[skech] 
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 9. | to make a sketch or sketches. |
