Meaning

9 senses
  1. A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.

    Skizze

    эски́зeskíz, набро́сокnabrósok, скетчsketč

    на́черкnáčerk, на́рисnárys, ескі́зeskíz

  2. A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.

    набро́сокnabrósok, этюдetjud

  3. A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.

    I have to write a character sketch for a novel study.

    о́черкóčerk

    a brief literary description

  4. A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show.

    A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.

    Sketch

    скетчsketč

  5. A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.

  6. (informal)An amusing person.

  7. (Ireland, slang)A lookout; vigilant watch for something.

    to keep sketch

  8. (UK)A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.

    фельето́нfelʹjetón

  9. A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).

Examples

95 sentences
  1. Ask Tom to sketch out his plan.

    Попроси Тома окреслити свій план.

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  2. The police asked the girl to make a rough sketch of her lost dog.

    Поліція попросила дівчину зробити начерк її собаки, що пропав.

    ruПолиция попросила девочку сделать примерный набросок её пропавшей собаки.

    deDie Polizei bat das Mädchen, eine grobe Skizze von ihrem entlaufenem Hund anzufertigen.

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  3. Make a sketch of your house.

    Зроби креслення свого будинку.

    ruСделай набросок своего дома.

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  4. Tom is sketching an apple.

    Том робить ескіз яблука.

    deTom zeichnet einen Apfel.

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  5. Tom usually carries a sketch pad.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
quick freehand drawing:
Русский
By meaning 4
quick freehand drawing:
rough design or draft:
brief description:
humorous newspaper article:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
quick freehand drawing:
brief musical, dramatic or literary work etc.:

Origin

From Dutch schets or German Skizze, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancien

From Dutch schets or German Skizze, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”), from σχεδόν (skhedón, “near, nearby”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”). Compare scheme.

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Forms

plural: sketches

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • preliminary drawing for later elaboration:study
  • short descriptive summary (of events):surveyresume
  • a brief literary description:vignette
  • a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine:cartoon

Word family

15 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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