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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.

• Painting Tools and Techniques - sketch: quick, preliminary drawing used as basis for painting
• Schools, Styles, and Forms - sketch: short, usu. descriptive composition, intentionally slight, discursive in style, and familiar in tone
• Theatrical Forms and Venues - sketch: brief, comic play or skit
• Graphic Design - sketch: rough, preparatory drawing, usu. done quickly
• Entertainments and Spectacles - sketch: brief, often comic, theatrical piece

Look up Sketch, sketch, sketches, or sketching in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Sketch may refer to:

Contents 1 Drawing and other visual arts 2 Literature and entertainment 3 People and characters 4 Other

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
• 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

People and characters

• Jason Scott Sadofsky (born 1970), web site author, filmmaker and artist known under the pseudonym Sketch
• Katie Sketch (born 1977), 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
• Sketch tha cataclysm (born 1981), American hip hop artist from Waterbury, Connecticut

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
• A term for approximate streaming algorithms
• Count-Min sketch, a probabilistic sub-linear space streaming algorithm which can be used to summarize a data stream in many different ways. The algorithm was invented in 2003 by Graham Cormode and S. Muthu Muthukrishnan
• Sketch (Skins episode)
• Sketch (film), a Malayalam language film. It was released in 2007
• Sketches (album), the seventeenth album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released virtually simultaneously with another album, The Ornament Tree
• Sketches (film)
• Sketches (for My Sweetheart the Drunk)
• Architects Sketch, a Monty Python sketch, first seen in episode 17 of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The Buzz Aldrin Show"
• Flamenco Sketches, a jazz composition written by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Bill Evans
• Poetical Sketches, the first collection of poetry and prose by William Blake, written between 1769 and 1777
• Sketches of Japan, an album recorded by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in a small combo setting. It was released in 1999 by Nippon Crown Records. The title and red/yellow-themed cover are references to the Miles Davis album Sketches of Spain

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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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