sketch – English noun declension

English noun forms of sketch

Noun: sketch
Singularsketch
Pluralsketches

Sample Sentences

  • Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft. [1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. [2012 March 26, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106:]
  • I have to write a character sketch for a novel study.
  • to keep sketch
  • A very capable journalist, he wrote the Parliamentary sketch for the Pall Mall and the Westminster Gazette for several years. [1901, Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality:]
  • 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. [1978, Robin Callender Smith, Press law, Sweet and Maxwell:]
  • Frank had won a reputation while writing the Times sketch as one of the wittiest writers and talkers in England. [2012, Andrew Gimson, Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:]

Etymology

From Dutch schets or German Skizze, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”), from σχεδόν (skhedón, “near, nearby”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”). Compare scheme. See: Dutch Nouns 'schets', German Nouns 'Skizze', Italian Nouns 'schizzo', Latin Nouns 'schedium'.

Verbs referencing "sketch"

Dutch Nouns sketch, French Nouns sketch, Italian Nouns sketch, Swedish Nouns sketch, Finnish Nouns sketsi, German Nouns Sketch, Polish Nouns skecz, French Nouns squètche, Catalan Nouns esquetx.