I. noun
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an outline drawing/sketch
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Once I am happy with the outline sketch, I start painting.
freehand drawing/sketch
writing/sketch/memo/legal etc pad
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a box of paints and a sketch pad
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Keep a telephone pad and a pen to hand.
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■ ADJECTIVE
biographical
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There is an extensive bibliography and fascinating biographical sketches of the often eccentric scholars who anticipated fractals.
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The essay works best when it is dealing with people; and most of these are biographical sketches .
brief
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Even given the briefest of sketches we can begin to glimpse the wider significances of design activity considered in this manner.
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Some hints however emerge. Brief sketches of the two types of procedure may first be helpful.
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Although this is not the place to undertake a detailed introduction to the model, a brief sketch will none the less prove useful.
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A very brief sketch of some of the relevant points follows.
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Before we proceed to an analysis of that culture, a brief sketch of the salient features of contemporary Britain is necessary.
composite
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Berkeley police released a composite sketch of the man witnesses say they saw leaving the neighborhood.
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Police released a composite sketch of him Saturday; in the picture, he is wearing a knit cap.
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The composite sketches were developed from eyewitness descriptions of suspicious-looking people at the scene.
quick
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This morning l drew a whole series of quick sketches of bowls of fruit.
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She with his quick sketch of her as Madonna ascending in folds upon modest folds of garments.
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With a few well-chosen words and a quick sketch or two, Bryan sorted them out for us.
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Pat focuses the color camera on the flow, and I make a quick sketch of the mound in my notebook.
rough
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Also, try to make a very rough sketch of the rooms on each floor.
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Make a rough sketch of a parachute on the board.
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Draw a rough sketch and then translate them all in a permanent fashion to the wall.
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Cantor picked up his paper napkin and drew a rough sketch of a cell membrane.
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She sighed again and sorted through the rough sketches .
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Yoyo studied the rough sketch a moment.
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I enclose details of how to find the school and a rough sketch map showing the route from the A6.
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book
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In the morning Jack took out a sketch book and made some drawings of his friend Arthur Shaw.
character
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His character sketches of the principal players are sharp, perceptive and often very funny.
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The two pieces with which Orlandersmith opens are rich character sketches that evolve seamlessly into moving, self-contained mini-dramas.
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Not so much as a sociology essay, or an urban character sketch in London's Evening Standard.
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Then there are character sketches to provide the raw material for creating the individuals who inhabit these tales.
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If your client knows the defendant's witnesses they should be asked to give a character sketch of them.
map
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I also enclose a sketch map showing the exact location.
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Generations of observers slowly improved their sketch maps of Mars.
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Make with the sketch maps of the area.
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I enclose details of how to find the school and a rough sketch map showing the route from the A6.
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Each page has a colour photograph of the mountain, a sketch map and a description of the route.
pad
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Daisy had brought her sketch pad , but found it difficult to capture the action and hold on to a straining Ethel.
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Susan was already off the window scat, looking for a place to tuck her sketch pad .
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Sheltering her sketch pad under her shirt, Daisy looked helplessly around.
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Drawings torn from a sketch pad were tacked to the plank walls, a straw rug partially covered the floor.
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There, before his eyes, lay one large and one small sketch pad .
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If he sits too long, he pulls out a sketch pad and begins drawing.
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She heard Comfort pick up the sketch pad again and simply lay, letting her draw whatever she liked.
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His knapsack and sketch pad and sleeping bag lay on the floor, candy wrappers scattered around them.
pencil
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What is this pencil sketch that looks like a ground plan of the radio factory?
thumbnail
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This thumbnail sketch of a complicated web of negotiations says some unexpected things about Mr Major.
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A thumbnail sketch of their functions and modes or organisation was also given.
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A very tightly written little thumbnail sketch .
■ VERB
draw
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I found it difficult to take a rubbing so, despite my lack of artistic ability, I've drawn a sketch .
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Cantor picked up his paper napkin and drew a rough sketch of a cell membrane.
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Another type draws three-dimensional sketches like wire frames.
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In stage three, for example, the remote viewer draws an initial sketch of the target.
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I had drawn a fairly creditable sketch of the castle when, as I hoped, I heard voices behind me.
give
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Even given the briefest of sketches we can begin to glimpse the wider significances of design activity considered in this manner.
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While this first chapter has outlined what that criticism is, the next gives sketches of half a dozen critical types.
