Word Finder - sketch

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A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.

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A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.

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A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.

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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

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An amusing person.

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A lookout; vigilant watch for something.

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to keep sketch

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A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.

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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).

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To make a brief, basic drawing.

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I usually sketch with a pen rather than a pencil.

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To describe briefly and with very few details.

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He sketched the accident, sticking to the facts as they had happened.

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Sketchy, shady, questionable.

She ripped off a piece of sketch paper and wrote down her address.

He nodded as she plopped down at the desk and began to sketch on the paper, explaining as she drew.

She started with a sketch of A'Ran and found she couldn't focus on anything else.

She waved her band in front of the access pad to her room and entered, crossing to grab her sketch book.

Scharer in his sketch of Nabataean history appended to Gesch.

A remarkable example is a paragraph from Miss Keller's sketch in the Youth's Companion.

He showed Gabriel the drawing of the different symbols with a sketch of the sun on one end and the ground on the other.

Of the above the first is the best general sketch and is rich in notes; the second somewhat chauvinistic but excellently written; the third the best work for scholars; the seventh; eighth and eleventh are valuable as being by contemporaries.

Before I left Boston, I was asked to write a sketch of my life for the Youth's Companion.

Comfortable in the plush office chair, she propped her feet up on her desk and continued to sketch until the picture began to look as she wanted it to.

He started to sketch something, paused then leaned forward with more interest and continued.

One of the easels held the painting of the orchid and on the other sat a sketch of him.

Such a system of classification, although convenient, is not the most natural one, and a sketch of the system which better expresses the relationships between the various subdivisions is given here.

The order in which the various subjects are treated in the following sketch is the natural succession from fundamental to dependent facts, which corresponds also to the evolution of the diversities of the earth's crust and of its inhabitants.

This is illustrated by the four sketch maps shown in fig.

It was past dark fall when she finished, and she gazed at her last sketch, intrigued by it.

He took the sketch pad she handed him and awkwardly pushed the pages around, unaccustomed to a book.

Yet his first attempt was a mere sketch.

In the preceding sketch we have given a necessarily brief account of the historical development of analytical chemistry in its main branches.

It remains only to sketch the main features of German history in later years.

But this sketch of possible migrations is largely conjectural, and authorities are not even agreed as to the branch of the Turanians to which the Huns should be referred.

The restoration of the general features of the temple of this and the immediately succeeding periods has been greatly facilitated by the discovery of a sketch map on a fragment of a clay tablet.

A sketch map by Barbara Nuttall of medieval Thornhill shows Deadman 's Lane climbing the fault scarp of the Edge.

Scorpion venom The sketch writers are the best read chroniclers of the passing parliamentary pageant.

One of Kiernan 's creations in the sketch show Chewin ' the Fat is a short-tempered man always blowing his fuse.

I have a framed sketch drawn by a fan in the audience at Kettering.

Let me now give you a rough sketch of Neill 's life.

Indeed there are only eight lines constituting a thumbnail sketch of the first couple of decades of Mrs Cronin 's life.

Most sites will send a sketch for your approval before beginning on the final project.

Then sketch out a plan on a piece of paper.

Sketch out your frame design to scale on a piece of large paper.

Sketch out a floor plan - You don't have to be a modern day VanGogh to do this.

For example, if your first draft has your desk on the right wall, draw another sketch with it placed on the left or center wall.

Google Sketch Up - Google Sketch Up is a free, 3D design tool, and adapting to use for your bedroom design is possible.

Reviews are mixed on Google Sketch Up - some people love it, while some people find it hard to use.

Most people start interior design projects by grabbing some pencils and paper and starting to sketch.

Having the chance to see a 3-D image of your proposed design ideas, rather than trying to imagine it in your head or envision it with the help of a simple sketch on a piece of paper, is incredibly useful for any design project.

Once you have ordered your design program, the site instructs you how to sketch your floorplan, how to measure your room and furniture and how to photograph your room and furniture.

Make a quick sketch of the arrangement to use as a guide when hanging the frames on the wall.

Nocturnelle, a deep frosty metallic purple, also goes well with Ego, as does Style Snob, a pink-brown with a hint of gold, and Sketch, an intense burgundy-plum color with red flecks.

Is there a sketch or a magazine layout I want to use as the inspiration for my project?

I drew a pencil sketch of Tanner, designed and installed a memory garden and participated in constructing a shadow box with my husband to display his angels, butterflies and stuffed animals.

When you're making a layout based on a published scrapbooking sketch, use a large sticker to replace one or more of the photo squares.

Plautus, though, like Terence, he takes the first sketch of his plots, scenes and characters, from the Attic stage, is yet a true representative of his time, a genuine Italian, writing before the genius of Italy had learned the restraints of Greek art.

The above sketch of Hippocratic medicine will make it less necessary to dwell upon the details relating to subsequent medical schools or sects in ancient times.

After Hippocrates the progress of medicine in Greece does not call for any special remark in such a sketch as this, but mention must be made of one great name.

The English school of medicine was also profoundly stirred by the teachings of the two brothers William and John Hunter, especially the latter - who must therefore be briefly mentioned, though their own researches were chiefly concerned with subjects lying a little outside the limits of this sketch.

See Life and Writings of Wilbur Fisk (New York, 1842), edited by Joseph Holdich, and the biography by George Prentice (Boston, 1890), in the American Religious Leaders Series; also a sketch in Memoirs of Teachers and Educators (New York, 1861), edited by Henry Barnard.

This sketch would, of course, have to be.

It would be useless to attempt to trace in a brief sketch the history of the legal principles embodied in the documents of Anglo-Saxon law.