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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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scantling
English
Etymology
Alteration of scantillon +? -ling, from Old French escantillon (“sample pattern”) (Modern French échantillon). Later senses also influenced by similarity with scant.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?skantl??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?skæntl??/
Noun
scantling (plural scantlings)
- (chiefly in the plural) The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft.
- (archaic) A small portion, a scant amount.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.204:
- For one may have particular knowledge of the nature of one river, and experience of the qualitie of one fountaine, that in other things knowes no more than another man: who neverthelesse to publish this little scantling, will undertake to write all of the Physickes.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Honor and Reputation
- Such as exceed not this scantling, to be solace to the sovereign and harmless to the people.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- Reducing them to narrow scantlings.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.204:
- A small, upright beam of timber used in construction, especially less than five inches square.
- (uncountable) Timber in the form of small beams and pieces.
- 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
- Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a corner of one of the galleries.
- 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
- (obsolete) A rough draught; a crude sketch or outline.
- (obsolete) A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
Translations
See also
- scantlings
Adjective
scantling (comparative more scantling, superlative most scantling)
- Not plentiful; small; scanty.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)
Anagrams
- cantlings
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