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English

Alternative forms

• musicall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English musical, from Old French [Term?], from Medieval Latin m?sic?lis, from Latin m?sica (“music”) +? -?lis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mju.z?.k?l/

Adjective

musical (comparative more musical, superlative most musical)

1. Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.

2. Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.

3. Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.

4. Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.
   • 1962, Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play, Simon and Schuster ?ISBN, page 34

     Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

   • 2004, Mike Bright, A Dream Realized: A Collection of Poems by Cowboy Mike Bright, Xulon Press ?ISBN, page 341

     Musical seats upon an airplane is not a game I recommend.

   • 2006, Evelyn Palfrey, The Price of Passion, Simon and Schuster ?ISBN, page 441

     “Sounds like y'all are playing musical houses. How did you convince your mama to move to Austin?”

   • 2011, Leonard James Schoppa, The Evolution of Japan's Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change, University of Toronto Press ?ISBN, page 14

     Parties were splitting, forming, merging, and dissolving in such rapid succession that the game of musical chairs seemed to describe what was going on better than any known theory of political science.

   • 2014, Tyler McMahon, Kilometer 99: A Novel, St. Martin's Griffin ?ISBN, page 138

     Among my small circle of college friends, and even more so among the volunteers here, couples are so often changing places, people playing musical lovers.

Derived terms

Related terms

• music
• musicality
• musically

Translations

Noun

musical (plural musicals)

1. A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.
2. (probably archaic or obsolete) A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /mu.zi?kal/

Adjective

musical (masculine and feminine plural musicals)

1. musical

Derived terms

Noun

musical m (plural musicals)

1. musical

Further reading

• “musical” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “musical” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “musical” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “musical” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

Noun

musical c (singular definite musicalen, plural indefinite musicaler or musicals)

1. A musical.

Inflection

Alternative forms

• musikal

Derived terms

• film-musical

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.zi.kal/

Adjective

musical (feminine singular musicale, masculine plural musicaux, feminine plural musicales)

1. musical

Derived terms

• chaises musicales
• comédie musicale
• scie musicale

Related terms

• musique

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• musclai

Galician

Adjective

musical m or f (plural musicais)

1. musical; of or pertaining to music

Synonyms

• (musical): músico

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mjuzik?l]
• Hyphenation: mu?si?cal
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

musical (plural musicalek)

1. musical (a show or film which involves singing, dancing and musical numbers)

Declension

References

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [muzik?al]

Adjective

musical

1. musical (relating to music)

Synonyms

• music

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

Noun

musical m (invariable)

1. musical

Occitan

Adjective

musical m (feminine singular musicala, masculine plural musicals, feminine plural musicalas)

1. musical (of or relating to music)
2. musical (pleasing to the ear)

Derived terms

• musicalitat

Related terms

• musica

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myzi?kal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

musical

1. musical

Related terms

• mùsica

Polish

Etymology

From English musical, from Middle English musical, from Old French, from Medieval Latin m?sic?lis, from Latin m?sica + -?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mju?zi.kal/

Noun

musical m inan

1. (film, music, theater) musical (stage performance, show or film)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) musicalowy

Further reading

• musical in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• musical in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

música (“music”) +? -al (“adjective-forming suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.zi.?ka?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mu.zi.?kaw/
• Hyphenation: mu?si?cal

Adjective

musical m or f (plural musicais, comparable)

1. musical (of or relating to music)
2. musical (pleasing to the ear)

   Synonyms: melodioso, melódico

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.

Noun

musical m (plural musicais)

1. musical (stage performance, show or film that focuses on singing and dancing)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.

Related terms

• músico

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /musi?kal/, [mu.si?kal]
• Hyphenation: mu?si?cal

Adjective

musical (plural musicales)

1. musical

Noun

musical m (plural musicales)

1. musical

Derived terms

Related terms

• música

Further reading

• “musical” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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)