B2

canvas English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word canvas once they have reached the level B2 – Upper Intermediate. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning canvas meaning

What does canvas mean?

Definitions in simple English

canvas Noun

— A canvas is a type of hard, rough cloth used for making sails, tents, and painted on. John prepared the canvas for the sail.

— Canvas that is stretched out on a frame to be painted on. A good artist chooses his or her own canvas.

— Canvas is something that is a basis for a creative work. The life in rural France served as a canvas for Ted F. Adams' Around the Tree.

canvas Verb

— If you canvas something, you cover an area or object with canvas.

canvas

— noun a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)

— noun an oil painting on canvas fabric

— noun the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account the crowded canvas of history the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound

— noun a tent made of canvas fabric

— noun the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete the boxer picked himself up off the canvas

— verb cover with canvas She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks

— verb (= canvass) solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign

— noun (= sail) a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

— verb (= poll) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions

— verb (= analyze, analyse) 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

Synonyms canvas synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as canvas?

canvas English » English

canvass

sail

linen

sailcloth

cloth

tarpaulin

duck

tent

study

sheet

sackcloth

picture

painting

examine

canvas tent

tarp

screen

sail cloth

research

poll

flax

analyze

analyse

web

vet

unweave

untwine

unsnarl

try

trace

textile

test

tent fly

tammy

tableau

swaddle

survey

structure

straighten out

spread

spell out

spare part

sound

sort

solve

soft goods

sober

smooth out

sift

shelter

Topics canvas topics

What do people use canvas to talk about?

Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building materials

• What materials are used to make a roof?
  roofing material tile roof tile tin roof tin sheet shingle wooden shingle asphalt shingle shake thatched roof thatch grass roof grass straw palm leaf sod canvas (tent)

Work and occupation Occupation Art

Draw, paint

• What tools and materials are used to paint a picture?
  paint brush palette easel canvas medium tempera distemper

Examples canvas examples

How do I use canvas in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

Oil on canvas can never paint a petal so delicate.

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.

Movie subtitles

Cover them with canvas!

Fire right into the canvas!

I sealed it up with some heavy canvas.

I want this to be a picture of dignity. a true canvas of the suffering of humanity.

Get on! Stretch all your canvas.

It's a pity we ever took you away to troupe under a piece of canvas with thugs like Sargent and Buck.

Get me a strip of canvas.

Oh, you should've heard the sound of the rain drumming' on the canvas.

A painted canvas could not alter.

The face painted in the canvas could grow bestial, sodden and unclean.

The Village long-hairs are peddling junk like that for the price of the canvas.

I can usually tell whether a canvas has been painted by a man or woman.

Come and take a look at my canvas.

I told you to keep that canvas lashed down tight.

Draw down every rag of canvas the yards will hold.

You'll have a watch, keep order, go aloft to mend canvas, reef and furl.

Well, we're under canvas again, Mr. Christian.

You don't know wood from canvas, and it seems that you don't want to learn.

They'd steal canvas off a corpse.

We're still under canvas.

We have extra canvas, rope, a tool chest.

Once I hit the canvas with a bang, and the next minute there I was in a Japanese garden with them pink cherry blossoms.

Whenever I try to paint gaiety, music, a dance or an outdoor wedding, on my canvas I find only hatred, jealousy, murder and cemeteries.

Our favorite trysting place was on the freight deck among canvas-covered automobiles.

Get me a strip of canvas. Tear it from one of the packs.

I know the real thing when I see it, But I can't put it on canvas.

I wonder if I could put it on canvas.

I'll put it on canvas.

He halted by your canvas of the woman ironing.

I'll make a frame for the canvas tonight.

If I starve. I'll never take another canvas to that dealer.

Hear the crack of the canvas as he slammed the wheel over. and we came around on a tack.

We take it and wrap it in clean white cloth and then wrap it tight in canvas. and put it down in a pit of hot mesquite coals for 18 hours.

By all that's holy, Captain! We'll lose every inch of canvas if we don't ease the ship!

Get new canvas aloft!

Captain, we cannot get more canvas up in this wind!

The painter stumbles like a blind man in the darkness of the white canvas.

Give me a large canvas.

News and current affairs

World leaders must help the battered peace process pick itself up from the canvas, clear its head, and fight on.

Even though a weak US response is the biggest risk on the economic side, what happens in China may well have deeper and more lasting consequences on the broader historical canvas.

It does not need more regulations, but rather a vastly larger canvas for individual freedom and opportunity.