Sketch vs. Picture — What's the Difference?

A rough or unfinished drawing or painting, often made to assist in making a more finished picture

A visual representation or image painted, drawn, photographed, or otherwise rendered on a flat surface.

A short humorous play or performance, consisting typically of one scene in a revue or comedy programme

A visible image, especially one on a flat surface or screen

A comical or amusing person or thing.

A vivid or realistic verbal description

Make a rough drawing of

A vivid mental image.

A hasty or undetailed drawing or painting often made as a preliminary study.

A person or object bearing a marked resemblance to another

A brief general account or presentation; an outline.

A person, object, or scene that typifies or embodies an emotion, state of mind, or mood

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

The chief circumstances of an event or time; the situation

(Music) A brief composition, especially for the piano.

A movie.

A short, often satirical scene or play in a revue or variety show; a skit.

A tableau vivant.

(Informal) An amusing person.

To make a visible representation of

To make a sketch of; outline.

To form a mental image of; visualize

To make a sketch.

To describe vividly in words; make a verbal picture of

(ambitransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.

A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.

(transitive) To describe briefly and with very few details.

An image; a representation as in the imagination.

A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.

A painting.

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

A photograph.

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

A motion picture.

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.

Cinema as a form of entertainment.

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

A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).

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

An attractive sight.

(informal) An amusing person.

The art of painting; representation by painting.

A lookout; vigilant watch for something.

A figure; a model.

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

Situation.

(category theory) 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).

(MLE) A sample of an illegal drug.

Sketchy, shady, questionable.

(programming) A format string in the COBOL programming language.

An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.

(transitive) To represent in or with a picture.

To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.

(transitive) To imagine or envision.

To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.

(transitive) To depict or describe vividly.

To make sketches, as of landscapes.

The art of painting; representation by painting.

Preliminary drawing for later elaboration;

A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.

A brief literary description

An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.

Short descriptive summary (of events)

To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.

A humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine

A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;

Make a sketch of;

Graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface;

Describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of;

A clear and telling mental image;

A situation treated as an observable object;

Illustrations used to decorate or explain a text;

A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement;

The visible part of a television transmission;

A graphic or vivid verbal description;

A typical example of some state or quality;

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;

Show in, or as in, a picture;