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sketch
[ skech ]
noun
- a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- a rough design, plan, or draft, as of a book.
Synonyms: outline
- a brief or hasty outline of facts, occurrences, etc.:
a sketch of his life.
- a short, usually descriptive, essay, history, or story.
- a short play or slight dramatic performance, as one forming part of a vaudeville program.
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
- to make a sketch or sketches.
sketch
/ skɛtʃ /
noun
- a rapid drawing or painting, often a study for subsequent elaboration
- a brief usually descriptive and informal essay or other literary composition
- a short play, often comic, forming part of a revue
- a short evocative piece of instrumental music, esp for piano
- any brief outline
verb
- to make a rough drawing (of)
- troften foll byout to make a brief description of
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Derived Forms
- ˈsketcher, noun
- ˈsketchable, adjective
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Other Words From
- sketcher noun
- sketching·ly adverb
- sketchlike adjective
- re·sketch verb (used with object)
- un·sketched adjective
- well-sketched adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sketch1
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Example Sentences
Then they would go to a hotel afterwards and combine the parts they had remembered in one sketch.
As for the artist, the great Turner canvases, his watercolors and his sketch books are never allowed to speak.
The premise of the sketch was that sex was too spontaneous to be regulated, and the quiz show played that idea to the hilt.
Even though it was just a line in a sketch, were you like, “I am saying a line in a sketch on SNL?”
Look to “Booty Rap,” easily the best sketch on this season thus far, for proof of that.
It is impossible to believe that thus far it is anything but a sketch and intimation of what it will presently be.
The magazines sketch us a lively article, the newspapers vignette us, step by step, a royal tour.
I have an old sketch of a back view of three of them taken side by side; you see nothing but billows of fine silky hair.
They would have made a good study for an artist, had an artist been at hand to sketch them and their surroundings.
Who is not carried back to good old times as he reads this sketch of Connecticut goin' to meetin' fifty years ago?
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