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It was absolutely no good just giving them a sketch and expecting them to expand on it using their own initiative.
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If your client knows the defendant's witnesses they should be asked to give a character sketch of them.
make
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Miranda was now able to make some sketches of the action as well, as she knew its shape.
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She had come there from Tokyo to see us off and make sketches of our departure.
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Also, try to make a very rough sketch of the rooms on each floor.
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It was a picturesque little place, and Nina began to make sketches .
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Many entries in his diaries describe dramatic storms over the mountains when he was out making sketches .
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He made two sketches in as many days and eventually completed a number of watercolors.
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He did locate the apple orchard from which Liebermann had composed a large picture, and he made a sketch of it.
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Pat focuses the color camera on the flow, and I make a quick sketch of the mound in my notebook.
write
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Cornelius Nepos wrote a most sympathetic sketch of Hannibal.
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He also wrote sketches , essays and newspaper articles.
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A very tightly written little thumbnail sketch .
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thumbnail sketch/portrait
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A thumbnail sketch of their functions and modes or organisation was also given.
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A very tightly written little thumbnail sketch.
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But written instructions in the blank spaces of books themselves do survive and so do tiny marginal thumbnail sketches to indicate subjects.
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This thumbnail sketch of a complicated web of negotiations says some unexpected things about Mr Major.
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a brief sketch of the life and times of Herman Melville
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a comedy sketch show
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Gabriella did a quick sketch of her baby daughter.
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I've done a rough sketch of how to get to the church.
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I thought your sketches of the garden were very attractive.
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Phil drew a sketch to show us what the new school would look like.
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She opened her folder and took out a sketch of her mother.
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The architect did a sketch of how the building will look when it's finished.
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Berkeley police released a composite sketch of the man witnesses say they saw leaving the neighborhood.
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Brief sketches of the two types of procedure may first be helpful.
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By 2008 the artists' sketches of a red-roofed, neo-Levantine financial district will have become reality.
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He was wasting her money as he handled these sketches.
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In 1853 Delacroix recorded a discussion in which it was proposed that Durieu might publish his sketches by means of photography.
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Official sketches show a small warren of rooms, lit by artificial lights and stuffed with compact biological systems.
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Soon the blurred sketch of the view will disappear and in its place will come an entanglement of lights.
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
in
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And on that subject, how much of the unknown and unknowable can I sketch in ?
out
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But Labour, too, was disappointing in its reluctance to sketch out what an alternative science policy might look like.
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He has three other plays sketched out in his mind but not yet committed to paper.
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The remarks in this section only sketch out a province for which a proper theory of discourse deixis might provide an account.
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She went down on her hands and knees to sketch out a full-scale dia-gram of the barrel she wanted.
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In Chapter 8, I sketched out three different levels of rationality: groundedness, enlightenment and emancipation.
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At one point, Janowitz sketches out the tedious details of an overblown mishap at the local library.
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Therefore it remains for us to sketch out a more articulated theory based upon Bukharin's ideas of disproportionality and dis-equilibrium.
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In the last paper I sketched out profiles for academic scholars.
■ NOUN
outline
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I have tried to sketch in outline why I think this to be wrong.
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Before you begin, look at the way Katherine Mansfield sketched the outlines for her last stories.
■ VERB
begin
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As they talked, Modigliani began to sketch her.
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Susan was followed on the program by Father Dougherty, who began his presentation by sketching a continuum on the blackboard.
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I shall also begin to sketch the model that will be implemented within the Chart architecture.
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I sat down and began sketching on the outside of the package.
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We can best begin to sketch the positive characteristics of this activity by reversing the usual procedures.
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He sat by the river, sketching.
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Maggie grabbed a piece of paper and quickly sketched the bird before it flew away.
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Yeltsin sketched an aggressive battle plan for winning back his countrymen.
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But Labour, too, was disappointing in its reluctance to sketch out what an alternative science policy might look like.
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Finally, we sketch the evolution of Marxism after Marx.
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He sat against the wall sketching on a pad with colored pencils, a picture of telephone poles.
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I started sketching, but my hand shook.
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The departmental profiles that follow sketch the research interests of their members.
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The image of the war that I sketched earlier continues to color the efforts of many honest people.
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The remarks in this section only sketch out a province for which a proper theory of discourse deixis might provide an account.
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Truc, normally so good natured, was shouting angrily at Nina who was sitting on the raft and sketching the scene.