Sketch

Definition: Sketch

Sketch

Noun

1. Preliminary drawing for later elaboration; "he made several studies before starting to paint".

2. A brief literary description.

3. Short descriptive summary (of events).

4. A humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine.

Verb

1. Make a sketch of.

2. Describe roughly or briefly; "sketch the outline of the book".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sketch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Fine Arts

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sketch

Description

Delineation; (representation); sketch; monograph; minute account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account; narration, recital, rehearsal, relation.

Form

Verb: form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture; cast, stamp; build; (construct).

Painting

Verb: paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in pencil; Noun: paint in oils; Noun: stencil; depict; (represent).

Picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas; oil painting; fresco, cartoon; easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft; pencil; drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch, outline, study.

Plan

Verb: plan,scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch; devise, invent; (imagine); set one's wits to work; spring a project; fall upon, hit upon; strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out; lay down a plan; shape out a course, mark out a course; predetermine; concert, preconcert, preestablish; prepare; hatch, hatch a plot concoct; take steps, take measures.

Sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche, brouillon; rough cast, rough draft, draught copy; copy; proof, revise.

Representation

Copy; drawing, sketch, drought, draft; plot, chart, figure, scheme.

Crosswords: Sketch

French (sketch, skit), German (sketch, skit), Italian (sketch), Manx (sketch ), Spanish (sketch), Swedish (sketch).

Now I'm 'arrestin' this entire show on three counts: one, acts of self-conscious behavior contrary to the 'Not in front of the children' Act, two, always saying 'It's so and so of the Yard' every time the fuzz arrives and, three, and this is the cruncher, offences against the 'Getting out of sketches without using a proper punchline' Act, four, namely, simply ending every bleedin' sketch by just having a policeman come in and wait a minute (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman)

The two owls for the counting sketch. They're right over there (Greg the Bunny; writing credit: Francesco Barilli)

Sketch the trees and the daffodils (Vincent; performing artist: Don McLean)

Rough Sketch of a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe (1968)

De Gaulle Sketch (1958)

Sketch til Apolloteatret (1939)

The Inventor's Sketch (1913)

Sketch Pad (2001)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings With Some of the Indian Tribes (reference)

• Paul and His Theology: A Brief Sketch (reference)

• Philosophy and the Christian Faith: A Historical Sketch from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (reference)

• Sara Midda's South of France: A Sketch Book (reference)

• The Etch a Sketch Book (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Sketch (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sketch & Storage Bench (reference)

• Sketch Artist (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Kakaki Sketch (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Sketch 2.0 for Palm [DOWNLOAD] (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Plane table party working near Mt. Desert, Maine Sketch by Chief of Party Cleveland Rockwell. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Pen and pencil sketch of Sulu Sea. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Oldest known sketch of Coast Survey sounding operations Watercolor by James Madison Alden - 1857 Coast Survey Brig FAUNTLEROY in background. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Alaska, 1898. Sketch by McFarland. Skiff hydro sounding operations. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Sailor sounding from merchantman - Nineteenth Century Sketch by Gordon Grant. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Pole signal with tin cone for reflecting sunlight Constructed by survey crews under direction of Ferdinand Hassler Sketch by Assistant John Farley - view looking to south across Long Island Sound. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Tripod signal with tin cone for reflecting sunlight At signal West Base, west end of Great Fire Island Base Line Constructed by survey crews under direction of Ferdinand Hassler Sketch by Assistant John Farley - view looking to east. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Field sketch of signal pole on tree stump Sketch by Cephas Sinclair. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Sketch of a Coast Survey camp site. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The old SURVEYOR in Alaska in 1931. Ink sketch by _ Bean. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Here is my sketch of the fourth, who was a baby

Let us not prolong this sketch.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "sketch": area sketch ♦ humorous sketch ♦ panoramic sketch ♦ primal sketch ♦ rough sketch ♦ sketch block ♦ sketch book ♦ sketch from nature ♦ sketch in ♦ sketch map ♦ sketch out ♦ sketch pad ♦ sketch plan ♦ speech sketch ♦ take a sketch of ♦ thumb sketch ♦ thumbnail sketch. Additional references.

