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Sketch

noun
/skɛtʃ/
Word Frequency: 10.4

Definitions

1.nounA rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
2.nounA rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
3.nounA brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
4.nounA 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 skit
5.nounAn amusing person.
6.nounA lookout; vigilant watch for something.
"to keep sketch"
7.nounA humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
8.nounA 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).
9.verbTo make a brief, basic drawing.
"I usually sketch with a pen rather than a pencil."
10.verbTo describe briefly and with very few details.
"He sketched the accident, sticking to the facts as they had happened."
11.adjectiveSketchy, shady, questionable.

Synonyms

outlinecartoonchalk outstudysurveyvignetteresumeadumbratedrawingpictureesquissedrafting

Rhymes With

kvetchfetchquetchdretchstretchletchretchwretch
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