sketch

Plural: sketches

Noun

• preliminary drawing for later elaboration
• a brief literary description
• short descriptive summary (of events)
• a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine
• A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
• A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
• A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
• A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show.
• A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
• A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show.
• A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
• An amusing person.
• A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
• A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
• 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).

Verb

Verb Forms: sketched, sketching, sketches

• To make a rough or hasty drawing.
• make a sketch of
  • "sketch the building"
• describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
  • "sketch the outline of the book"
• To make a brief, basic drawing.
• To describe briefly and with very few details.

Adj

• Sketchy, shady, questionable.

Examples

• He sketched the accident, sticking to the facts as they had happened.
• He would quickly sketch out his potential moves before committing to a word.
• I have to write a character sketch for a novel study.
• I usually sketch with a pen rather than a pencil.
• to keep sketch

Synonyms

adumbrate, cartoon, chalk out, outline, resume, study, survey, vignette, pen picture, pen portrait, skit

Anagrams of sketch