sketch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɛt͡ʃ/
ipa: /sket͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: sketches
form: scetch
Etymology: 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, “I hold”). Compare scheme.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref: 2012 March 24, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106:
glosses: A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
synonyms: croquis
glosses: A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
examples: text: I have to write a character sketch for a novel study.
synonyms: pen picture
pen portrait
glosses: A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
synonyms: skit
glosses: 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.
synonyms: skit
glosses: 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.
glosses: An amusing person.
examples: text: to keep sketch
glosses: A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
examples: text: A very capable journalist, he wrote the Parliamentary sketch for the Pall Mall and the Westminster Gazette for several years.
ref: 1901, Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality:
text: The Daily Telegraph sketch concentrated on the Bishop's attack and included rebutting remarks from Lord Longford, describing the attack as monumentally unfair because Mr. Cook could not reply.
ref: 1978, Robin Callender Smith, Press law, Sweet and Maxwell:
text: Frank had won a reputation while writing the Times sketch as one of the wittiest writers and talkers in England.
ref: 2012, Andrew Gimson, Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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).
Derived terms: composite sketch
police sketch
sketch-ass
sketchbook
sketch pad
sketchwriter
sketchy
thumb-sketch
word sketch