1. To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.
2. To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.
Syn. — To delineate; design; draught; depict.
Sketch
(Sketch), v. i. To make sketches, as of landscapes.
Sketchbook
(Sketch"book`), n. A book of sketches or for sketches.
Sketcher
(Sketch"er) n. One who sketches.
Sketchily
(Sketch"i*ly) adv. In a sketchy or incomplete manner. "Sketchily descriptive." Bartlett.
Sketchiness
(Sketch"i*ness), n. The quality or state of being sketchy; lack of finish; incompleteness.
Sketchy
(Sketch"y) a. Containing only an outline or rough form; being in the manner of a sketch; incomplete.
The execution is sketchy throughout; the head, in particular, is left in the rough.
J. S. Harford. Skew
(Skew) adv. [Cf. D. scheef. Dan. skiv, Sw. skef, Icel. skeifr, G. schief, also E. shy, a. & v.
i.] Awry; obliquely; askew.
Skew
(Skew), a. Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; — chiefly used in technical
phrases.
Skew arch, an oblique arch. See under Oblique. — Skew back. (Civil Engin.) (a) The course of
masonry, the stone, or the iron plate, having an inclined face, which forms the abutment for the voussoirs
of a segmental arch. (b) A plate, cap, or shoe, having an inclined face to receive the nut of a diagonal
brace, rod, or the end of an inclined strut, in a truss or frame. — Skew bridge. See under Bridge,
n. — Skew curve (Geom.), a curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve. See Plane curve, under
Curve. — Skew gearing, or Skew bevel gearing (Mach.), toothed gearing, generally resembling
bevel gearing, for connecting two shafts that are neither parallel nor intersecting, and in which the teeth
slant across the faces of the gears. — Skew surface (Geom.), a ruled surface such that in general
two successive generating straight lines do not intersect; a warped surface; as, the helicoid is a skew
surface. — Skew symmetrical determinant (Alg.), a determinant in which the elements in each column
of the matrix are equal to the elements of the corresponding row of the matrix with the signs changed,
as in below.
(1) 0 2 -3-2 0 53 -5 0 (2) 4 -1 71 8 - 2-7 2 1|
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This requires that the numbers in the diagonal from the upper left to lower right corner be zeros. A like
determinant in which the numbers in the diagonal are not zeros is a skew determinant, as in above.
Skew
(Skew) n. (Arch.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like,
cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
Skew
(Skew), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skewed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Skewing.]
1. To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
Child, you must walk straight, without skewing.
L'Estrange. 2. To start aside; to shy, as a horse. [Prov. Eng.]
3. To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously. Beau. & Fl.
