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noun

Sketch 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.

Synonyms: 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.

verb

Sketch v. t. (past & past part. sketched; pres. part. sketching)

To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.

To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.

Synonyms: To delineate; design; draught; depict.

Sketch v. i. To make sketches, as of landscapes.

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Etymology of 'Sketch'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sketch" Quotes from Famous Books

... years since I had seen this woman, and not a letter had passed between us. I had sent her a book now and then, and she had sent me a sketch or two. ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

... filmy, pretty, lacy woman's things that he knew she had spread out for her own sensuous delight of contemplation. He fetched up for a moment at a drawing easel, his reiterant cry checked on his lips, and threw a laugh of recognition and appreciation at the sketch, just outlined, of an awkward, big-boned, knobby, weanling colt caught in the act of madly whinneying for ...

— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London

... contributed by one member of the band, on to-day's trip, we think our readers might appreciate a slight character sketch of each of our "Staff." There are ...

— Argentina From A British Point Of View • Various

... is his next resting-place. This town, which is now under the government of the King of Sardinia, was at one time an independent principality; and M. Dumas gives a lively sketch of the vicissitudes which the little state has undergone, mimicking, as it has, the movements of great monarchies, and being capable of boasting even of its revolution and its republic. During the reign of Louis XIV. the ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 • Various

... still seated before the table at which she had been working on her sketch, raised her head at the noise of the opening door. The invading manner of their entrance gave her the sense of something she had never seen before. She knew them well. She knew the woman better than ...

— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad

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