sketch

1. A hasty or undetailed drawing or painting often made as a preliminary study.
2. A brief general account or presentation; an outline.
3. 1. A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or a short story.
   2. Music. A brief composition, especially for the piano.
   3. A short, often satirical scene or play in a revue or variety show; a skit.
4. Informal. An amusing person.

[Dutch schets, from Italian schizzo, from schizzare, to splash, of imitative origin.]

noun

1. A preliminary plan or version, as of a written work: draft, outline, rough, skeleton. See planned/unplanned, words.
2. A short theatrical piece within a larger production: act, skit. See performing arts.

verb

To draw up a preliminary plan or version of: adumbrate, block in (or out), draft, outline, rough in (or out). See planned/unplanned.

sketch, a short composition, dramatic, narrative, or descriptive. In the theatre, a sketch is a brief, self‐contained dramatic scene, usually comic. As a kind of prose narrative, a sketch is more modest than a short story, showing less development in plot or characterization. The term is also applied to brief descriptions of people (the ‘character sketch’) or places.

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Sketch may refer to:

Drawing and other visual arts

• Sketch (drawing), a drawing or other composition that is not intended as a finished work, but a preliminary exploration.
• SketchUp, a 3D modeling program.
• iSketch, an online drawing game.
• Sketch 3D, a program for producing line drawings of two or three-dimensional solid objects and scenes in the PSTricks and PGF/TikZ formats.
• Skencil, a vector-based graphics program formerly called Sketch and released under the GNU Free License.
• Multi-sketch, unscripted improv sketching using a Tablet PC or digitizing tablet.

Literature and entertainment

• Sketch (literature), a literary art form that flourished in the nineteenth century, often plotless, or sometimes a very brief short story of the type today called flash fiction.
• Sketch comedy, a series of short comedic performances called sketches.
• Parliamentary sketch, a short journalistic item that describes, often satirically, debates in the UK Houses of Parliament

People and characters

• Jason Scott Sadofsky, a web site author, filmmaker and artist known under the pseudonym Sketch.
• Katie Sketch, a Canadian musician.
• Sketch (comics), a character from the Marvel Comics universe.
• Sketch (Skins character), a character in the British series Skins, played by Aimee-Ffion Edwards.

Other

• Daily Sketch, a defunct British newspaper.
• Sketch (restaurant), a restaurant, bar, and art gallery in central London.
• Sketch, a word similar in meaning to "that's bad" or "ugh."
• Sketch (mathematics), a generalization of algebraic theory.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - sketch, skitse, grundrids, udkast
v. tr. - skitsere
v. intr. - lave en skitse, spille med i en sketch

idioms:

• sketch map    situationsplan

Nederlands (Dutch)
schetsen, tekenen, beschrijven, in grote lijnen opzetten, schets, cabaretstuk

Français (French)
n. - esquisse, croquis, sketch, aperçu
v. tr. - esquisser, faire un croquis de, ébaucher
v. intr. - faire des esquisses

idioms:

• sketch map    carte faite à main levée

Deutsch (German)
n. - Skizze, Sketch
v. - skizzieren

idioms:

• sketch map    Faustskizze

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - σκαρίφημα, σκίτσο, (θεατρικό) σκετς, ιχνογράφημα, σκιαγράφηση, προσχέδιο (ζωγράφου κ.λπ.), (καθομ.) κωμικός άνθρωπος ή πράγμα
v. - σκιαγραφώ, σκιτσάρω, περιγράφω με αδρές γραμμές

idioms:

• sketch map    πρόχειρος χάρτης

Italiano (Italian)
abbozzare, schizzo, sketch

idioms:

• sketch map    pianta sommaria

Português (Portuguese)
n. - esboço (m), sumário (m), pequena peça (f) teatral
v. - esboçar

idioms:

• sketch map    mapa (m) de esboço

Русский (Russian)
зарисовка, очерк, эскиз, краткий обзор, скетч, небольшая легкая пьеса, делать набросок, писать этюд, описывать в общих чертах, изображать схематически

idioms:

• sketch map    схематическая карта

Español (Spanish)
n. - bosquejo, esbozo, esquema, croquis, dibujo, sketch, pieza corta
v. tr. - trazar, bosquejar, esbozar, diseñar, delinear
v. intr. - hacer apuntes o bosquejos, tomar parte en un sketch

idioms:

• sketch map    croquis, mapa esquemático

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - skiss, utkast, sketch (teat)
v. - skissa, göra ett utkast

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
素描, 小品, 草图, 写生, 为...绘草图, 速写, 草拟, 画素描, 画速写, 打草稿, 画草图

idioms:

• sketch map    草图, 示意图

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 素描, 小品, 草圖
v. tr. - 寫生, 為...繪草圖, 速寫, 草擬
v. intr. - 畫素描, 畫速寫, 打草稿, 畫草圖

idioms:

• sketch map    草圖, 示意圖

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 스케치, 줄거리, 별난 사람
v. tr. - 스케치하다, ~의 약기하다
v. intr. - 사생하다, 약도를 그리다, 촌극을 연출하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - スケッチ, 素描, 略図, 概略, 草案, 点描, 小品, 寸劇
v. - スケッチする, 略図を描く, 概略を立てる

idioms:

• sketch map    略図

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مخطط, مسودة كتاب مؤقته, صورة وصفيه أدبيه, مشهد مسرحي هزلي (فعل) يرسم رسما تخطيطيا‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סקיצה, מתווה, תיאור, שרטוט קל, מרשם, רשומת, מערכון, יצירה מוסיקלית קצרה‬
v. tr. - ‮שרטט, תווה, תיאר‬
v. intr. - ‮הכין שרטוטים‬

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