sketch

== English == === Alternative forms === scetch (archaic) === Etymology === From Dutch schets or German Skizze, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”), from σχεδόν (skhedón, “near, nearby”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”). Compare scheme. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American, Standard Canadian) IPA(key): /ˈskɛt͡ʃ/, [ˈskɛt͡ʃ] (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈsket͡ʃ/, [ˈsket͡ʃ] (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈske̝t͡ʃ/, [ˈske̝t͡ʃ] Rhymes: -ɛtʃ Hyphenation: sketch === Verb === sketch (third-person singular simple present sketches, present participle sketching, simple past and past participle sketched) (ambitransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing. (transitive) To describe briefly and with very few details. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === sketch (plural sketches) 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. Synonym: croquis A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline. Synonyms: pen picture, pen portrait A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show. Synonym: skit A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano. A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story. (informal) An amusing person. (slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something. (UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature. (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). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → German: Sketch → Italian: sketch → Portuguese: esquete (Brasilian), sketch (European) → Turkish: skeç ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === sketch (comparative more sketch, superlative most sketch) (informal) Sketchy, shady, questionable. (informal, black metal, of a band) Fascist or with right-wing or neo-Nazi ties; NSBM. === Further reading === sketch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from English sketch, from Dutch schets. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /skɛtʃ/ Hyphenation: sketch === Noun === sketch m (plural sketches, diminutive sketchje n) sketch, skit (short comic work) ==== Derived terms ==== cabaretsketch == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from English sketch. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /skɛtʃ/ === Noun === sketch m (plural sketchs) sketch, skit (short comic work) === Further reading === “sketch”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Italian == === Etymology === Borrowed from English sketch from Dutch schets, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈskɛt͡ʃ/ Rhymes: -ɛtʃ === Noun === sketch m (invariable) sketch, skit (short comic work) === References === == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English sketch. === Noun === sketch m (plural sketches) alternative form of esquete Synonym: rábula === Further reading === “sketch”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “sketch”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English sketch. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsket͡ʃ/ [ˈsket͡ʃ], /esˈket͡ʃ/ [esˈket͡ʃ] Rhymes: -etʃ === Noun === sketch m (plural sketches) skit; sketch (short comic work) ==== Usage notes ==== According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed. === Further reading === “sketch”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 == Swedish == === Etymology === Borrowed from English sketch, from Dutch schets, from Italian schizzo. Doublet of skiss. === Noun === sketch c sketch, skit (short comic work) ==== Declension ==== ==== See also ==== skiss === Further reading === “sketch”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)