different between way vs sketch

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: w?, IPA^(key): /we?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophones: weigh, wey, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English way, wey, from Old English we? (“way; path”), from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *we??-. Doublet of voe.

Alternative forms

• waye, waie (both obsolete)

Noun

way (plural ways)

1. (heading) To do with a place or places.
   1. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
      • the season and ways very improper for his Majesty's forces to march so great a distance

      • "It's a long way to Tipperary, / it's a long way to go." [It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, a marching and music hall song by Jack Judge and Henry "Harry" James Williams, popularized especially by British troops in World War One]
      • "Do you know the way to San Jose?" [song title and lyrics, Bacharach and David]
   2. A means to enter or leave a place.
   3. A roughly-defined geographical area.

2. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
3. A state or condition

   When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.

4. (heading) Personal interaction.
   1. Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').

   2. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.

5. (Germanic paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
   • To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)
6. (nautical) Speed, progress, momentum.
   • 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:

     Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way.

7. A degree, an amount, a sense.
8. (US, As the head of an interjectory clause, followed by an infinitive starting with “to”) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
9. (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
10. (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.

Hyponyms

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:way

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

way

1. (only in reply to no way) yes; it is true; it is possible

   Synonym: yes way

Verb

way (third-person singular simple present ways, present participle waying, simple past and past participle wayed)

1. (obsolete) To travel.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:

     on a time as they together way'd, / He made him open chalenge […] .

Etymology 2

Apheresis of away.

Alternative forms

• 'way, ’way (dated)

Adverb

way (not comparable)

1. (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.

   I'm way too tired to do that.

   I'm a way better singer than Emma.

   • 2006, Keyboard, Volume 32, Issues 1-6, page 132,

     It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics.

2. (slang, with positive adjective) Very.

   I'm way tired.

   String theory is way cool, except for the math.

   • 2005, Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts, page 16,

     With all the way cool boys out there, what if you don't recognize them because you don't know what to look for? Or, what if you have a chance to pick a perfect Prince and you end up with a yucky Frog instead?

3. (informal) Far.

Synonyms

• (much): far, much, loads
• (very): so, very, so much

Derived terms

• way too
• way too many
• way too much

Translations

Etymology 3

From the sound it represents, by analogy with other (velar) letters such as kay and gay.

Noun

way (plural ways)

1. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.

Related terms

• double-u

Anagrams

• Yaw, wya, yaw

Bobot

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Noun

way

1. water

References

• "Bobot" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Highland Popoluca

Noun

way

1. hair

References

• Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)?^[4] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., ?ISBN, page 115

Lampung Api

Etymology

From Proto-Lampungic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Noun

way

1. water (clear liquid H?O)

Ojibwe

Particle

way

1. exclamation

References

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/way-pc-disc

Tz'utujil

Noun

way

1. tortilla

Synonyms

• away

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)