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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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... my life. It is only an illustration of one of its principles. I have no anecdotes of wilderness life to tell, and no sketch of the lovely rugged traits of John and Betsy Myers,—my real father and mother. I have no quest for the pretended parents, who threw me away in my babyhood, to record. They closed accounts with me when they left me on the asylum steps, and I ...

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... to him, in classroom and out. Blair was one of the first to climb the stairs of Mayer and express pleasure at the event. He found Joel seated in the window, propped up with half a dozen crimson pillows, attempting to sketch the view across the yard to send home to his sister. West was splicing a golf shaft and whistling blithely over ...

— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour

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... "If this sketch can be relied on, not more than three hundred yards," said he; "but it will not do to rely ...

— Who Goes There? • Blackwood Ketcham Benson

... opens well with Mr. Leslie Stephen's sketch of Dr. Johnson. It could hardly have been done better, and it will convey to the readers for whom it is intended a juster estimate of Johnson than either of the two essays of Lord ...

— Bunyan • James Anthony Froude

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