Beginning with "sketch": sketch-book, sketch-books, sketch-club, sketch-leaf, sketch-like, sketch-map, sketch-pad, sketch-pads, sketch-show, sketch-titles, sketch-writer.

Ending with "sketch": Auto-sketch, character-sketch.

Afrikaans

skets (design, outline). (various references)

Albanian

skicoj (design, draft, draught, lay down, plat, rough, touch off), skicë (cartoon, chart, dash, delineation, design, draft, draught, essay, figure, freehand, outline, plan, profile, rough), skemë (delineation, diagram, map, schema, scheme, skeleton), skeç (skit), konspekt (abridgement, abridgment, abstract, compendium, conspectus, epitome, note, scheme, summary, syllabus, synopsis). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسودة (draft, notes, outline, rough copy), ‏مخطط (barred, blueprint, controlled, guided, planned, projects, ruled, schema, scheme, streaked, striped, stripy), ‏مشهد مسرحي هزلي, ‏وضع مخططا, ‏سكتش, ‏صمم (block out, deafness, design, devise, engineer, mold, mould, pattern, plan, premeditate, project, promise, resolve, rough, will), ‏صورة وصفية أدبية, ‏رسم تصوير (delimitation, designing, drawing, painting, picture, tracing), ‏رسم (block, charge, daub, depict, depiction, describe, description, design, draft, draught, draw, drawing, etch, etching, exhibit, figure to oneself, formalize, image, impost, lay, lay out, limn, line, mark out, pattern, pencil, picture, plotter, portray, portrayal, protract, scrawl, tableau, trace, trace over, weave). (various references)

Basque

marraztu (draw to, sketch to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скеч, скица (contour, cure, delineation, design, diagram, draft, draught, freehand drawing, object, outline, plan, plat, plot, schema, scheme, scream, skeleton, study, vignette), скицирам (adumbrate, delineate, line, outline, plan, plot, rough-hew, trace, vignette), рисувам (depict, design, draw, figure, image, limn, paint, picture), кратък разказ, кратко описание, кратко есе, кратка музикална композиция, очертавам (adumbrate, contour, define, delineate, line, mark out, outline, trace out), нахвърлям (adumbrate, jot down, outline, pounce, skeletonize, throw off), план (blueprint, conception, dart, diagram, draft, draught, game, idea, layout, map, plan, plat, plot, program, programme, project, proposal, schedule, schema, scheme, set up, skeleton, view). (various references)

Chinese 

草稿 (outline), 素描 , 剪影 (silhouette). (various references)

Czech

skica (cartoon, skeleton), skeè, resumé (abstract, resume, summary), náèrtek, medailon (medallion), fejeton (essay). (various references)

Danish

planlægge (make a project of, plan). (various references)

Dutch

uitstippelen (plan), schetsen (plan), schets (design, drawing, outline), ontwerpen (make a project of, plan). (various references)

Esperanto

skizo (design, outline), skizi (plan). (various references)

Faeroese

strikumynd (design, outline), upprit (design, outline). (various references)

Farsi 

پیش نویس چیزی رااماده کردن , پیش نویس ازمایشی , ملخص (Compendious, Gist, Summary), مسوده کردن , مسوده (Draft, Minute), نقشه ساده , زمینه (Background, Base, Basis, Conspectus, Context, Design, Ground, Groundwork, Outline, Root, Tendency, Terrain, Theme), طرح (Cast, Diagram, Draft, Knack, Layout, Machination, Model, Module, Outline, Pattern, Plan, Plat, Plot, Project, Projection, Proposal, Schema, Scheme, Skeleton), خلاصه (Abstract, Compendium, Condensation, Digest, Epitome, Extract, Outline, Resume, Scantling, Schema, Short, Sum, Summary, Summation, Synopsis, Upshot), انگاره (Idea, Tenet), شرح (Circumstance, Description, Explanation, Exposition, Geography, Gloss, Innuendo, Legend, Narrative, Recitation, Relation, Statement, Story, Tale, Treatise). (various references)

