Sketch vs. Schematic — What's the Difference?

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

A schematic, or schematic diagram, is a representation of the elements of a system using abstract, graphic symbols rather than realistic pictures. A schematic usually omits all details that are not relevant to the key information the schematic is intended to convey, and may include oversimplified elements in order to make this essential meaning easier to grasp.

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

Of, relating to, or in the form of a scheme or diagram.

A comical or amusing person or thing.

A structural or procedural diagram, especially of an electrical or mechanical system.

Make a rough drawing of

Represented too simply or in an overly formulaic way, reflecting a shallow or incomplete understanding of complex subject matter

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

Sketchy, incomplete

A brief general account or presentation; an outline.

Relating to a schema

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

A simplified line drawing used by scientists, engineers, technologists and others to illustrate a system at an abstract level. Schematic drawings often use standard symbols for clarity.

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

Of or pertaining to a scheme or a schema.

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

Diagram of an electrical or mechanical system

(Informal) An amusing person.

Represented in simplified or symbolic form

To make a sketch of; outline.

To make a sketch.

(ambitransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.

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

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

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

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

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.

(informal) An amusing person.

A lookout; vigilant watch for something.

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

(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).

Sketchy, shady, questionable.

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.

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

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

To make sketches, as of landscapes.

Preliminary drawing for later elaboration;

A brief literary description

Short descriptive summary (of events)

A humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine

Make a sketch of;

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