sketchbook

«sketchbook» in Mova's school dictionary: A book of plain, often thick, paper for drawing sketches… — 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 sketchbook, sketchbooks)

meaning for a pupil

1) A book of plain, often thick, paper for drawing sketches and quick pictures. tree →

2) A collection of a person's sketches or quick notes. tree →

sense in the lessons

In art lessons pupils keep a sketchbook to practise drawing, collect ideas and test colours; teachers look in it to see progress. In everyday life artists carry sketchbooks to draw outside. Phrases: «sketchbook page», «keep a sketchbook».

examples

• I drew our cat in my sketchbook. tree →
• Bring your sketchbooks to the art lesson. tree →
• Her sketchbook is full of drawings of birds. tree →
• Leonardo da Vinci filled his notebooks with sketches. tree →
• The teacher asked us to glue leaf rubbings into our sketchbooks. tree →
• I take a small sketchbook on holiday. tree →

note

Countable; one word (sometimes «sketch book»). Not lined like an exercise book.

In the corpora

• Most people will not notice one wobbly line, and you can draw over it; sketchbooks are full of wobbly lines.

Trees and pragmatics

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