sketch vs text

sketch

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

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

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

verb
  • To make a brief, basic drawing. 

  • To describe briefly and with very few details. 

adj
  • Sketchy, shady, questionable. 

text

noun
  • A book, tome or other set of writings. 

  • A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine. 

  • A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences. 

  • A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing. 

  • A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones. 

  • Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text. 

  • Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc. 

verb
  • To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones. 

  • To send and receive text messages. 

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