Concept cluster: Physical processes > Drawing or sketching
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(art) A rough drawing or model.
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(art, architecture) A sketch or drawing of someone or something, produced when it is not possible to take a photograph.
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(printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
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A weak imprint of magnetic information transferred to adjacent layers of audiotape, resulting in an unwanted echo.
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(art) To make a preliminary sketch.
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The mould used to make cast objects.
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(transitive) Synonym of chalk out (“make plans; sketch”)
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(transitive, figuratively) to make (plans); to sketch
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(art) A quick and sketchy drawing, often of a live model. Croquis drawings are usually made in a few minutes, after which the model changes pose and another croquis is drawn.
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A fade in which the volume of one audio track is lowered as that of another is raised.
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(computer graphics) Having selected portions of the outside removed so as to give an impression of the interior.
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One who cylinders or calenders.
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A model or object made by this technique.
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Something doodled; a careless sketch.
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To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
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To sketch; depict with lines; to produce a picture with pencil, crayon, chalk, etc. on paper, cardboard, etc.
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(literally) To sketch or mark with pencil, crayon, etc., on a given surface.
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(art) To keep in mind the entire shape of an object as it is rendered artistically (including the parts of the object that will be covered in the final piece)
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That which is drawn up or drafted; a draft (such as a plan, proposal, contract, etc.)
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Obsolete spelling of draw [To sketch; depict with lines; to produce a picture with pencil, crayon, chalk, etc. on paper, cardboard, etc.]
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A treatise.
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A person who or a thing which embosses
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The act of linking together; linkage.
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(art) The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
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To sketch; to delineate.
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An acid or corrosive chemical used in etching.
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A type of transition used in film, usually at the end of a scene, involving a fade to black from the cut.
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(art, very rare) A first or tentative sketch; a study.
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To manipulate a blank key within a lock so as to mark it with impressions of the shape of the lock, which facilitates creation of a duplicate key.
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(obsolete) dent; impression
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To engrave.
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(obsolete, rare) To engrave; to carve; to sculpture.
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Synonym of ledger drawing
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Narrative drawing or painting on paper or cloth, as executed by native Americans, principally of the Great Plains.
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A sketched study of a model holding a pose, normally nude, or the process of creating such an image.
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Having been subjected to a markup; having been marked up.
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To produce a moulded component through megacasting.
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(music) The result of mixing several tracks.
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A preparatory sketch or study for a painting or other artwork.
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(transitive) To sketch out or delineate.
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(transitive) To draw an outline of.
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One who or that which draws an outline.
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(audio) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
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(transitive) To write (something) using a pencil.
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(transitive) to fill in or write in using pencil
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(transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
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(transitive) To draw in profile or outline.
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To mark a drawing or document for correction or modification.
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bearing a remark, as an etching
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(transitive) To modify (a work in any medium).
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Alternative form of rough-draw [To sketch roughly; to make a quick, unpolished version.]
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Alternative form of rough-draw [To sketch roughly; to make a quick, unpolished version.]
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Drawn or delineated rapidly and by way of a first sketch.
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To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
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To doodle.
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A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.
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(transitive, intransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.
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(informal, Canada, US) To creep out; to give a creepy or sketchy feeling to.
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An extremely powerful weapon.
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A crude representation, as if drawn with the thumb
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The symbol underbrace .
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(art) A sketch done on the ground of a painting before paint is applied
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(figuratively) To emphasise or stress something
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That which underscores or emphasizes so as to draw attention.
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Synonym of see someone's etchings
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To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge gradually fading away.
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A sketch

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