different between literary vs sketch

English

Etymology

From French littéraire.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /?l?t????i/, /?l?t(?)?i/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?l?t???(?)?i/, [???????(?)?i]

Adjective

literary (comparative more literary, superlative most literary)

1. Relating to literature.
   • c. 1768, Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare

     He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.

2. Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
   • 1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. York

     in the literary as well as fashionable world

3. Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
4. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
5. Bookish.

Synonyms

• bookly

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• literary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• literary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• trilayer

English

Alternative forms

• scetch (archaic)

Etymology

From Dutch schets, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek ??????? (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”), from ?????? (skhedón, “near, nearby”), from ??? (ékh?, “I hold”). Compare scheme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Verb

sketch (third-person singular simple present sketches, present participle sketching, simple past and past participle sketched)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.

2. (transitive) To describe briefly and with very few details.

Translations

Noun

sketch (plural sketches)

1. A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
2. A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
3. A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
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.

   Synonym: skit

   1. A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
   2. A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
5. (informal) An amusing person.
6. (slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.

7. (Britain) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
   • 1901, Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality

     A very capable journalist, he wrote the Parliamentary sketch for the Pall Mall and the Westminster Gazette for several years.

   • 1978, Robin Callender Smith, Press law, Sweet and Maxwell

     The Daily Telegraph sketch concentrated on the Bishop's attack and included rebutting remarks from Lord Longford, describing the attack as monumentally unfair because Mr. Cook could not reply.

   • 2012, Andrew Gimson, Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson, Simon and Schuster ?ISBN

     Frank had won a reputation while writing the Times sketch as one of the wittiest writers and talkers in England.

8. (category theory) 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).

Related terms

• sketchbook
• sketchy
• sketchwriter

Descendants

• German: Sketch

Translations

Adjective

sketch (comparative more sketch, superlative most sketch)

1. Sketchy, shady, questionable.

Further reading

• sketch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sketch, from Dutch schets.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?t?/
• Hyphenation: sketch

Noun

sketch m (plural sketches, diminutive sketchje n)

1. sketch, skit (short comic work)

Derived terms

• cabaretsketch

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sketch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?t?/

Noun

sketch m (plural sketchs)

1. sketch, skit (short comic work)

Further reading

• “sketch” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sketch from Dutch schets, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek ??????? (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”)

Noun

sketch m (invariable)

1. sketch, skit (short comic work)

Portuguese

Noun

sketch m (plural sketches)

1. Alternative form of esquete

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sketch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sket??/, [?sket??]

• IPA^(key): /es?ket??/, [es?ket??]

Noun

sketch m (plural sketches)

1. sketch (short comic work)