different between sketch vs propose

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 proposen, from Anglo-Norman proposer (verb), propos (noun), Middle French proposer (verb) , propos (noun), from Latin pr?p?n?, pr?p?n?re, with conjugation altered based on poser. Doublet of propound.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???p??z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???po?z/
• Rhymes: -??z

Verb

propose (third-person singular simple present proposes, present participle proposing, simple past and past participle proposed)

1. (transitive) To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.

   Synonyms: put forth, suggest, (rare) forthput

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     President Moon Jae-in proposed the plan this week during a meeting with government officials, his spokesman said.

2. (intransitive, sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person's hand in marriage.

3. (transitive) To intend.
   • 1859, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England, Preface (Google preview):

     I propose to relate, in several volumes, the history of the people of New England.
4. (obsolete) To talk; to converse.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1:

     HERO. Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour;

     There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice

     Proposing with the prince and Claudio

5. (obsolete) To set forth.
   • 1616, George Chapman (translator), Homer's Iliad, book 11:

     . . . so weighty was the cup,

     That being propos'd brimful of wine, one scarce could lift it up.

Usage notes

• In use 1, this is sometimes a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).
• In use 3, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive.
• For more information, see Appendix:English catenative verbs
• Compared to to suggest, to propose is more deliberate and definite. To suggest is merely to mention, while to propose is to have a definite plan and intention.

Derived terms

• proposal
• proposement

Related terms

• proponent
• proposition

Translations

Noun

propose (plural proposes)

1. (obsolete) An objective or aim.

Anagrams

• opposer, poopers

French

Verb

propose

1. inflection of proposer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• opposer

Italian

Verb

propose

1. third-person indicative past historic of proporre

Anagrams

• propeso