sketch

Meaning

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.
2. (transitive) To describe briefly and with very few details.

Noun

1. A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
2. A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
3. A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. (informal) An amusing person.
7. (Ireland, slang) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
8. (UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
9. 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).

Adj

Sketchy, shady, questionable.

Synonyms

outline

draw

drawing

draft

design

picture

paint

plan

painting

🖼️

study

diagram

map

portray

scheme

delineate

illustration

adumbrate

delineation

skit

essay

rough draft

image

draught

layout

blueprint

describe

depict

chart

💹

adumbration

trace

rough sketch

chalk out

figure

portrait

cartoon

plot

pencil

📝

pattern

vignette

summary

description

stub

survey

illustrate

copy

resume

portrayal

project

silhouette

photograph

Translations

Skizze

esquisse

esquisser

schizzo

abbozzare

esbozo

schets

skizzieren

Entwurf

bosquejo

croquis

abbozzo

Sketch

ébauche

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skɛt͡ʃ/

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, “I hold”). Compare scheme.