sketch

a quick rough drawing made by hand, without care for detail and not meant to be finished

A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.

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.

A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.

A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.

(UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.

A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.

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).

(informal) An amusing person.

(Ireland, slang) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.

(informal) Sketchy, shady, questionable.

(informal) Fascist or with right-wing or neo-Nazi ties; NSBM.

To make a brief, basic drawing.

To describe briefly and with very few details.