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Corpus manager and text analysis software
Sketch Engine is a corpus manager and text analysis software developed by Lexical Computing since 2003. Its purpose is to enable people studying language
Sketch_Engine
19th century proposed mechanical computer
Luigi Federico Menabrea reported in Sketch of the Analytical Engine: "Mr. Babbage believes he can, by his engine, form the product of two numbers, each
Analytical_engine
Computer program that constructs concordances from text corpora
preloaded corpora without requiring local storage or processing. The Sketch Engine, developed by Adam Kilgarriff and Pavel Rychlý (Masaryk University)
Concordancer
Overview of data sets of languages
de/en/download/Hausa "IgTenTen – Igbo corpus from the web | Sketch Engine". 20 June 2022. "Oromo text corpora | Sketch Engine". 15 January 2019. https://www.researchgate
List_of_text_corpora
Text corpus and database of 21st century English
Oxford English Corpus is formatted in XML and usually analysed with Sketch Engine software. By April 27, 2006, the dictionary database had 1 billion words
Oxford_English_Corpus
Toolbox". mathworks.com. Retrieved 2019-07-10. "Text analysis with Sketch Engine". Sketch Engine. LEXICAL COMPUTING CZ s.r.o. 14 December 2017. Retrieved 17
List_of_text_mining_software
Digital collections of natural language data
the languages taught at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. Sketch Engine: Open corpora with free access TS Corpus – A Turkish Corpus freely available
Text_corpus
the British corpus linguist Adam Kilgarriff and exploited within the Sketch Engine corpus management system. They are an extension of the general collocation
Word_sketch
Translated documents of the European Parliament
Europarl is also available to search via the corpus management system Sketch Engine. In his paper "Europarl: A Parallel Corpus for Statistical Machine Translation"
Europarl_Corpus
Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Thomas' task-based Discovering English with Sketch Engine exemplifies DDL and acknowledges Johns throughout. Other recent books
Data-driven_learning
Official website of EU Law and documents
tokens for English, was produced in 2016 and made available in the Sketch Engine. Unannotated data is provided to researchers under a Creative Commons
EUR-Lex
Data set of American English in 1961
ISBN 0-415-22210-9, p. 87. Brown Corpus Manual Download the Brown Corpus Search, via Sketch Engine, in the Brown Corpus Annotated by the TreeTagger v2 More details on
Brown_Corpus
British dictionary
boxes" giving lists of high-frequency collocates, identified using Sketch Engine software word frequency information, with the most frequent 7500 English
Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners
Macmillan_English_Dictionary_for_Advanced_Learners
Frequent occurrence of words next to each other
item N-gram Phrasal verb Phraseology Phraseme Sketch Engine Statistically improbable phrase Word sketch Dunning, Ted (1993): "Accurate methods for the
Collocation
16 May 2015) was a corpus linguist, lexicographer, and co-author of Sketch Engine. His parents were booksellers. He spent one year as a volunteer in Kenya
Adam_Kilgarriff
match the same standards. These corpora are made available through the Sketch Engine corpus manager. There are TenTen corpora for more than 35 languages
TenTen_Corpus_Family
Attempts to spot a pattern from information
period of the particular text (based on timestamped marks), see e.g. Sketch Engine diachronic analysis (trends). Cool-hunting Extrapolation Horizon scanning
Trend_analysis
Company database
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Enron_Corpus
Text corpus of British English
examined the representation of men and women in this corpus by using Sketch Engine. The corpus query tool was used to explore grammatical behaviour of
British_National_Corpus
Early steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen
engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, and is sometimes referred to as the Newcomen fire engine (see below) or Newcomen engine. The engine was
Newcomen_atmospheric_engine
web-interface search Bonito 2 which is a part of NoSketch Engine, limited version of the software Sketch Engine. Institute of Linguistics Tadić 1990, 1996 Archived
Croatian_National_Corpus
Software for searching a text collection
the system EXMARaLDA for working with oral corpora on a computer NoSketch Engine – a free open-source corpus management system combining Manatee (back-end)
Corpus_manager
Method in natural language processing
fastText is also used to calculate word embeddings for text corpora in Sketch Engine that are available online. Word embeddings may contain the biases and
Word_embedding
Cushitic language of the Horn of Africa
James Currey Publishers. ISBN 978-0-85255-280-3. Laitin (1977:86–87) Sketch Engine. https://www.sketchengine.eu/sowac-somali-corpus/. Retrieved October
Somali_language
Grammatical number
University Press. (ISBN 9780199812790 / ISBN 9780199812776) "POS tags". Sketch Engine. Lexical Computing. 2018-03-27. Retrieved 2018-04-06. "The Penn Treebank
Plural
English mathematician (1815–1852)
