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[ UK /kˈænvəs/ ]
[ US /ˈkænvəs/ ]
VERB
  1. cover with canvas
    She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks
NOUN
  1. a tent made of canvas fabric
  2. the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account
    the crowded canvas of history
    the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound
  3. an oil painting on canvas fabric
  4. a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
  5. the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete
    the boxer picked himself up off the canvas
  6. 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.
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