Found 4 items, similar to Canvas.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: canvas kanvas
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: canvas kanvas, terpal
English → English (WordNet) Definition: canvas canvas n 1: heavy closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents) [syn: canvass] 2: an oil painting on canvas [syn: canvass] 3: the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account; “the crowded canvas of history”; “the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound” [syn: canvass] 4: a tent made of canvas [syn: canvas tent, canvass] 5: a large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel [syn: sail, canvass, sheet] 6: 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: canvass] canvas v 1: solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign [syn: canvass] 2: get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions [syn: poll, canvass] 3: cover with canvas; “She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks” 4: 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” [syn: analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Canvas 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] Canvas \Can"vas\, a. Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent. [1913 Webster]