canvas
A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp or from cotton and polyesters, useful for…A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings.
» This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
Diese Welt ist nur die Leinwand für unsere Phantasien.
Этот мир не более чем полотно для нашего воображения.
Цей світ - лишень полотно для нашої уяви.
Meaning
9 sensesA type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings.
Leinen, Segeltuch, Canvas
холстxolst, паруси́наparusína, брезе́нтbrezént
A piece of such cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint an artwork.
She is painting a moonlight scene on the canvas.
Leinwand
холстxolst, полотно́polotnó
полотно́polotnó
A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
(figuratively)A basis for creative work.
The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies
A region on which graphics can be rendered.
Sails in general.
A tent.
He spent the night under canvas.
a tent made of canvas fabric
A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
(Nigeria)Athletic shoes.
Examples
38 sentencesThis world is but canvas to our imaginations.
Цей світ - лишень полотно для нашої уяви.
ruЭтот мир не более чем полотно для нашего воображения.
deDiese Welt ist nur die Leinwand für unsere Phantasien.
This is a very famous canvas.
ruЭто очень известное полотно.
The future is a blank canvas.
That painter makes her own canvases.
ruЭта художница сама изготавливает холсты.
He swept his brush across the canvas.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compareFrom Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp.
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Forms
plural: canvases / canvassesSynonyms
4 synonyms- a heavy, closely woven fabric:canvass
- the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete:canvass
- an oil painting on canvas fabric:canvass
- the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account:canvass
- a tent made of canvas fabric:canvas tentcanvass
- a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel:sailcanvasssheet