单词 | sketch |
释义 | sketch —sketcher, n. —sketchingly, adv. —sketchlike, adj. /skech/, n. 1. a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, esp. 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.: a sketch of his life. 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. v.t. 6. to make a sketch of. 7. to set forth in a brief or general account: He sketched his own part in the affair. 8. Metall. (in a steel mill or the like) to mark (a piece) for cutting. v.i. 9. to make a sketch or sketches. [1660-70; < D schets (n.) << It schizzo < L schedium extemporaneous poem, n. use of neut. of schedius extempore < Gk schédios] Syn. 2. outline. 5. skit, act, routine. 6. draw, outline, design, rough out, delineate, represent. See depict. |
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