sketch, study
(noun) preliminary drawing for later elaboration; “he made several studies before starting to paint”
sketch, survey, resume
(noun) short descriptive summary (of events)
cartoon, sketch
(noun) a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine
sketch, vignette
(noun) a brief literary description
sketch, outline, adumbrate
(verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; “sketch the outline of the book”; “outline his ideas”
sketch, chalk out
(verb) make a sketch of; “sketch the building”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sketch (third-person singular simple present sketches, present participle sketching, simple past and past participle sketched)
(ambitransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.
(transitive) To describe briefly and with very few details.
sketch (plural sketches)
A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
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, a skit
a brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano
a brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
(informal) An amusing person.
(slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
(UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
(category theory) 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).
sketch (comparative more sketch, superlative most sketch)
Sketchy, shady, questionable.
Source: Wiktionary
Sketch, n. Etym: [D. schets, fr. It. schizzo a sketch, a splash (whence also F. esquisse; cf. Esquisse.); cf. It. schizzare to splash, to sketch.]
Definition: An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.
Syn.
– Outline; delineation; draught; plan; design.
– Sketch, Outline, Delineation. An outline gives only the bounding lines of some scene or picture. A sketch fills up the outline in part, giving broad touches, by which an imperfect idea may be conveyed. A delineation goes further, carrying out the more striking features of the picture, and going so much into detail as to furnish a clear conception of the whole. Figuratively, we may speak of the outlines of a plan, of a work, of a project, etc., which serve as a basis on which the subordinate parts are formed, or of sketches of countries, characters, manners, etc., which give us a general idea of the things described. Crabb.
Sketch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sketched; p. pr. & vb. n. Sketching.] Etym: [Cf D. schetsen, It. schizzare. See Sketch, n.]
1. To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.
2. To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.
Syn.
– To delineate; design; draught; depict.
Sketch, v. i.
Definition: To make sketches, as of landscapes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
