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sketchbook

US

/ˈsketʃˌbʊk/

UK

/ˈsketʃ.bʊk/

Meaning

A book with blank pages used for drawing, practising ideas, or keeping sketches.

चित्र बनाने और अभ्यास करने की खाली पन्नों वाली किताब, जिसमें आप अपने स्केच भी जमा कर सकते हैं।

Examples

“She carries a small sketchbook everywhere to draw things she notices.”

carry a sketchbookeveryday use

“I filled my sketchbook with drawings of people on the train.”

fill a sketchbook withcreative practice

“He sketched the old market before it became too crowded.”

sketch somethingpast-tense verb

Useful patterns

draw or sketch in a sketchbookfill a sketchbook with drawingscarry or keep a sketchbookuse a sketchbook for practice

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Word family

sketch(noun)
sketch(verb)
sketching(noun)

Common collocations

a blank sketchbooka sketchbook pagecarry a sketchbookdraw in a sketchbookfill a sketchbookkeep a sketchbooka pocket-sized sketchbook

Common mistakes

Not natural: I put my drawings on my sketchbook.

Better: I put my drawings in my sketchbook.

Use “in” because the drawings are on the book’s pages, not on its cover.

पन्नों पर रखी चीज़ों के लिए “in” कहें; “on” से लगता है कि चित्र किताब के कवर पर हैं।

Not natural: I made a sketchbook of the old building.

Better: I made a sketch of the old building in my sketchbook.

A sketchbook is the book; one drawing is a sketch.

Sketchbook पूरी किताब है, जबकि एक चित्र को sketch कहते हैं। इसलिए यहाँ “a sketch” सही है।

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drawing bookartist's notebookdrawing notebooksketch pad

Learner tip

A sketchbook is the book; a sketch is one drawing inside it. You usually draw or write in a sketchbook.

Sketchbook पूरी किताब होती है और sketch उसमें बना एक चित्र। आम तौर पर आप sketchbook में चित्र बनाते या लिखते हैं।

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What is a sketchbook mainly used for?

Sketchbook का इस्तेमाल मुख्य रूप से किस लिए होता है?