sketch

Meaning

Verb

1. To make a brief, basic drawing.
2. 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. (slang) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
8. 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

delineate

scheme

portray

illustration

adumbrate

draught

rough draft

image

layout

skit

essay

delineation

adumbration

pencil

📝

figure

trace

vignette

blueprint

chalk out

rough sketch

cartoon

plot

portrait

describe

depict

chart

💹

pattern

silhouette

portrayal

summary

illustrate

description

survey

copy

resume

stub

photograph

project

sketch map

scene

schedule

schematic

short

short essay

skeleton

sketching

sphere

storyboard

summarize

summation

summing up

synopsis

vision

work

write

✍️

block in

picture taking

thumbnail sketch

drawing dots

planning

make a drawing

sum-up

sketch plan

diagrammatic drawing

short comedy

sketch drawing

skeleton layout

abbreviate

rude drawing

apercu

art

🎨

block out

capitulation

caricature

characterization

cogitate

compendium

compose

composition

conceptualise

conceptualize

construction

🚧

contemplate

contour

designing

devise

dotting

draft copy

engineer

epitome

epitomize

exposition

figuration

filming

foretaste

frame

lay out

level

line

mapping

mark

mechanical drawing

peroration

photography

plane

plane figure

plat

preliminary sketch

profile

projection

proposal

propose

recapitulation

representation

rough

roughcast

rundown

scan

scantling

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.