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  • 11sketch´er — sketch «skehch», noun, verb. –n. 1. a rough, quickly done drawing, painting, clay model, or design: »The artist made many sketches in pencil before painting the portrait. 2. an outline; plan: »Give me a sketch of his career. SYNONYM(S): draft,… …

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  • 12Rough for Theatre I — is a one act theatrical sketch by Samuel Beckett. Also known simply as Theatre I it began life originally in French in the late fifties as Fragment de théâtre and was later translated into English by Beckett himself. The first production was at… …

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  • 13rough — rough, roughen Rough is used as a verb chiefly in the expressions to rough it (= do without basic comforts), to rough out (= to make a sketch of), to rough up (= to attack). Otherwise the verb from rough, meaning ‘to make or become rough’ is… …

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  • 14sketch — [skech] n. [earlier schitz < Du schets < It schizzo < L schedium, extempore poem < Gr schedios, extempore, sudden < schein, to hold: see SCHEME] 1. a simple, rough drawing or design, done rapidly and without much detail 2. a brief… …

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  • 15Rough — Rough, v. t. 1. To render rough; to roughen. [1913 Webster] 2. To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes. Crabb. [1913 Webster] 3. To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch. [1913… …

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  • 16Rough for Radio I — is a short radio play by Samuel Beckett, written in French in 1961 and first published in Minuit 5 in September 1973 as Esquisse radiophinique . Its first English publication as Sketch for Radio Play was in Stereo Headphones 7 (spring 1976). It… …

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  • 17sketch — ► NOUN 1) a rough or unfinished drawing or painting. 2) a short humorous play or performance. 3) a brief written or spoken account or description. ► VERB 1) make a sketch of. 2) give a brief account or general outline of. DERIVA …

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  • 18rough something in — rough (something) in to begin the first work on something. First the plumber roughed in the drain pipe and water pipes. Make a sketch, rough it in, and then add the details …

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  • 19rough in — rough (something) in to begin the first work on something. First the plumber roughed in the drain pipe and water pipes. Make a sketch, rough it in, and then add the details …

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  • 20sketch — sketcher, n. sketchingly, adv. sketchlike, adj. /skech/, n. 1. a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, esp. a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details. 2. a rough design, plan, or draft, as of a book. 3. a… …

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