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sketched - 2 dictionary results

sketch

  [skech]
Use sketched in a Sentence
–noun
1. a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, esp. a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
2. a rough design, plan, or draft, as of a book.
3. a brief or hasty outline of facts, occurrences, etc.: a sketch of his life.
4. a short, usually descriptive, essay, history, or story.
5. a short play or slight dramatic performance, as one forming part of a vaudeville program.
–verb (used with object)
6. to make a sketch of.
7. to set forth in a brief or general account: He sketched his own part in the affair.
8. Metallurgy. (in a steel mill or the like) to mark (a piece) for cutting.
–verb (used without object)
9. to make a sketch or sketches.
Origin:
1660–70; < D schets (n.) ≪ It schizzo < L schedium extemporaneous poem, n. use of neut. of schedius extempore < Gk schédios

Related forms:
sketcher, noun
sketch⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
sketchlike, adjective

Synonyms:
2. outline. 5. skit, act, routine. 6. draw, outline, design, rough out, delineate, represent. See depict.
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sketch   (skěch)   
n.  
  1. A hasty or undetailed drawing or painting often made as a preliminary study.
  2. A brief general account or presentation; an outline.
    1. A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or a short story.
    2. Music A brief composition, especially for the piano.
    3. A short, often satirical scene or play in a revue or variety show; a skit.
  4. Informal An amusing person.
v.   sketched, sketch·ing, sketch·es

v.   tr.
To make a sketch of; outline.
v.   intr.
To make a sketch.

[Dutch schets, from Italian schizzo, from schizzare, to splash, of imitative origin.]
sketch'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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