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sketch map

sketch map

4.1
A quick drawing that shows the main places and paths in an area
  • noun
  • /skɛtʃ mæp/
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  • For example, the conquest of the Mossi kingdom of Wagadugu by French military forces in 1896 was made possible by Binger's sketch map of the royal center of Wagadugu (Binger 1892).

So I said, OK, Bob, draw me a sketch map of the floor plan of your house.

Examples

  • Long quiet months of cleaning up my sketch maps, improving my drawings, fitting together the sections into the larger picture of the Himalayan system.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • MAP: Geologic sketch map of the southwestern Caribbean Sea.

    Academic text (1995)

  • So I said, OK, Bob, draw me a sketch map of the floor plan of your house.

    MIT OpenCourseWare

  • I'll draw you up a little sketch map, marshal.

    The Art of a Bullet (1999)

  • The longitudinal sketch mapping technique allows the researcher to study how the sketch map evolves.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The sketch map in the conference folder showed a narrow road going through Wormleighton, then uphill to the small forest around the hotel.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The instruction set is similar to the normal procedure, but it requires the respondent to provide the sketch map on layers of carbon or tracing paper.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The basic sketch mapping technique is designed to obtain from the respondent a freely drawn and solicited sketch map that has been only minimally defined by the researcher.

    Academic text (1997)

  • As a result, published topographic maps of the region (e.g., TPNG 1971) have been unable to locate more than four of the nineteen "Mountain Villages" that Mead marked on her published sketch map or mentioned in her accounts.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Bob quickly drew a sketch map of his house to help me find my way around.

Synonyms

map
vssketch map
∞ 1.0

A drawing that shows where roads and towns are

is drawn quickly from observation and shows main features without precise measurements

How Detailed

contour map
  • Specialized
1 3.5
road map
4 2.3
map
∞ 1.0
sketch map
4.1

Surface Forms

sketch map singular
sketch maps plural

Morphology

sketch + map

The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'sketch' (a rapid, preliminary drawing) modifies 'map' (a chart of an area), yielding a roughly drawn or quickly produced map. This noun–noun compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand the MWE.

Etymology

The compound sketch map comes from making a quick sketch, a fast drawing, of a map while out in the field that shows only main roads or landmarks. So a sketch map means a rough map that shows the important places rather than exact measurements.