Definitions for sketch

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Spelling: [skech]

IPA: /skɛtʃ/

Sketch is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in sketch (cehkst).

Definitions for sketch

noun

1. a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
2. a rough design, plan, or draft, as of a book.
3. a brief or hasty outline of facts, occurrences, etc.:
4. a short, usually descriptive, essay, history, or story.
5. a short play or slight dramatic performance, as one forming part of a vaudeville program.

verb (used with object)

1. to make a sketch of.
2. to set forth in a brief or general account:
3. Metallurgy. (in a steel mill or the like) to mark (a piece) for cutting.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a sketch or sketches.

Origin of sketch

1660-70; Dutch schets (noun) ≪ Italian schizzo Latin schedium extemporaneous poem, noun use of neuter of schedius extempore Greek schédios

Examples for sketch

Mr. Cream took the MS. of John's sketch from his pocket and spread it on the table.

We must now close our sketch of those diversified and pleasant volumes.

Even though it was just a line in a sketch, were you like, “I am saying a line in a sketch on SNL?”

You must have lost that sketch after you reached San Francisco.

The premise of the sketch was that sex was too spontaneous to be regulated, and the quiz show played that idea to the hilt.

Then they would go to a hotel afterwards and combine the parts they had remembered in one sketch.

So I wrote that sketch with Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider.

I arose from my chair and examined the sketch of the starving mountaineer.

"I wanted to have a talk to you about that sketch," he said to John.

As for the artist, the great Turner canvases, his watercolors and his sketch books are never allowed to speak.