report vs sketch

report

noun
  • A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject). 

  • An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager. 

  • Reputation. 

  • The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion. 

verb
  • To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. 

  • To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something). 

  • To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.). 

  • To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy). 

  • To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself. 

  • To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. 

  • To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone). 

  • To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker. 

sketch

noun
  • A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline. 

  • A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book. 

  • A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines. 

  • An amusing person. 

  • A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story. 

  • A lookout; vigilant watch for something. 

  • A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums). 

  • A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature. 

  • A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano. 

adj
  • Sketchy, shady, questionable. 

verb
  • To make a brief, basic drawing. 

  • To describe briefly and with very few details. 

How often have the words report and sketch occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )