sketch

noun. something shortened

Word Origin & History

"rough drawing intended to serve as the basis for a finished picture," 1660s, from Dutch schets or Low German skizze, both apparently 17c. artists' borrowings from Italian schizzo "sketch, drawing," which is commonly said to be from Latin *schedius (OED compares schedia "raft," schedium "an extemporaneous poem"), from or related to Greek skhedios "temporary, extemporaneous, done or made off-hand," related to skhema "form, shape, appearance" (see scheme (n.)). But according to Barnhart Italian schizzo is a special use of schizzo "a splash, squirt," from schizzare "to splash or squirt," of uncertain origin.

Extended sense of "brief account" is from 1660s; meaning "short play or performance, usually comic" is from 1789. Sketch-book recorded from 1820. German Skizze, French esquisse, Spanish esquicio are likewise from Italian schizzo.

Example Sentences forsketch

We must now close our sketch of those diversified and pleasant volumes.

You must have lost that sketch after you reached San Francisco.

I arose from my chair and examined the sketch of the starving mountaineer.

"I wanted to have a talk to you about that sketch," he said to John.

Mr. Cream took the MS. of John's sketch from his pocket and spread it on the table.

He told her of the sketch for the Creams and of the tragedy of St. Patrick.

To none has it less application than to the subject of our sketch.

She ran her knife around her sketch, detached it, and tore it across and across.

She tried to settle on a point of view for her sketch, the sketch he was to help her with.

It contained nothing but the sketch made upon the fly-leaf of a novel.

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