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# sketchbook

noun (a sketchbook, sketchbooks)

«sketchbook» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A book of plain, often thick, paper for drawing sketches and quick pictures. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#m1)
2. A collection of a person's sketches or quick notes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#m2)

### In the lessons

In art lessons pupils keep a sketchbook to practise drawing, collect ideas and test colours; teachers look in it to see progress. In everyday life artists carry sketchbooks to draw outside. Phrases: «sketchbook page», «keep a sketchbook».

### Examples

- I drew our cat in my sketchbook. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#x1)
- Bring your sketchbooks to the art lesson. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#x2)
- Her sketchbook is full of drawings of birds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#x3)
- Leonardo da Vinci filled his notebooks with sketches. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#x4)
- The teacher asked us to glue leaf rubbings into our sketchbooks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#x5)
- I take a small sketchbook on holiday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/#x6)

### Note

Countable; one word (sometimes «sketch book»). Not lined like an exercise book.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sketchbook» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sketchbook/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sketchbook» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sketchbook.html) on Mova free.