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sketch
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)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.
- (transitive) To describe briefly and with very few details.
Translations
Noun
sketch (plural sketches)
- A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
- A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
- A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
- 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
- A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
- A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
- (informal) An amusing person.
- (slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
- (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.
- 1901, Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality
- (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)
- 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)
- sketch, skit (short comic work)
Derived terms
- cabaretsketch
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English sketch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sk?t?/
Noun
sketch m (plural sketchs)
- 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)
- sketch, skit (short comic work)
Portuguese
Noun
sketch m (plural sketches)
- 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)
- sketch (short comic work)
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likeness
English
Etymology
From Middle English liknesse, from Old English l?cness, ?el?cnes (“the quality of being like or equal; likeness; image; copy; pattern; example; parable”), from Proto-West Germanic *gal?kanass? (“likeness”), equivalent to like +? -ness. Cognate with West Frisian likenis (“likeness”), Dutch gelijkenis (“similarity; likeness; parable”), German Low German Glieknis (“form; semblance; likeness; parable”), German Gleichnis (“form; semblance; image; likeness; parable; simile”). The verb is derived from the noun. Compare also Old Norse líkneskja (“figure, image, appearance, likeness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?kn?s/
- Hyphenation: like?ness
Noun
likeness (plural likenesses)
- The state or quality of being like or alike
- 1822, Connop Thirlwall translating Ludwig Tieck, The Pictures
- Erich thought he observed a likeness between the stranger and a relative of Walther; this led them into the chapter of likenesses, and the strange way in which certain forms repeat themselves in families, often most distinctly in the most remote ramifications.
- Synonyms: similitude, resemblance, similarity
- 1822, Connop Thirlwall translating Ludwig Tieck, The Pictures
- Appearance or form; guise.
- A foe in the likeness of a friend
- Genesis, I, 26
- And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- That which closely resembles; a portrait.
- How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.
Synonyms
- similarity
Derived terms
- mislikeness
Related terms
- like
Translations
Verb
likeness (third-person singular simple present likenesses, present participle likenessing, simple past and past participle likenessed)
- (archaic, transitive) To depict.
- 1857, April 25, Alfred Lord Tennyson, letter to Reginald Southey, in Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (editors), The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II: 1851-1870, Belknap Press (1987), ?ISBN, page 171:
- I have this morning received the photographs of my two boys. The eldest is very well likenessed: the other, perhaps, not so well.
- 1868, November, advertisement, in Arthur's Home Magazine, Volume XXXII, Number 21, after page 320:
- Every member of the family [of General Grant] is as faithfully likenessed as the photographs, which were given to the artist from the hands of the General himself, have power to express.
- 1857, April 25, Alfred Lord Tennyson, letter to Reginald Southey, in Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (editors), The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II: 1851-1870, Belknap Press (1987), ?ISBN, page 171:
See also
- copy
- portrait
- analogy
- alikeness
Anagrams
- eelskins
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