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(n)
A general description of some subject.
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(comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
(v)
(transitive, figurative) to make (plans); to sketch (something); to describe (a plan).
Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
(by extension) A short story or anecdote that presents a scene or tableau, or paints a picture.
(transitive) To foreshadow vaguely.
A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
(art) The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
The act or process of producing a technical drawing, or draft.
A book or pad with blank pages for sketching; a sketch pad.
Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
(informal) A photograph.
(countable) A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
Something which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
A painting, drawing, sculpture or other piece of creative, visual art.
(countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
(architecture, engineering, by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
(countable) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint.
A person's life story, especially one published.
(adj)
of or relating to an account of a person's life
The result of portraying; a representation, description, or portrait.
Model, example.
A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show the function or operation of something, or to show the relationships between the parts of a whole.
A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
A mixture of different components.
A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
The state or quality of being like or alike.
A systematic plan of future action.
(medicine) Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
The state of being timely.
A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a sudden moment of opportunity.
(Universal spelling) A version of a written work (such as a book or paper) or drawing.
A short comic performance done by amateurs.
(chiefly archaic, medicine) expectoration
(mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
A curriculum vitae.
(ambitransitive) To draw or scribble aimlessly.
(ambitransitive) To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.
(chiefly computing) A small picture, used as a compact representation of a larger image.
The act or process by which something is rendered.
The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
Not smooth; uneven.
(uncountable) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
(countable) A lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual.
A series of drawings that lay out the sequence of scenes in a film or series, especially an animated one.
A small mindless sketch, etc.
A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
Alternative spelling of watercolour. [(countable) A water-soluble pigment or paint.]
A structured arrangement of items within certain limits.
One who sketches.
Something doodled; a careless sketch.
Alternative spelling of sketch pad. [a book or pad with blank pages for sketching; a sketchbook]
(uncountable) This kind of painting as a genre.
Like a scribble; roughly scrawled; illegible or messy.
A playing card.
(art) A sketch done on the ground of a work of art before paint, pastel, ink, or other more permanent medium is applied.
(photography) A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.
Using the techniques of comedy, as a composition, performer etc; amusing, entertaining.
A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner.
A word, phrase or longer text in which the typeface or the layout has some special significance.
Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing
(art) artwork made with a pen
Obsolete form of eddish. [An aftergrowth of grass (or other plants) which grows after it has been mowed; also, a field of such growth.]
To sketch roughly; to make a quick, unpolished version.
(also draw upon) To appeal to, make a demand of, rely on; to utilize or make use of, as a source.
An act of tracing.
A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
A thin, broad piece cut off.
(narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
(informal, Canada, US, transitive) To creep out; to give a creepy or sketchy feeling to someone.
(intransitive) To hitch a ride by holding on to a motor vehicle while riding on a skateboard, roller skates, or bicycle.
(transitive, obsolete or poetic) To draw or bring forth.
A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
(transitive) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.
(uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
(transitive) To sketch out or delineate.
An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
To sketch a work of art in chalk, pencil, or other temporary medium prior to painting, inking, or otherwise making the final work.
(idiomatic, transitive) To attract.
(transitive) To compose (a document), especially following a standard form; prepare a plan.
A rough and rapid method of writing by substituting symbols for letters, words, etc.
A short run, flight.
(computer graphics) A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance.
To write in a messy, scribbly fashion.