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# sketchbook

«sketchbook» in Mova's school dictionary: **A book of plain, often thick, paper for drawing sketches…** — 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 sketchbook, sketchbooks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A book of plain, often thick, paper for drawing sketches and quick pictures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#m1)

2) A collection of a person's sketches or quick notes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In art lessons pupils keep a sketchbook to practise drawing, collect ideas and test colours; teachers look in it to see progress. In everyday life artists carry sketchbooks to draw outside. Phrases: «sketchbook page», «keep a sketchbook».

### examples

- I drew our cat in my sketchbook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#x1)
- Bring your sketchbooks to the art lesson. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#x2)
- Her sketchbook is full of drawings of birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#x3)
- Leonardo da Vinci filled his notebooks with sketches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#x4)
- The teacher asked us to glue leaf rubbings into our sketchbooks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#x5)
- I take a small sketchbook on holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#x6)

### note

Countable; one word (sometimes «sketch book»). Not lined like an exercise book.

### In the corpora

- [Most people will not notice one wobbly line, and you can draw over it; sketchbooks are full of wobbly lines.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/12-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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