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[ US /ˈkænvəs/ ]
[ US /ˈkænvəs/ ]
VERB
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cover with canvas
She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks
NOUN
- a tent made of canvas fabric
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the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account
the crowded canvas of history
the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound - an oil painting on canvas fabric
- a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
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the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete
the boxer picked himself up off the canvas - a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
How To Use canvas In A Sentence
- Background-position: background image in the canvas element in the targeted space, designated the upper left corner of the image relative to the level of canvas and vertical spacing interval .
- Twice through the following night was I wakened by the boat being hurled upon her beam-ends by the blows of the seas; but she righted easily, and took scarce any water, the canvas proving a very roof of safety. The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
- Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- Liberal Democrat canvass returns looked great. Times, Sunday Times
- Why pay 5p for a plastic bag when you can jazz up a plain canvas tote? Times, Sunday Times
- The following year police raided an exhibition of Lawrence's paintings and seized every canvas on which they could descry any wisp of pubic hair.
- When you pull a needleful through a hole, the wool is correctly positioned on a stretched canvas.
- A touching painting was the one depicting motherhood made in canvas by K. Kumaran.
- In her later works, large, amorphous shapes seem to float on the canvas.
- The council has been canvassing local opinion/local people to get their thoughts on the proposed housing development.