ISBN 978-0-912647-09-8. Menabrea, Luigi Federico; Lovelace, Ada (1843). "Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage... with notes by the translator
Ada_Lovelace
Lexical database
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
VerbNet
Type of continuous-flow turbine engine
A gas turbine is a complete continuous-flow internal combustion engine in which air is compressed, fuel is burned in the compressed air, and the resulting
Gas-turbine_engine
Computer algorithm
the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent. — Ada Lovelace, Notes upon the memoir "Sketch of
Note_G
Topics referred to by the same term
the title track FT Bonito, a kit car by Fiberfab A web interface of Sketch Engine, a corpus manager The Google Pixel 3a XL, a 2019 smartphone codenamed
Bonito_(disambiguation)
Database of verbal propositions
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
PropBank
Corpus is available via a corpus manager Sketch Engine. This version FidaPLUS corpus contains Word sketches, an automatic corpus-derived overview of word's
Slovenian_National_Corpus
Video game engine developed by id Software
"Game Engines". Linux Quake HOWTO. Retrieved July 15, 2024. Beschizza, Rob (July 30, 2018). "Quake on me: classic shooter rendered with pencil sketch filter"
Quake_engine
International linguistics project
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Universal_Dependencies
Valvetrain configuration
An overhead camshaft (OHC) engine is a piston engine in which the camshaft is located in the cylinder head above the combustion chamber. This contrasts
Overhead_camshaft_engine
Transcribed corpus of American English
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
TIMIT
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
German_Reference_Corpus
Branch of linguistics that studies language through examples contained in real texts
corpora Machine translation Natural Language Toolkit Pattern grammar Search engines: they access the "web corpus" Semantic prosody Speech corpus Text corpus
Corpus_linguistics
Kilgarriff, corpus linguist, lexicographer and the co-author of the Sketch Engine corpus management system Sir Peter Knight, Principal of the Faculty
List of University of Sussex alumni
List_of_University_of_Sussex_alumni
Language database
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
COBUILD
Reciprocating internal combustion engine
12+6+8 (cylinders), because when the first ideas were sketched, a family of 6-, 8- and 12-cylinder engines was contemplated, although only the 8-cylinder version
Jaguar_AJ-V8_engine
Large text corpus of American English
University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-2615-1. Official website "The Linguistics Search Engine That Overturned the Federal Mask Mandate" - article in Verge
Corpus of Contemporary American English
Corpus_of_Contemporary_American_English
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Switchboard Telephone Speech Corpus
Switchboard_Telephone_Speech_Corpus
Speech corpus established in 1984
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
CHILDES
Type of multiple-engine configuration with a common intake, used in aircraft
concepts (Liquid Air Cycle Engine) by Reaction Engines, UK. Sketch of a RBCC propulsion system (scroll down to 7th picture) Sketch of a TBCC propulsion system
Rocket-based_combined_cycle
Seventh-generation Mercedes-Benz SL-Class
#amgspirit #sl55 #sl63 | 16 comments". "Design sketch of the Mercedes-AMG SL". Retrieved 28 July 2022. "Design sketch of the Mercedes-AMG SL". Retrieved 28 July
Mercedes-Benz_SL_(R232)
Digital drawing and sketching app
September 17, 2009, SketchBook Mobile was released, initially for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. Built with the same paint engine as Pro, Mobile (and
Sketchbook_(software)
Engines', Gas Engine Magazine http://gasengine.farmcollector.com/Gas-Engines/HISTORICAL-SKETCH-HALF-BREED-ENGINES.aspx[dead link] Historical Sketch:
Oil_field_engine
Annotated linguistic resource
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Quranic_Arabic_Corpus
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Bank_of_English
Word collection
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Cambridge_English_Corpus
politician Adam Kilgarriff, corpus linguist, lexicographer and co-author of Sketch Engine Joseph Oladele Sanusi, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria
South_West_London_College
registration [3][permanent dead link] 14 billion words noSketch Engine, concordances, sketch grammar, thesaurus, KWIC, morphological tagging, CQP search
General Internet Corpus of Russian
General_Internet_Corpus_of_Russian
Online project collecting example sentences
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Tatoeba
Identifying parts of speech in a text corpus
part-of-speech tagging Trigram tagger Word sense disambiguation "POS tags". Sketch Engine. Lexical Computing. 2018-03-27. Retrieved 2018-04-06. Universal POS
Part-of-speech_tagging
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
National_Corpus_of_Polish
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Arabic_Speech_Corpus
Speech corpus collection of British English recordings
