Canvas can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
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| canvas - cover with canvas; "She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks" | ||
| canvas - 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" | ||
| canvas - get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions | ||
| canvas - solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign | ||
Noun |
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| canvas - a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents) | ||
| canvas - the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete; "the boxer picked himself up off the canvas" | ||
| canvas - an oil painting on canvas fabric | ||
| canvas - the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account; "the crowded canvas of history"; "the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound" | ||
| canvas - a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel | ||
| canvas - a tent made of canvas fabric |
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| 1. | noun | The boxer picked himself up off the canvas. | |
| 2. | noun | The crowded canvas of history. | |
| 3. | noun | The movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound. | |
| 4. | noun | This world is but canvas to our imaginations. | |
| 5. | noun | Oil on canvas can never paint a petal so delicate. | |
| 6. | noun | He swept his brush across the canvas. | |
| 7. | noun | Groaning strangely she is hurling her overflowing passion onto the canvas! | |
| 8. | noun | His eyes got stuck on the canvas on the wall. | |
| 9. | noun | A clipper ship running before the wind with all her canvas spread is a sight to behold. | |
| 10. | noun | A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. | |
| 11. | noun | Mary took a canvas and paints and walked to the brook. | |
| 12. | noun | "As they, returning, sport with joyous cry, / and flap their wings and circle in the sky, / e'en so thy vessels and each late-lost crew / safe now and scatheless in the harbour lie, / or, crowding canvas, hold the port in view." | |
| 13. | noun | Scarce now the summer had begun, when straight / my father, old Anchises, gave command / to spread our canvas and to trust to Fate. / Weeping, I leave my native port, the land, / the fields where once the Trojan towers did stand, / and, homeless, launch upon the boundless brine, / heart-broken outcast, with an exiled band, / comrades, and son, and household gods divine, / and the great Gods of Troy, the guardians of our line. | |
| 14. | noun | The South-wind fills the canvas; on we fly / where breeze and pilot drive us through the deep. | |
| 15. | noun | Instead of canvas, solar sails are made of thin sheets of Mylar, the same crinkly silver material often used for helium-filled balloons. |
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| The boxer picked himself up off the canvas. |
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| The crowded canvas of history. |
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| The movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound. |
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| This world is but canvas to our imaginations. | |
| Oil on canvas can never paint a petal so delicate. | |
| He swept his brush across the canvas. | |
| Groaning strangely she is hurling her overflowing passion onto the canvas! | |
| His eyes got stuck on the canvas on the wall. | |
| A clipper ship running before the wind with all her canvas spread is a sight to behold. | |
| A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. | |
| Mary took a canvas and paints and walked to the brook. | |
| "As they, returning, sport with joyous cry, / and flap their wings and circle in the sky, / e'en so thy vessels and each late-lost crew / safe now and scatheless in the harbour lie, / or, crowding canvas, hold the port in view." | |
| Scarce now the summer had begun, when straight / my father, old Anchises, gave command / to spread our canvas and to trust to Fate. / Weeping, I leave my native port, the land, / the fields where once the Trojan towers did stand, / and, homeless, launch upon the boundless brine, / heart-broken outcast, with an exiled band, / comrades, and son, and household gods divine, / and the great Gods of Troy, the guardians of our line. | |
| The South-wind fills the canvas; on we fly / where breeze and pilot drive us through the deep. | |
| Instead of canvas, solar sails are made of thin sheets of Mylar, the same crinkly silver material often used for helium-filled balloons. | |