sketch
skech
- n preliminary drawing for later elaboration
 - n a brief literary description
 - n short descriptive summary (of events)
 - n a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine
 - v  make a sketch of
                    
                        
                            
sketch the building - v  describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
                    
                        
                            
sketch the outline of the book 
- IT WAS A Saturday Night Live sketch eight years ago, and William Shatner -- the indomitable Captain James Tiberius Kirk from the original TV series -- was playing himself making a .
 - NBC really is probing the perils of late-night sketch-comedy shows--twice.
 - In the first scene of 30 Rock, NBC sketch-comedy producer Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) buys a hot-dog vendor's entire stock, to spite a jerk who tries to cut in line.