canvas
pronunciation
How to pronounce canvas in British English:
UK [ˈkænvəs]
How to pronounce canvas in American English:
US [ˈkænvəs]
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- Noun:
- heavy closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
- an oil painting on canvas
- the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account
- a tent made of canvas
- a large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
- the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete
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- Verb:
- solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign
- get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
- cover with canvas
- consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
Word Origin
- canvas
- canvas: [14] Canvas is related ultimately to hemp, for originally canvas was a cloth made from hemp. Latin cannabis (from the same source as English hemp) produced the Vulgar Latin derivative *cannapāceum, which passed into English via Old Northern French canevas. The verb canvass [16] appears to come from the noun: it originally meant ‘toss in a canvas sheet’, and this was perhaps the basis, via an intermediate ‘criticize roughly’, of the metaphorical sense ‘discuss thoroughly’. It is not clear where the political meaning ‘solicit votes’ came from.=> cannabis, hemp
- canvas (n.)
- "sturdy cloth made from hemp or flax," mid-14c., from Anglo-French canevaz, Old North French canevach, Old French chanevaz, literally "made of hemp, hempen," noun use of Vulgar Latin adjective *cannapaceus "made of hemp," from Latin cannabis, from Greek kannabis "hemp," a Scythian or Thracian word (see cannabis). Latin adjectives in -aceus sometimes were made in Romanic languages into nouns of augmentative or pejorative force. Especially as a surface for oil paintings from c. 1700; hence "an oil painting" (1764).
Example
- 1. The blank canvas is often painted with unfounded suspicions .
- 2. Its lesson ends with the frame around the canvas .
- 3. Completed in 1633 , it is the only canvas the early baroque spanish master ever signed and dated .
- 4. What colors are you going to add to your canvas today ?
- 5. On the side of each canvas is a qr code .