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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

... disposition of the people to the measures which I am fully persuaded it is their interest and duty to adopt, and which need no other force to accomplish them than the force of being felt. But as every hint may be useful, I shall throw out a sketch, and leave others to make such improvements upon it as to ...

— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine

... found distributed throughout this monograph under the various headings to which such ceremonies belong. Thus the child ceremony is placed under the heading "birth," the death feast in the chapter on death, the warriors' sacrifice in that portion of this sketch which treats of the warrior. For the present only the minor and more general ceremonies that may be performed separately, or that may enter into the major ceremonies as subrites, will ...

— The Manbos of Mindano - Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir • John M. Garvan

... could sketch," said Miss Greeb regretfully, "and I am no artist, Mr. Denzil, but I think I can ...

— The Silent House • Fergus Hume

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— Demos • George Gissing

... his writings give us little insight. As a good writer should, he keeps his private affairs out of his book, but how much we should have been interested in knowing something of the man's shore life! Mr. Clark Russell in his admirable sketch of Dampier, for example, takes it for granted that he never married, at any rate during his sea career. Dampier himself tells us he was married, and gives us a very good idea of when, but he so seldom, after once getting to work upon his narrative, gives us a glimpse of himself that it is easily ...

— The Naval Pioneers of Australia • Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery

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