English Dictionary

sketch

/skɛt͡ʃ/

noun

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.

I made a quick sketch of the landscape.

意味（1）

A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.

Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.

意味（2）

A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.

意味（3）

A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.

I have to write a character sketch for a novel study.

意味（4）

A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.

意味（5）

A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.

意味（6）

(informal) An amusing person.

意味（7）

(slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.

to keep sketch

意味（8）

(UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.

A very capable journalist, he wrote the Parliamentary sketch for the Pall Mall and the Westminster Gazette for several years.

意味（9）

(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).