sketch

«sketch» in Mova's school dictionary: A quick drawing that shows the main shapes without much… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a sketch, sketches); verb (sketch, sketches, sketched, sketching)

meaning for a pupil

1) A quick drawing that shows the main shapes without much detail. tree →

2) A short, funny scene in a comedy show or school play. tree →

3) A short description of something with only the main points. tree →

4) (verb) To draw quickly, or to describe in a few words. tree →

5) (slang, US) Sketchy means dodgy, unsafe or suspicious. tree →

sense in the lessons

In art lessons you sketch with a pencil before painting; in science you sketch what you see under a magnifier. In drama, groups make up sketches. In everyday slang, a sketchy place or website is not trustworthy. Phrases: a rough sketch, sketch out a plan, sketchbook.

examples

• I made a quick sketch of the tree before painting it. tree →
• Sketch the leaf and label its parts. tree →
• Our group acted a funny sketch about a lost dog. tree →
• She sketched out her plan for the treehouse. tree →
• Keep your sketchbook in your bag. tree →
• That website looks sketchy, so don't type your password. tree →
• The teacher gave a short sketch of the Romans' life. tree →
• It was all a picture, a great splendid picture, which the artist had painted from a sketch. tree →

note

Countable: sketch, sketches (add -es). Regular verb sketched. Sketchy (informal) can also mean incomplete: sketchy details.

In the corpora

• Some people now suspect any good art might be AI; keeping sketches shows how a picture was made.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sketch» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.