Usually means: Preliminary drawing outlining basic form.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word SKETCH:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sketch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sketch: Merriam-Webster
  3. sketch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sketch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sketch: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sketch: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sketch, sketch: Wordnik
  8. sketch: Wiktionary
  9. sketch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sketch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sketch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sketch: Dictionary.com
  13. sketch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sketch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sketch (EP), Sketch (Skins character), Sketch (application), Sketch (drawing), Sketch (mathematics), Sketch (music), Sketch (restaurant), Sketch (software), Sketch, The Sketch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sketch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sketch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sketch: Rhymezone
  19. sketch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sketch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sketch: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sketch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sketch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. sketch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. sketch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. sketch: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Sketch: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists
  3. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  5. SKETCH: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Sketch (disambiguation), sketch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sketch (disambiguation), Sketch (drawing), sketch: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. sketch: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sketch, sketch, sketch, sketch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Sketch: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Sketch, sketch(er)(y): Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sketched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sketch)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.
verb:  (transitive) 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.
noun:  A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
noun:  A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
noun:  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.
noun:  A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
noun:  A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
noun:  (informal) An amusing person.
noun:  (slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
noun:  (UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
noun:  (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).
adjective:  (informal) Sketchy, shady, questionable.

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