English word sketch comes from Ancient Greek σχεδόν, Ancient Greek σχεδιάζω, Italian schizzare, and later Italian schizzo ((rough) sketch. Squirt, splash. Stain, spot, flake.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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σχεδόν | Ancient Greek (grc) | |
σχεδιάζω | Ancient Greek (grc) | |
schizzare | Italian (it) | (ambitransitive) to spatter. (ambitransitive) to splash. (ambitransitive) to squirt. |
σχέδιος | Ancient Greek (grc) | |
schedium | Latin (lat) | |
schizzo | Italian (it) | (rough) sketch. Squirt, splash. Stain, spot, flake. |
schets | Dutch (nl) | Sketch. |
sketch | English (en) | To describe briefly and with very few details.. To make a brief, basic drawing. Sketchy, shady, questionable. (UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.. (informal) An amusing person.. (math) A category together with a set of limit cones and a set of colimit cones.. (slang, Ireland) Keeping sketch: to keep a [...] |