sketch

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Synonyms: ketch, spetch, skitch, skeoch, setch, skeech

Antonyms: ketch, spetch, skitch, skeoch, setch, skeech

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Verb

1. {{lb|en|ambitransitive}} To make a brief, basic drawing.
2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To describe briefly and with very few details.

Noun

1. A rapidly executed freehand [[drawing]] that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
2. A rough [[design]], [[plan]], or [[draft]], as a rough draft of a book.
3. A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general [[presentation]] or [[outline]].
4. 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.
5. {{lb|en|informal}} An amusing person.
6. {{lb|en|slang|Ireland}} A [[lookout]]; vigilant watch for something.
7. {{lb|en|UK}} A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of [[metaphor]], [[paraphrase]] and [[caricature]].
8. {{lb|en|category theory}} A formal [[specification]] of a [[mathematical structure]] or a [[data type]] described in terms of a [[graph]] and [[diagrams]] (and [[cone]]s (and [[cocone]]s)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are [[graph homomorphism]]s 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).

Adjective

1. {{lb|en|informal}} [[sketchy|Sketchy]], [[shady]], [[questionable]].

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