Sketch

What do we mean by sketch?

A hasty or undetailed drawing or painting often made as a preliminary study. noun

A brief general account or presentation; an outline. noun

A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or a short story. noun

A brief composition, especially for the piano. noun

A short, often satirical scene or play in a revue or variety show; a skit. noun

An amusing person. noun

To make a sketch of; outline. intransitive verb

To make a sketch. intransitive verb

To present the essential facts of, with omission of details; outline briefly or slightly; describe or depict in a general, incomplete, and suggestive way.

Specifically, in art, to draw or portray in outline, or with partial shading; make a rough or slight draft of, especially as a memorandum for more finished work: as, to sketch a group or a landscape.

Synonyms To portray. See outline, n.

To make a sketch; present essential facts or features, with omission of details.

Specifically, in art, to draw in outline or with partial shading: as, she sketches cleverly.

A brief, slight, or hasty delineation; a rapid or offhand presentation of the essential facts of anything; a rough draft; an outline: as, in literature, the sketch of an event, a character, or a career. noun

In art: noun

The first suggestive embodiment. of an artist's idea as expressed on canvas, or on paper, or in the clay model, upon which his more finished performance is to be elaborated or built up. noun

A slight transcript from nature of the human figure, or of any object, made in crayon or chalk with simple shading, or any rough draft in colors, taken with the object of securing for the artist the materials for a finished picture; a design in outline; a delineated memorandum; a slight delineation or indication of an artist's thought, invention, or recollection. noun

A short and slightly constructed play or literary composition: as, “sketches by Boz.” noun

In music: noun

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 skit

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).

Words that are spelled similarly to sketch:
sketch, ketch, skitch, spetch, skeoch, skutch, skeech.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word sketch:
improv, monty, fey, comedy, palin, parodied, troupe, parodies, python, parody, conan, sitcom, comedian, saturday, show, recurring, swan, aired, debuted, circus, chapman, funny, nbc, bbc, drawing, drawings, vegetation, performer, starred, celebrity, portrait, portrayed, painting, map, shows, starring, episode, night, guest, paint, fictional, mitchell, cast, featuring, series, comic, artist, kids, youtube.

Words that rhyme with sketch:
stretch, fetch, etch, vetch, wretch, retch, ketch, kvetch, cleche, fletch, letch, quetch, leche, fleche, homestretch, outstretch, dretch, meche, petsche, betsch, fetsch, kretsch, letsch, petsch, vetsch.

Adjectives that are often used to describe sketch:
biographical, brief, historical, rough, short, little, preliminary, autobiographical, slight, original, general, diagrammatic, rapid, accompanying, above, interesting, quick, mere, simple, hasty, foregoing, introductory, schematic, imperfect, excellent, detailed, dramatic, fancy, admirable, ink, freehand, rude, unfinished, annexed, vivid, primal, brilliant, graphic, neat, crude, accurate, composite, charming, colour, grammatical, humorous, descriptive, hand, nail, contemporary, briefest, faint, amusing, careful, lively, masterly, spirited, comic, biographic, merest, isometric, satirical, dimensional, clever, delightful, geographical, concise.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective sketch:
book, map, plan, maps, books, based, section, model, plans, courtesy, task, artist, toy, plot, pad, boole, the, elevation, screen.

Consonant match to sketch:
scotch, scutch, scooch, scatch.

Words that sound like sketch:
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