'Canvas' definitions:
Definition of 'canvas'
(from WordNet)
noun
A heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents) [syn: canvas, canvass]
noun
An oil painting on canvas fabric [syn: canvas, canvass]
noun
The setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account; "the crowded canvas of history"; "the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound" [syn: canvas, canvass]
noun
A tent made of canvas fabric [syn: canvas tent, canvas, canvass]
noun
A large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel [syn: sail, canvas, canvass, sheet]
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" [syn: canvas, canvass]
verb
Solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign [syn: canvass, canvas]
verb
verb
Cover with canvas; "She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks"
verb
Definition of 'Canvas'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- History . . . does not bring out clearly upon the canvas the details which were familiar. --J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- To suit his canvas to the roughness of the see. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Canvas'
From: GCIDE
- Canvas \Can"vas\, a. Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'canvas'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agora,
- air brush,
- amphitheater,
- aquarelle,
- arena,
- art paper,
- athletic field,
- auditorium,
- background,
- bear garden,
- big top,
- boltrope,
- bowl,
- boxing ring,
- brush,
- bull ring,
- camera lucida,
- camera obscura,
- campus,
- chalk,
- charcoal,
- circus,
- clew,
- cloth,
- cockpit,
- coliseum,
- colosseum,
- course,
- crayon,
- cringle,
- crowd of sail,
- drawing paper,
- drawing pencil,
- drier,
- earing,
- easel,
- easel-picture,
- field,
- finger painting,
- fixative,
- floor,
- foot,
- fore-and-aft sail,
- forum,
- gouache,
- ground,
- gym,
- gymnasium,
- hall,
- head,
- hippodrome,
- lay figure,
- leech,
- lists,
- locale,
- luff,
- marketplace,
- mat,
- maulstick,
- medium,
- milieu,
- muslin,
- oil,
- oil painting,
- open forum,
- paint,
- paintbrush,
- painting,
- palaestra,
- palette,
- palette knife,
- parade ground,
- pastel,
- pencil,
- pigments,
- pit,
- place,
- plain sail,
- platform,
- precinct,
- press of sail,
- prize ring,
- public square,
- purlieu,
- rag,
- range,
- reduced sail,
- reef point,
- reefed sail,
- ring,
- round top,
- sail,
- scene,
- scene of action,
- scenery,
- scratchboard,
- setting,
- siccative,
- site,
- sketchbook,
- sketchpad,
- spatula,
- sphere,
- spray gun,
- square sail,
- squared circle,
- stadium,
- stage,
- stage set,
- stage setting,
- stump,
- tempera,
- tent,
- tentage,
- terrain,
- theater,
- tilting ground,
- tiltyard,
- top,
- varnish,
- walk,
- wash,
- wash drawing,
- water,
- whitetop,
- wrestling ring