sketch
/ˈskɛt͡ʃ/ noun C1- 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. · I have to write a character sketch for a novel study.
- A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
- A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
- An amusing person.
- 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).
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Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Leaning forward in the cab, he listened intently to MacDonald’s short sketch of the problem which awaited us in Sussex.
In ten more we were seated in the parlour of the inn and being treated to a rapid sketch of those events which have been outlined in the previous chapter.
I gave him a short sketch of my adventures, and had hardly concluded it by the time that we reached our destination.
Let me give you a short sketch of what I have done, with some indication of what we are about to do.
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