Syn. -- To delineate; design; draught; depict.
Sketch, v. i. To make sketches, as of landscapes.
Sketch"book`, n. A book of sketches or for sketches.
Sketch"er (?), n. One who sketches.
Sketch"i*ly (?), adv. In a sketchy or incomplete manner. "Sketchily
descriptive." Bartlett.
Sketch"i*ness, n. The quality or state of being sketchy; lack of
finish; incompleteness.
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 (?), adv. [Cf. D. scheef. Dan. ski&?;v, Sw. skef, Icel. skeifr, G.
schief, also E. shy, a. & v. i.] Awry; obliquely; askew.
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 (1), below.
(1) 0 2 -3-2 0 53 -5 0 (2) 4 -1 71 8 - 2-7 2 1
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 (2), above.
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, 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.