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Canvas : (noun)
1: heavy closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or
sails or tents) [syn: canvass]
2: an oil painting on canvas [syn: canvass]
3: the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic
account; "the crowded canvas of history"; "the movie
demanded a dramatic canvas of sound" [syn: canvass]
4: a tent made of canvas [syn: canvas tent, canvass]
5: a large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind
is used to propel a sailing vessel [syn: sail, canvass,
sheet]
6: the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or
professional wrestlers compete; "the boxer picked himself
up off the canvas" [syn: canvass]
(verb)
1: solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign
[syn: canvass]
2: get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
[syn: poll, canvass]
3: cover with canvas; "She canvassed the walls of her living
room so as to conceal the ugly cracks"
4: 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" [syn: analyze, analyse,
study, examine, canvass]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
--Tennyson.
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. --J.
H. Newman.
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.
--Goldsmith.
Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of
Claude. --Macaulay.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Canvas : \Can"vas\, a.
Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse
cloth; as, a canvas tent.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Canvas, WV
Zip code(s): 26662
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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