canvas

[CanĀ·vas]

Canvas is a heavy, coarse fabric artists paint on. It's also used to make sails, shoes, tents, or comfy director's chairs. It's a full service fabric!

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A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.

Noun
heavy closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)

Noun
the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete; "the boxer picked himself up off the canvas"

Noun
an oil painting on canvas

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a tent made of canvas

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a large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

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Noun
the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account; "the crowded canvas of history"; "the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound"

Verb
consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives"

Verb
cover with canvas; "She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks"

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get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions

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solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign


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A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.

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A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.

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A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil.

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Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas.

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A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.

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Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.


Canvas

Can"vas , n. [OE. canvas, canevas, F. canevas, LL. canabacius hempen cloth, canvas, L. cannabis hemp, fr. G. . See Hemp.] 1. A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.
By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led.
2. (a) A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work. (b) A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil.
History . . . does not bring out clearly upon the canvas the details which were familiar.
3. Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas.
To suit his canvas to the roughness of the see.
Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.
4. A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make. Grabb.

Canvas

Can"vas, a. Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.

A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.

Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.

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Usage Examples

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

One of my favorite beauty products is Vincent Longo Water Canvas creamy blush. I have it in every color and I've been using it for 5 years and that's all I put on when I leave the house. It looks so natural I just put a little bit on my cheeks to give them some color.

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

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Other Usage Examples

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

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