sketch
a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
a rough design, plan, or draft, as of a book.
a brief or hasty outline of facts, occurrences, etc.: a sketch of his life.
a short, usually descriptive, essay, history, or story.
a short play or slight dramatic performance, as one forming part of a vaudeville program.
to make a sketch of.
to set forth in a brief or general account: He sketched his own part in the affair.
Metallurgy. (in a steel mill or the like) to mark (a piece) for cutting.
to make a sketch or sketches.
Origin of sketch
1synonym study For sketch
Other words for sketch
Other words from sketch
- sketcher, noun
- sketch·ing·ly, adverb
- sketchlike, adjective
- re·sketch, verb (used with object)
- un·sketched, adjective
- well-sketched, adjective
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How to use sketch in a sentence
After another apology where Wallen admitted he had “some growing up to do,” he made a triumphant return to SNL in December, where he was rewarded with a sketch that poked fun at him violating pandemic safety measures.
Country star Morgan Wallen suspended by record label, dropped by hundreds of radio stations after using racial slur | Emily Yahr | February 3, 2021 | Washington PostSNL more pointedly lampooned the violent mob who stormed the Capitol in another sketch that found a suburban game night interrupted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
SNL skewers Marjorie Taylor Greene, the vaccine rollout and GameStop, reminding us that things are still very bad | Bethonie Butler | January 31, 2021 | Washington PostPay the minimum donation of $65 per year or round up to $100 and receive a thank you gift that includes a mounted pencil sketch of your elephant and a crochet toy made by Zambian women at Little Ndaba, a local toy company.
A virtual menagerie: How conservation and rescue efforts can connect us with wildlife around the world | Andrea Sachs | January 15, 2021 | Washington PostHe’s also been selling his original sketches and paintings on his website to help offset the mask-making costs.
St. James's Park is a series of pictures; the sketcher, too, will find many convenient seats, as well as charming views.
Highways and Byways in London | Mrs. E. T. Cook.
Very many spots of this kind are there that court the sketcher.
You want to know her wrongs—and you say that I am a sketcher from life.
Its smooth and shapely bole does not tempt the sketcher's eye alone.
Miscellanea | Juliana Horatia EwingAll of a sudden the Writer and the Sketcher found themselves thrust into the presence of He-who-must-be-obeyed.
Punch's Almanack for 1890 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for sketch
/ (skɛtʃ) /
a rapid drawing or painting, often a study for subsequent elaboration
a brief usually descriptive and informal essay or other literary composition
a short play, often comic, forming part of a revue
a short evocative piece of instrumental music, esp for piano
any brief outline
to make a rough drawing (of)
(tr often foll by out) to make a brief description of
Origin of sketch
1Derived forms of sketch
- sketchable, adjective
- sketcher, noun
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