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Definitions for Sketch

[1] a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially 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.
[10] a rapid drawing or painting, often a study for subsequent elaboration
[11] a brief usually descriptive and informal essay or other literary composition
[12] a short play, often comic, forming part of a revue
[13] a short evocative piece of instrumental music, esp for piano
[14] any brief outline
[15] to make a rough drawing (of)
[16] (tr often foll by out ) to make a brief description of

Words related to Sketch

blueprint, picture, account, copy, likeness, description, chart, vignette, summary, depiction, version, illustration, portrayal, piece, painting, cartoon, delineate, portray, depict, paint

Words nearby Sketch

skeptical, skepticism, skerrick, skerry, sket, sketch, sketch book, the, sketch map, sketchable, sketchbook, sketchpad

Origin of Sketch

1660–70; < Dutch schets (noun) ≪ Italian schizzo < Latin schedium extemporaneous poem, noun use of neuter of schedius extempore < Greek schédios

Other words from Sketch

sketch·er , noun
sketch·ing·ly , adverb
sketch·like , adjective
re·sketch , verb (used with object)
un·sketched , adjective
well-sketched , adjective

Word origin for Sketch

C17: from Dutch schets, via Italian from Latin schedius hastily made, from Greek skhedios unprepared

Synonyms for Sketch

account, blueprint, cartoon, chart, copy, depiction, description, illustration, likeness, painting, picture, piece, portrayal, summary, version, vignette, adumbration, compendium, configuration, delineation, design, diagram, digest, doodle, draft, figuration, figure, form, monograph, plan, report, representation, rough, shape, skeleton, survey, syllabus, aperçu, précis