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Spoken_English_Corpus
Luxury compact executive car
automobile layout consists of a front-engine design, with transaxle-type transmissions mounted at the rear of the engine. The cars are front-wheel drive, or
Audi_A4
Sports car manufactured by Bugatti
The Bugatti Mistral, also called the Bugatti W16 Mistral, is a mid-engine two-seater sports car manufactured in Molsheim, France, by French automobile
Bugatti_Mistral
Database of Russian texts
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Russian_National_Corpus
Set of written texts in electronic form in the Czech language
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Czech_National_Corpus
Opposing approaches to categorisation
closely related to lexicography, since computational tools such as Sketch Engine support construction of modern dictionaries. Sometimes not all the sense
Lumpers_and_splitters
Set of text corpora representing varieties of English around the world
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
International Corpus of English
International_Corpus_of_English
Turbofan engine developed by Tusaş Engine Industries
developed turbofan engine by Tusaş Engine Industries (TEI), designed to deliver 6,000 pounds-force (26.7 kN) of thrust. The engine is primarily intended
TEI-TF6000
Type of electric propulsion
propulsion engine is a type of electric propulsion that generates thrust from a quasi-neutral plasma. This is in contrast with ion thruster engines, which
Plasma_propulsion_engine
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Croatian_Language_Corpus
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
TalkBank
Text corpus of the Esperanto language
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Tekstaro_de_Esperanto
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech
Scottish_Corpus_of_Texts_and_Speech
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language
Bergen_Corpus_of_London_Teenage_Language
Digital corpus of pre-1500 Greek literature
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Thesaurus_Linguae_Graecae
doing a sketch together. Danny gets upset when Liz says that Bob's writers will be punching up the sketch. Danny fantasizes about the sketch. Bob gets
List of The Danny Thomas Show episodes
List_of_The_Danny_Thomas_Show_episodes
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
PCVC_Speech_Dataset
Text corpus of American English
Standard (XCES) (usable with the British National Corpus's XAIRA search engine), a UIMA-compliant format, and formats suitable for input to a wide variety
American_National_Corpus
1970s collection of British English texts
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen_Corpus
British linguist
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Claire_Hardaker
Welsh corpus
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
CorCenCC
confusing conversation with Lisa and Hank. Dillwell draws up some really nice sketches. There is a little question about the price, but that gets rectified. The
List_of_Green_Acres_episodes
Scholarly project based in Finland
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
Neo-Assyrian_Text_Corpus_Project
British television comedy sketch show (1979–1982)
Not the Nine O'Clock News is a British television sketch comedy show that was broadcast on BBC2 from 16 October 1979 to 8 March 1982. Originally shown
Not_the_Nine_O'Clock_News
Type of database that uses vectors to represent other data
A vector database, vector store or vector search engine is a database that stores and retrieves embeddings of data in vector space. Vector databases typically
Vector_database
Fire engine with an electric motor
An electric fire engine is a fire engine that is powered by an electric motor—essentially, an electric vehicle designed and used for firefighting. Electric
Electric_fire_engine
Fifth generation of BMW 3 Series
generation of M3 to be powered by a V8 engine. Introduced in 2007, it uses the BMW S65 naturally aspirated V8 engine and was produced in saloon, coupé and
BMW_3_Series_(E90)
Reciprocating internal combustion engine
flat-six air-cooled automobile engine developed by General Motors (GM) in the late 1950s for use in the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair of the 1960s.
Chevrolet_Turbo-Air_6_engine
back at the project house, they meet up with homeowner Bruce Leasure to sketch out some solutions for the master suite. 24–03 "The Winchester House - 3"
List of This Old House episodes (seasons 21–30)
List_of_This_Old_House_episodes_(seasons_21–30)
2006 Metroidvania video game
OS X. SketchFighter uses OpenGL and a custom game engine to create visuals for all elements of the game reminiscent of hand-drawn sketches. SketchFighter
SketchFighter_4000_Alpha
Sixth generation of BMW 3 Series
previously). The F30 also marked the 3 Series' first use of a three-cylinder engine in its 2015 facelift. A new plug-in hybrid F30 model was also introduced
BMW_3_Series_(F30)
1833–1836 short story collection by Charles Dickens
the Second Series of Sketches by Boz, 17 December 1836. The contents of Sketches by Boz are: Our Parish The Beadle. The Parish Engine. The Schoolmaster.
