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skɛtʃsketch
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
sketch
A sketch is a rough, suggestive presentation of anything, whether graphic or literary, commonly intended to be preliminary to a more complete or extended treatment. An outline gives only the bounding or determining lines of a figure or a scene; a sketch may give not only lines, but shading and color, but is hasty and incomplete. The lines of a sketch are seldom so full and continuous as those of an outline, being, like the shading or color, little more than indications or suggestions according to which a finished picture may be made; the artist's first representation of a sunset, the hues of which change so rapidly, must of necessity be a sketch. Draft and plan apply especially to mechanical drawing, of which outline, sketch, and drawing are also used; a plan is strictly a view from above, as of a building or machine, giving the lines of a horizontal section, originally at the level of the ground, now in a wider sense at any height; as, a plan of the cellar; a plan of the attic. A mechanical drawing is always understood to be in full detail; a draft is an incomplete or unfinished drawing; a design is such a preliminary sketch as indicates the object to be accomplished or the result to be attained, and is understood to be original. One may make a drawing of any well-known mechanism, or a drawing from another man's design; but if he says, "The design is mine," he claims it as his own invention or composition. In written composition an outline gives simply the main divisions, and in the case of a sermon is often called a skeleton; a somewhat fuller suggestion of illustration, treatment, and style is given in a sketch. A lawyer's brief is a succinct statement of the main facts involved in a case, and of the main heads of his argument on points of law, with reference to authorities cited; the brief has none of the vagueness of a sketch, being sufficiently exact and complete to form, on occasion, the basis for the decision of the court without oral argument, when the case is said to be "submitted on brief." Compare DESIGN.
Synonyms:
brief, design, draft, drawing, outline, picture, plan, skeleton
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
sketch, studynoun
preliminary drawing for later elaboration
"he made several studies before starting to paint"
Synonyms:
cogitation, subject, report, resume, discipline, subject area, cartoon, work, study, subject field, written report, survey, field, field of study, bailiwick, vignettesketch, vignettenoun
a brief literary description
sketch, survey, resumenoun
short descriptive summary (of events)
Synonyms:
resume, study, sight, cartoon, view, vignette, survey, curriculum vitaecartoon, sketchverb
a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine
Synonyms:
resume, toon, study, survey, cartoon, animated cartoon, vignettesketch, chalk outverb
make a sketch of
"sketch the building"
sketch, outline, adumbrateverb
describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
"sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas"
Synonyms:
limn, adumbrate, outline, intimate, insinuate, draft, delineate, chalk out
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
sketchnoun
Synonyms:
outline, drawing, delineation, plan, skeleton, pencilling, plot, rough draft, first draft, design in outlinesketchverb
Synonyms:
draw (in outline), chalk out, make a rough draught ofsketchverb
Synonyms:
depict, delineate, represent, portray, paint, pencil, shadow forth
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "sketch":
skit, sketches, biographical, biographique, portrait, biography, sketchbook, outline, esquisse, drawing
Nicknames
List of known nicknames for "Sketch":
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#79 | view | |
#125 | work | |
#224 | report | |
#245 | design | |
#259 | subject | |
#480 | plan | |
#508 | study | |
#574 | field | |
#631 | picture | |
#1288 | survey | |
#2298 | draft | |
#2436 | brief | |
#3290 | biography | |
#3350 | draw | |
#3445 | paint | |
#3548 | resume | |
#3671 | drawing | |
#3738 | cartoon | |
#4976 | sight | |
#5440 | outline | |
#5491 | discipline | |
#5895 | portrait | |
#9197 | intimate | |
#11392 | sketch | |
#13647 | skeleton | |
#13725 | biographical | |
#14775 | sketches | |
#15416 | toon | |
#20732 | depict | |
#24770 | portray | |
#28973 | vignette | |
#34563 | skit | |
#36472 | draught | |
#37013 | delineation | |
#40581 | sketchbook | |
#43763 | delineate | |
#107601 | insinuate | |
#121057 | bailiwick | |
#203729 | cogitation | |
#206581 | limn |
How to use sketch in a sentence?
This was a form of live theater. It was the popular entertainment, it was sketch artists, talent musicians and comedians.
Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski:
On the death bed, this person communicated the information together with a sketch, where this might possibly be.
Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Graham:
Management clearly has gone all out over the last two quarters to aggregate video content and begin to sketch out a business case.
I see this proposal as a path forward that achieves the objective of getting token purchasers the information they need, but it is also just a sketch - a work in progress - that requires productive engagement from the public.
Was this sketch just freehanded, something he did in 50 seconds, or is it something he really sat down and thought deeply about? Its difficult to know he knew how the physical world works.
Translations for sketch
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- رسم تخطيطيArabic
- esbossos, esborrany, esbós, esquetxCatalan, Valencian
- skica, načrtnout, náčrtCzech
- skizzieren, Skizze, SketchGerman
- σκίτσο, νούμεροGreek
- skizo, skiziEsperanto
- esquicio, bosquejar, boceto, esbozar, sketch, bosquejo, esbozoSpanish
- skitsi, sketsi, hahmotelma, luonnosFinnish
- ébauche, esquisser, sketch, esquisseFrench
- skicc, vázlatHungarian
- schizzo, numero, descrizione, scenetta, resoconto, quadro, sketch, scarabocchio, macchiettaItalian
- スケッチJapanese
- 스케치Korean
- delineo, describo, perscripta, īnfōrmātiō, adumbroLatin
- huahuaMāori
- sketsjNorwegian
- schetsDutch
- sketsjNorwegian Nynorsk
- skecz, szkicPolish
- esquete, esboço, rascunhar, sketchPortuguese
- schițăRomanian
- наброса́ть, набра́сывать, эскиз, очерк, набросок, скетчRussian
- nacrt, skeč, скеч, skicaSerbo-Croatian
- skissSwedish
- வரைப்பேனாTamil
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