| 单词 | sketch-map |
| 释义 | > as lemmassketch-map attributive and in other combinations, as sketch-block, sketch-box, sketch-map, sketch-pad [pad n.3] , sketch-paper, sketch-plan. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > surface for painting or drawing > paper > drawing book drawing book1672 flower-book1753 sketchbook1837 block1865 sketching-block1865 sketch-pad1961 1782 R. Cumberland Anecd. Painters (1787) I. 194 His figures..are slight and sketch-like. 1872 R. B. Smyth Mining Statist. 38 The geological sketch-map, which accompanies this paper. 1886 Guide Exhib. Galleries Brit. Mus. 235 A sketch-plan of the Battle of Aboukir. 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Sketch Paper, foolscap paper having faint lines crossing at right angles, producing squares of 1 inch, each divided into eight equal parts. Used for proportional drawing or sketching. 1892 Daily News 19 May 2/4 The practice of sketch artists, sketch authors, and sketch managers has been..to pay copyright fees. 1893 Photogr. Ann. 281 You must..practise with a pencil and sketch-block the..foreshortening of objects. 1902 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 779/1 The girl lingered while the painter unpacked his sketch-box. 1961 M. Spark Prime of Miss Jean Brodie iii. 64 I went to get a new sketch pad. 1981 Listener 5 Nov. 546/2 The drawings..offering imaginative ideas to any child with a sketch-pad. < as lemmas |
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