— 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; schets (n.) schizzo schedium extemporaneous poem, n. use of neut. of schedius extempore schédios ]
Syn. 2. outline. 5. skit, act, routine. 6. draw, outline, design, rough out, delineate, represent. See depict .