sketch
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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, “to hold”). Compare scheme.
Inflected forms:
form: sketches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sketching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sketched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sketched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scetch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: sketches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scetch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: more sketch
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sketch
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: scetch
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: To make a brief, basic drawing.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I usually sketch with a pen rather than a pencil.
gloss: To describe briefly and with very few details.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He sketched the accident, sticking to the facts as they had happened.
gloss: A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
pos: noun
gloss: A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
pos: noun
examples: I have to write a character sketch for a novel study.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: An amusing person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
slang
examples: to keep sketch
gloss: A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: A very capable journalist, he wrote the Parliamentary sketch for the Pall Mall and the Westminster Gazette for several years.
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.
Frank had won a reputation while writing the Times sketch as one of the wittiest writers and talkers in England.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
gloss: Sketchy, shady, questionable.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: 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.
gloss: Sketchy, shady, questionable.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Derived words: resketch
sketchability
sketchable
sketch out
unsketched
biosketch
composite sketch
foresketch
police sketch
sketch-ass
sketchbook
sketcher
sketchist
sketchlike
sketchmaster
sketch pad
sketchwriter
sketchy
thumb-sketch
word sketch
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: скеч
roman: skeč
lang: Catalan
word: esquetx
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 素描
roman: sùmiáo
lang: Dutch
word: sketch
lang: Esperanto
word: skeĉo
lang: Finnish
word: sketsi
lang: French
word: sketch
lang: French
word: saynète
lang: German
word: Sketch
lang: Greek
word: σκετς
roman: skets
lang: Greek
word: νούμερο
roman: noúmero
lang: Indonesian
word: sketsa
lang: Irish
word: sceitse
lang: Italian
word: sketch
lang: Italian
word: numero
lang: Italian
word: quadro
lang: Italian
word: scenetta
lang: Japanese
word: スケッチ
roman: suketchi
lang: Korean
word: 스케치
roman: seukechi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sketsj
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: sketsj
lang: Polish
word: skecz
lang: Portuguese
word: sketch
lang: Portuguese
word: esquete
lang: Russian
word: скетч
roman: sketč
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ске̏ч
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: skȅč
lang: Slovene
word: skeč
lang: Spanish
word: sketch
lang: Spanish
word: sainete
lang: Swedish
word: sketch
lang: Welsh
word: braslun