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# sketch

«sketch» in Mova's school dictionary: **A quick drawing that shows the main shapes without much…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a sketch, sketches); verb (sketch, sketches, sketched, sketching)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A quick drawing that shows the main shapes without much detail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketch/#m1)

2) A short, funny scene in a comedy show or school play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketch/#m2)

3) A short description of something with only the main points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketch/#m3)

4) (verb) To draw quickly, or to describe in a few words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketch/#m4)

5) (slang, US) Sketchy means dodgy, unsafe or suspicious. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketch/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In art lessons you sketch with a pencil before painting; in science you sketch what you see under a magnifier. In drama, groups make up sketches. In everyday slang, a sketchy place or website is not trustworthy. Phrases: a rough sketch, sketch out a plan, sketchbook.

### examples

- I made a quick sketch of the tree before painting it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketch/#x1)
- Sketch the leaf and label its parts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketch/#x2)
- Our group acted a funny sketch about a lost dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketch/#x3)
- She sketched out her plan for the treehouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketch/#x4)
- Keep your sketchbook in your bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketch/#x5)
- That website looks sketchy, so don't type your password. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketch/#x6)
- The teacher gave a short sketch of the Romans' life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketch/#x7)
- It was all a picture, a great splendid picture, which the artist had painted from a sketch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketch/#x8)

### note

Countable: sketch, sketches (add -es). Regular verb sketched. Sketchy (informal) can also mean incomplete: sketchy details.

### In the corpora

- [Some people now suspect any good art might be AI; keeping sketches shows how a picture was made.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/21-news-deepfakes-history/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sketch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.