Finnish

luonnos (draft). (various references)

French

esquisser, esquisse, croquis (rough sketch). (various references)

German

Skizze (delineation, design, outline, plan, sketching, trace), skizzieren (adumbrate, delineate, draft, drafts, outline, plan, to outline, trace), Entwurf (bill, blueprint, concept, design, diagram, draft, drawing, framework, outline, plan, plane, plot, project, scheme, specification), entwerfen (clone, contrive, create, depict, design, designing, devise, draft, draw, draw up, form, make a project of, map out, outline, plan, project, sketching, style, to clone, to conceptualize, to delineate, to draw up, to style). (various references)

Greek 

σκίτσο (cartoon). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתוה (draft, outline), מרשם (chart, diagram, draft, receipt, registration, scheme), לתוות (design, lay out, outline, plot), לשרטט (adumbrate, block, draft, draught, draw), להתוות (adumbrate, delineate), לסרטט (design, draw, outline), תאור (account, depiction, description, narration, outline, portrayal, representation), תכנית (design, layout, map, plan, program, programme, project, prospectus, schedule, scheme, type), תרשים (chart, design, diagram, graph, outline, plan), שרטוט (drawing, plan, schema, stripe), סקיצה, סרטוט (draft, drawing, outline). (various references)

Hungarian

skicc (rough sketch), vázlat (adiabatic chart, adumbration, analysis chart, cadre, delineation, design, draft, draft plan, groundwork, line diagram, line drawing, outline, outlines, scheme, survey, theme, thumb-nail sketch), karcolat (etchwork). (various references)

Indonesian

menggurati, guratan (facial scrinkle, outline), denah (blue print, grond plan), buram (blueprint, dark, dull, gloomy, not clear, plan, unregistered), bagan (design, draft, program, schema, skeleton). (various references)

Italian

schizzo (dab, draft, shell, spatter, splash, spurt, squirt, stain), progetto (arrangement, design, device, diagram, layout, outline, plan, plane, project, scheme), progettare (design, devise, lay, make, make a project of, meditate, plan, project), disegno (aim, design, drawing, outline, pattern, picture, plan, scheme, tracery), abbozzo (draft, outline, scheme, skeleton), abbozzare (clone, delineate, design, draft, draught, draw, outline, rough out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

点描 (dotting, drawing dots). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ずあん (a design), がこう (artist, painter), ふんぽん (copy), スケッチ , エスキス , てんびょう (dotting, drawing dots), え (bay, depending on, drawing, -fold, grip, handle, inlet, painting, picture, -ply, type of beefsteak plant, understanding). (various references)

Korean 

밑그림. (various references)

Manx

sketchal (sketching), sketch. (various references)

Occitan

dessenhar (draw). (various references)

Pig Latin

etchskay.(various references)

Portuguese

esboço (delineation, design, draft, draught, essay, framing, layout, lineation, outline, picture, plan, schema, vignette), bosquejar (diagram, outline, plan, sum up). (various references)

Romanian

studiu (education, examination, learning, memoir, schooling, studies, study, studying, survey), schiţã (adumbration, contour, delineation, design, draft, draught, drawing, line, outline, plan, plot, shorter, sketching), schiţa (adumbrate, block in, block out, chalk out, chart, delineate, design, draw, figure, outline, pencil, plan, rough draft, take a sketch of), schemã (chart, diagram, draft, lay out, network, outline, plan, schedule, schema, scheme, set up), scheci, scenetã, fragment (chip, excerpt, extract, fragment, ort, passage, piece, portion, scrap, snatch), concepe (cogitate, compose, conceive, conceive of, devise, draft, gender, hatch, ideate, imagine, indite, rough draft, think, word, write), contura (appear, contour, define, delineate, outline, skeletonize), creiona, crochiu, descrie (depict, describe, image, paint, picture, represent, write), descriere (delineation, depiction, description, portraiture, portrayal, presentment, relation, representation), desen (depiction, design, designing, draft, draught, drawing, free hand, pad, pattern), desena (design, draw, draw out, figure, pencil, picture, profile, trace), canava (canvas, groundwork), face un studiu, trasa (assign, draw, indicate, trace), planşã (drawing), rezumat (abridgement, abridgment, abstract, argument, brief, capsule, compendium, conclusion, digest, docket, epitome, recapitulation, resume, summary, synopsis), face o schiţã (outline, rough, take a sketch of). (various references)