Sketches_by_Boz
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Buckeye_Corpus
publicly available content-based image retrieval (CBIR) engines. These image search engines look at the content (pixels) of images in order to return
List_of_CBIR_engines
Mountain pass and archaeological site in Colorado, USA
of '11,660 feet' commonly attributed to Rollins Pass (note the McClure sketch later in this article) "reflects what might have been an original survey
Rollins_Pass
Second generation of BMW 1 Series
diesel and inline-six petrol engines. In 2015, inline-three petrol and diesel engines were added to the model range. All engines are turbocharged. Unlike
BMW_1_Series_(F20)
Information retrieval for 3D models
Funkhouser et al. (2003), the proposed “Princeton 3D search engine” supports 2D sketches, 3D sketches, 3D models and text as queries. In Chen et al. (2003)
3D_Content_Retrieval
Text dataset
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Hamshahri_Corpus
Grand tourer
Retrieved 2023-09-14. Gorden Wagener (12 July 2023). "Fantastic design sketch of our latest @mercedesbenz family member – our CLE Coupé." – via Instagram
Mercedes-Benz_CLE
Sports car produced by Porsche
colloquially Neunelfer) is a family of two-door, high performance rear-engine sports cars, introduced in September 1964 by Porsche of Stuttgart, Germany
Porsche_911
Series of four-wheel drive vehicles produced by Toyota
Engine and transmission improvements include: An all new optional V8 diesel engine, the Toyota VD engine (a twin-turbocharged version of the engine used
Toyota_Land_Cruiser
Tagged corpus suitable for natural language processing research
Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Organizations BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium
Bijankhan_Corpus
Mid-size luxury crossover SUV
all-wheel-drive and an eight-speed dual clutch automatic transmission, and shares its engine lineup with the A-Class. The model adopts a square, angular style inspired
Mercedes-Benz_GLB
SKETCH ENGINE
SKETCH ENGINE
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Such 1.
Male
Hindi/Indian
(सेठ) Hindi name derived from the Sanskrit word setu, SETH means "bridge." Compare with other forms of Seth.
Male
Hebrew
(ש×ֵת) Hebrew name SHETH means "buttocks." In the bible, this is the name of the third son of Adam and Eve.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English strech, strecche ‘strong’, ‘violent’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Keech.
Surname or Lastname
English and Irish
English and Irish : ethnic name for someone from Scotland.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English keech ‘lump’, ‘fat’, hence an unflattering nickname for a fat, lumpish person.
Boy/Male
English
Maker of arrows.
Boy/Male
Anglo, British, English
Maker of Arrows; Diminutive of Fletcher
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Leach 1.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Telugu
God; Lord Krishna
Boy/Male
British, English
Swift
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Keech.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Freedom
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Peach.Americanized spelling of German Petsch.
Female
Gaelic
(pron. Lee-shock) Gaelic name LUÃSEACH means "light-bringer."Â
Surname or Lastname
English (Somerset)
English (Somerset) : unexplained.Perhaps an Americanized form of German Kitsche, a Silesian and Saxon pet form of Christian.
Male
English
Anglicized form of Hebrew Sheth, SETH means "buttocks." In the bible, this is the name of the third son of Adam and Eve. Compare with other forms of Seth.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord Krishna
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Kedge, a nickname from Middle English kedge ‘brisk’, ‘lively’, a dialect term confined to East Anglia (probably of Old Norse origin).
SKETCH ENGINE
SKETCH ENGINE
Girl/Female
Latin
Beautiful golden child.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Favour; Protection
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Holy Trust
Girl/Female
Indian, Kannada
Goddess Parvathi
Girl/Female
Indian, Marathi, Traditional
Traditional; Ideal; Good Behaviour; Idealistic
Boy/Male
Indian, Telugu
Always Love; Heart
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Charcoal; The Planet Mars
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Modern, Sanskrit
Happiness; Happy
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Knowledge
Girl/Female
Indian
Quiet, Tranquillity, Calm, Abstract meditation on brahman, Quietism personified as a son of Dharma, Epithet of Vishnu
SKETCH ENGINE
SKETCH ENGINE
SKETCH ENGINE
SKETCH ENGINE
SKETCH ENGINE
n.
Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
v. t.
To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.
v. t.
To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.
a.
Containing only an outline or rough form; being in the manner of a sketch; incomplete.
n.
One who sketches.
v. i.
A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.
v. t.
To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
v. i.
To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
v. t.
To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.
v. i.
Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes.
v. i. & t.
To make a speech; to harangue.
v. t.
To sketch; to delineate.
v. t.
To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
imp. & p. p.
of Sketch
n.
Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.
v. i.
To make sketches, as of landscapes.
n.
A short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower.
v. t.
To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
n.
A hangman. See Jack Ketch.