Synonyms:
sketch, study
Meaning: preliminary drawing for later elaboration; "he made several studies before starting to paint"
Synonyms:
sketch, vignette
Meaning: a brief literary description
Synonyms:
sketch, survey, resume
Meaning: short descriptive summary (of events)
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
sketch, chalk_out
Meaning: make a sketch of; "sketch the building"
Synonyms:
sketch, outline, adumbrate
Meaning: describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas"
Usage examples
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
I will sketch out the origin of our plays more explicitly if I can.
When he was twenty-one he saw his first printed sketch in a monthly magazine.
They had come back before the little water-colour sketch she was making was quite finished.
The outline sketch will indicate the principal patents covering the basic features of the lamp.
I shall only sketch in its broad features, so that we may have more time to attend to his work.
The half of what she passed through in the way of suffering has scarcely been hinted at in this sketch.
One of them came forward with a sketch of our flier, asking by signs if we were the aerial visitors they had seen.
Such is a crude and bald sketch of the steps by which Kepler rose to his great generalizations--the two laws which have immortalized his name.
The Senator then launched into a sketch of our great country, and dwelt for an hour or more upon its prosperity and the dangers which threatened it.