Russian 

эскиз (design, draft, outline, rough draft), схема (cadre, circuitry, diagram, layout, network, pattern, plan, schema, schemata, schematics, scheme, sketches), скетч (skit), набросок (draft, drawing, jotting, minute, outline, skeleton), зарисовка, делать эскиз. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skicirati (adumbrate, block out, draft, outline), skica (diagram, draft, drawing), skeč (skit), približan obračun, ocrtati (adumbrate, define, delineate, outline). (various references)

Spanish

dibujo (design, designing, drawing, figure, pattern, picture), croquis (rough 2) thumbnail, rough sketch), bosquejo (design, outline, stub), bosquejar (adumbrate, block in, block out, draft, draught, outline). (various references)

Swedish

utkast (design, draft, draught, minute, outline, plan, rough, rough draft, skeleton), skiss (delineation, draft, layout, outline, plat), teckning (design, drawing), skissera (block out, delineate, draft, outline, rough out, trace). (various references)

Thai

การอธิบายอย่างคร่าวๆ, วาดภาพร่าง, ภาพร่าง (draft). (various references)

Turkish

skeç (vignette), taslak (conspectus, design, diagram, draft, draft plan, draught, drawing, outline, plan, rough, roughcast, schema, silhouette, skeleton, study, tracing, visual), taslağını yapmak (roughcast), taslağını çizmek (adumbrate, delineate, draft, draught, draw, draw out, outline, rough in, rough out, roughcast), kroki yapmak, kroki (chart, plan, visual), kabataslak çizmek (sketch in, sketch out), kabataslak çizim, kabaca açıklamak, kısa hikâye (anecdote, novella, short story), kısa güldürü, eskizini çizmek, eskiz (drawing, rough copy, study). (various references)

Turkmen 

taslama (draft), oзerk (essay), юekel (form, outline 1). (various references)

Ukrainian

скетч (skit), робити начерк (adumbrate), начерк (bosh, outline), змальовувати у загальних рисах, замальовка, ескіз (outline). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bức vẽ phác. (various references)

Welsh

braslun (outline). (various references)

skariphasthai. (various references)

inchoante, inchoasti, inchoat, inchoationis, inchoaverunt, inchoavi, inchoavit. (various references)

schizzo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sketch": sketchbook, sketchbooks, sketched, sketcher, sketchers, sketches, sketchier, sketchiest, sketchily, sketchiness, sketchinesses, sketching, sketchy. (additional references)

Words ending with "sketch": resketch. (additional references)

Words containing "sketch": resketched, resketches, resketching. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sketch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asketh, Ksudach, scetch, sdetch, sietch, Skeoch, sketche, skitch, skootch, skutch, stetch. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chest, hecks, ketch, khets.

-2 letters: etch, eths, heck, hest, hets, khet, sect.

-3 letters: eth, hes, het, sec, set, she, the, tsk.

-4 letters: eh, es, et, he, sh.

+1 letter: ketches, sketchy.

+2 letters: chirkest, chokiest, hotcakes, huckster, ketchups, kitchens, kitsches, klatches, kvetches, resketch, sketched, sketcher, sketches, thickens, thickest, thickets, thickset.

+3 letters: chalkiest, chatchkes, checklist, checkouts, cheekiest, chinkiest, chunkiest, hackliest, headstock, heartsick, hucksters, klatsches, latchkeys, shortcake, sketchers, sketchier, sketchily, sketching, thickness, thicksets, thwackers, tuckahoes, whackiest.

+4 letters: aftershock, alkahestic, artichokes, buckwheats, cheapskate, checklists, checkmates, headstocks, hitchhikes, huckstered, kvetchiest, resketched, resketches, shortcakes, sketchbook, sketchiest, superthick, tchotchkes, thickeners, thickheads.