A sketch is a rough drawing or outline of something, often used for planning or communicating ideas. It can also refer to a short performance or comedy routine.
When people talk about sketches, they usually mean either a quick drawing or an improvised scene. For instance, if you're trying to get your house remodeled and the architect shows you some sketches, those are probably just rough drawings of what the final product will look like. On the other hand, if someone mentions "a comedy sketch," it's likely a funny short skit they did on stage or in a TV show. Some comedians make careers out of writing and performing these kinds of comedic 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.
A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
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, a skit
An amusing person.
A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
Example: to keep sketch
A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
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).
To make a brief, basic drawing.
Example: I usually sketch with a pen rather than a pencil.
To describe briefly and with very few details.
Example: He sketched the accident, sticking to the facts as they had happened.
