Sketch
[sketʃ] or [skɛtʃ]
Definition
(noun.) preliminary drawing for later elaboration; 'he made several studies before starting to paint'.
(noun.) short descriptive summary (of events).
(noun.) a brief literary description.
(verb.) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; 'sketch the outline of the book'; 'outline his ideas'.
(verb.) make a sketch of; 'sketch the building'.
Checker: Quincy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.
(n.) To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.
(v. i.) To make sketches, as of landscapes.
Typed by Jack
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Outline, drawing, delineation, plan, skeleton, pencilling, plot, rough draft, first draft, design in outline.
v. a. [1]. Draw (in outline), chalk out, make a rough draught of.[2]. Depict, delineate, represent, portray, paint, pencil, shadow forth.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Outline, draught, skeleton, delineation,[See WICKED]
SYN:Outline, draw, depict, portray, paint, delineate,[See OUTLINE]
Typist: Thaddeus
Definition
n. a first draft of any plan or painting: an outline a short and slightly constructed play essay &c.: a short dramatic scene for representation by two persons: an artist's preliminary study of a work to be elaborated.—v.t. to make a rough draft of: to draw the outline: to give the principal points of.—v.i. to practise sketching.—adj. Sketch′able capable of being sketched effectively.—ns. Sketch′book a blank book used for sketching by an artist or writer: a printed volume of literary sketches; Sketch′er one who sketches.—adv. Sketch′ily.—n. Sketch′iness.—adj. Sketch′y containing a sketch or outline: incomplete slight.
Typist: Rex
Examples
- Miss Kate took out her sketch again, and Margaret watched her, while Mr. Brooke lay on the grass with a book, which he did not read. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The sitting was altogether very satisfactory; she was quite enough pleased with the first day's sketch to wish to go on. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It is a sort of rough sketch for use in direction of further activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A diagrammatic sketch of this remarkable machine is shown in Fig. 5, which shows a front elevation with the casings, hopper, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He deliberately scrutinised each sketch and painting. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In the beginning of his experimentation he had made the conditions of test very severe by the construction of forms similar to that shown in the sketch below. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I sat down and tried, first to sketch, then to read--but the woman in white got between me and my pencil, between me and my book. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You will have my sketches, some time or other, to look ator my tour to reador my poem. Jane Austen. Emma.
- His facility in making hasty but intensely graphic sketches is proverbial. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Dr. Franklin also planned a boat of this kind in 1785 and illustrated the same by sketches. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Mr. Hale asked to look at their sketches. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I can remember the conversation that passed far more easily than the sketches that I mechanically looked over. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- These sketches gave him a local reputation, and his friends were not surprised when at seventeen he left Lancaster to seek his fortune as a painter of portraits and miniatures in Philadelphia. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- She has already promised some further sketches. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The Edison concentrating plant has been sketched in the briefest outline with a view of affording merely a bare idea of the great work of its projector. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He sketched quickly and happily; glad at last to have the problem under his hand; glad at last actually to be engaged upon it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We have sketched too the gathering for a human sacrifice, some fifteen thousand years ago. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They came past the spot where she and Mr. Lennox had sketched. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance, said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had occurred. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Truly, if they are to be sketched--and they are very picturesque--we had better not put it off till next year. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He thought they had come too close to the bridge for safety and when the sketching was finished, he was relieved. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She stood sketching on the table-cloth, with her face clouded and set, and was silent. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I don't know,' Mrs Lammle answers, stopping, and sketching out the pattern of the paper on the wall with the point of her parasol; 'it depends. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Amy was sketching a group of ferns, and Jo was knitting as she read aloud. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- As he says it, Mrs Lammle leaves off sketching, and looks at him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As they approached it, a figure, conspicuous on a dark background of evergreens, was seated on a bench, sketching the old tree. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- SKETCH-BOOK One morning the sisters were sketching by the side of Willey Water, at the remote end of the lake. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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