different between sketch vs item

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)

English

Etymology

From Middle English item, from Latin item (“also; in the same manner”). The present English meaning derives from a usage in lists, where the first entry would begin in primis (“firstly”) or imprimis, and the other entries with item (“also, moreover”). Later, people less familiar with Latin, seeing such lists, took the word "item" as meaning "a member of a list".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?t?m/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?a????m], [?a???m?]
• Hyphenation: item

Noun

item (plural items)

1. A distinct physical object.
2. (by extension, video games) An object that can be picked up for later use.
3. A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.

4. (psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.

5. A matter for discussion in an agenda.

6. (informal) Two people who are having a relationship with each other.
   • 2010, Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris, Baby

     Are we an item? Girl, quit playin' / "We're just friends," what are you sayin'?

7. A short article in a newspaper.

8. (obsolete) A hint; an innuendo.

   • A secret item was given to some of the bishops […] to absent themselves.

Synonyms

• (object): article, object, thing
• (line of text having a legal or semantic meaning):
• (matter for discussion): subject, topic
• (two people who are having a relationship with each other): couple
• (psychometrics): test/assessment question

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

item (third-person singular simple present items, present participle iteming, simple past and past participle itemed)

1. (transitive) To make a note of.

Related terms

• itemize

Adverb

item (not comparable)

1. likewise

Anagrams

• -time, METI, emit, it me, mite, time

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??t?m]

Adverb

item

1. (archaic) as well

   Synonyms: také, rovn?ž, dále, krom? toho

Further reading

• item in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• item in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Latin.

Adverb

item

1. same; in the same way

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin item.

Adverb

item

1. (law) in the same way.

Etymology 2

From English item, from Latin item.

Noun

item m (invariable)

1. (computer science) A single programmed unit.
2. (linguistics) An element of a grammatical or lexical set.

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *éy and *só. Compare ita and itidem.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?i.tem/, [??t????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?i.tem/, [?i?t??m]

Adverb

item (not comparable)

1. just like (in a comparison)

Related terms

References

• item in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• item in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• item in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Etymology

From Latin item.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?t?m/

Adverb

item

1. also, and this.

References

• “item, adv. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Noun

item

1. the same; identical.

Descendants

• English: item
• Scots: eetem

References

• “item, adv. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Middle French

Etymology

Latin.

Adverb

item

1. same; in the same way

Old French

Etymology

Latin.

Adverb

item

1. same; in the same way

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin item (“also; in the same manner”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?i.t?m/, /?i.t??j?/
• Hyphenation: i?tem

Noun

item m (plural itens)

1. item
2. A matter for discussion in an agenda or elsewhere.

3. A line of text with some meaning.