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Meaning
Verb
●
To make a
brief
,
basic
drawing.
●
To
describe
briefly
and with very few details.
Noun
●
A
rapidly
executed
freehand
drawing
that is not
intended
as a
finished
work, often
consisting of
a
multitude
of
overlapping
lines.
●
A
rough
design,
plan
, or
draft
, as a
rough
draft
of a book.
●
A
brief
description
of a person or
account of
an
incident
; a general
presentation
or outline.
●
In Comedy:
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.
A
brief
musical composition
or
theme
, especially for the piano.
A
brief
,
light
, or
informal
literary
composition
, such as an
essay
or
short
story.
●
In Comedy:
An
amusing
person.
●
In Irish English:
A
lookout
;
vigilant
watch
for something.
●
In British English & Comedy:
A
humorous
newspaper
article
summarizing
political
events
, making
heavy
use of
metaphor
,
paraphrase
and caricature.
●
In 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).
Adj
●
In American English & Canadian English:
Sketchy,
shady
, questionable.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
sketch
English
schets
Dutch
schizzo
Italian
schedium
Latin
σχέδιος
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
σχεδόν
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
ἔχω
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
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