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sketch

English

Alternative forms

  • scetch (archaic)

Etymology

From Dutch schets, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek ??????? (skhédios, made suddenly, off-hand), from ?????? (skhedón, near, nearby), from ??? (ékh?, I hold). Compare scheme.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sk?t?/
  • Rhymes: -?t?

Verb

sketch (third-person singular simple present sketches, present participle sketching, simple past and past participle sketched)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.
  2. (transitive) To describe briefly and with very few details.

Translations

Noun

sketch (plural sketches)

  1. A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
  2. A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
  3. A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
  4. 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.
    Synonym: skit
    1. A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
    2. A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
  5. (informal) An amusing person.
  6. (slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
  7. (Britain) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
    • 1901, Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality
      A very capable journalist, he wrote the Parliamentary sketch for the Pall Mall and the Westminster Gazette for several years.
    • 1978, Robin Callender Smith, Press law, Sweet and Maxwell
      The Daily Telegraph sketch concentrated on the Bishop's attack and included rebutting remarks from Lord Longford, describing the attack as monumentally unfair because Mr. Cook could not reply.
    • 2012, Andrew Gimson, Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson, Simon and Schuster ?ISBN
      Frank had won a reputation while writing the Times sketch as one of the wittiest writers and talkers in England.
  8. (category theory) 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).

Related terms

  • sketchbook
  • sketchy
  • sketchwriter

Descendants

  • German: Sketch

Translations

Adjective

sketch (comparative more sketch, superlative most sketch)

  1. Sketchy, shady, questionable.

Further reading

  • sketch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sketch, from Dutch schets.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sk?t?/
  • Hyphenation: sketch

Noun

sketch m (plural sketches, diminutive sketchje n)

  1. sketch, skit (short comic work)

Derived terms

  • cabaretsketch

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sketch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sk?t?/

Noun

sketch m (plural sketchs)

  1. sketch, skit (short comic work)

Further reading

  • “sketch” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sketch from Dutch schets, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek ??????? (skhédios, made suddenly, off-hand)

Noun

sketch m (invariable)

  1. sketch, skit (short comic work)

Portuguese

Noun

sketch m (plural sketches)

  1. Alternative form of esquete

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sketch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?sket??/, [?sket??]
  • IPA(key): /es?ket??/, [es?ket??]

Noun

sketch m (plural sketches)

  1. sketch (short comic work)

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article

English

Etymology

From Middle English article, from Old French article, from Latin articulus (a joint, limb, member, part, division, the article in grammar, a point of time), from Latin artus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?értus (that which is fit together; juncture, ordering), from the root *h?er- (to join, fit (together)).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???t?k?l/, [???t??k???]
  • (General American) IPA(key): /???t?k?l/, /???t?kl?/, [??(?)???k?]
  • Rhymes: -??(?)t?k?l

Noun

article (plural articles)

  1. A piece of nonfictional writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.
  2. An object, a member of a group or class.
  3. (grammar) A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). In some languages the article may appear as an ending (e.g. definite article in Swedish) or there may be none (e.g. Russian, Pashto).
  4. A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. or, in the plural, the entire document seen as a collection of these.
  5. A genuine article.
  6. A part or segment of something joined to other parts, or, in combination, forming a structured set.
    • 1785, William Paley, Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
      upon each article of human duty
    • 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia
      the different articles which compose the blood
  7. (derogatory, dated) A person; an individual.
    a shrewd article
  8. (archaic) A wench.
  9. (dated) Subject matter; concern.
    • a very great revolution that happened in this article of good breeding
    • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year
      This last article perhaps will hardly be believed.
  10. (dated) A distinct part.
  11. (obsolete) A precise point in time; a moment.
    • 1683, John Evelyn, Diary, 13 July 1683.
      This fatal news coming to Hick's Hall upon the article of my Lord Russell's trial, was said to have had no little influence on the jury and all the bench to his prejudice.
    • 1805, Charles Hall, The Effects of Civilisation on the People in European States, Original Preface:
      [] who has more opportunities of acquiring the knowledge, than a physician? He is admitted into the dwellings of all ranks of people, and into the innermost parts of them; he sees them by their fireside, at their tables, and in their beds; he sees them at work, and at their recreations; he sees them in health, in sickness, and in the article of death; []
    • 1634, William Habington, Castara
      each article of time

Derived terms

Related terms

  • articulate
  • articulation

Translations

Verb

article (third-person singular simple present articles, present participle articling, simple past and past participle articled)

  1. (transitive) To bind by articles of apprenticeship.
    to article an apprentice to a mechanic
    • 1876, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Vicar of Morwenstow, Chapter LIV
      When the boy left school at Liskeard, he was articled to a lawyer, Mr. Jacobson, at Plymouth, a wealthy man in good practice, first cousin to his mother; but this sort of profession did not at all approve itself to Robert's taste, and he only remained with Mr. Jacobson a few months.
  2. (obsolete) To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles or accusations.
    • 1665, Samuel Pepys, Diary, March 1665
      At noon dined alone with Sir W. Batten, where great discourse of Sir W. Pen, Sir W. Batten being, I perceive, quite out of love with him, thinking him too great and too high, and began to talk that the world do question his courage, upon which I told him plainly I have been told that he was articled against for it, and that Sir H. Vane was his great friend therein.
    • 1793, Manning of the Navy Act (Statutes of George III 33 c. 66) ¶VIII[2]:
      [] if the Captain of any Merchant ship under convoy shall wilfully disobey Signals [] he shall be liable to be articled against in the High Court of Admiralty []
  3. To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
    • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
      If [] all his errors and follies were articled against him, the man would seem vicious and miserable.

Derived terms

  • articled clerk

Further reading

  • article in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • article in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • clairet, lacerti, recital

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin articulus. Compare the inherited doublet artell.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /???ti.kl?/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /?r?ti.kl?/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /a??ti.kle/

Noun

article m (plural articles)

  1. article (a piece of nonfictional writing)
  2. (grammar) article

Derived terms

  • article determinat
  • article definit

Further reading

  • “article” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “article” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  • “article” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “article” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French article, borrowed from Latin articulus. Compare the inherited doublet orteil.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a?.tikl/

Noun

article m (plural articles)

  1. article (a piece of nonfictional writing)
  2. (grammar) article
  3. merchandise, sales article
  4. section (of a law)
  5. (dated) joint, articulation
  6. moment (only in the phrase à l'article de la mort)

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “article” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin articulus.

Pronunciation

Noun

article m (plural articles)

  1. article (a piece of nonfictional writing)

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin articulus.

Noun

article m (oblique plural articles, nominative singular articles, nominative plural article)

  1. (anatomy) joint; articulation
  2. (religion) article (of faith)
  3. article (clause in a legal document or treaty)

Usage notes

  • Occasionally used as a feminine noun

Descendants

  • French: article

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (article, supplement)
  • article on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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