freehand drawing
| Español | esquicio, bosquejo, esbozo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 스케치 seukechi, 소묘 somyo |
| 日本語 | スケッチ suketchi, 素描 sobyō |
| 中文 | 草拟 cǎonǐ, 速写 sùxiě, 素描 sùmiáo |
| Português | esboço, rascunho, esquisso |
| Français | esquisse |
| Deutsch | Skizze |
| Italiano | schizzo |
| Ελληνικά | σκίτσο skítso |
| Română | schiță |
| Русский | эски́з eskíz, набро́сок nabrósok, скетч sketč |
| Tiếng Việt | phác hoạ |
| العربية | رَسْم تَقْرِيبِيّ rasm taqrībiyy, رَسِيمَة rasīma |
| עברית | סְקִיצָה skítsa |
noun rough design or draft
| Português | rascunho |
|---|---|
| Français | ébauche, étude |
| Italiano | scarabocchio, bozza |
| Русский | набро́сок nabrósok, этюд etjud |
| עברית | סְקִיצָה skítsa |
noun brief description
| Français | esquisse |
|---|---|
| Italiano | resoconto, descrizione |
| Русский | о́черк óčerk |
noun informal: amusing person
| Italiano | macchietta |
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noun humorous newspaper article
| Русский | фельето́н felʹjetón |
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