Definizione monolingua

canvas

canvas (third-person singular simple present canvases, present participle canvasing, simple past and past participle canvased)

1. To cover an area or object with canvas.
2. Alternative spelling of canvass.

canvas (plural (UK) canvasses, (US) canvases)

1. A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 556.

     The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers, and wraps for meat, as for the best quality of ordinary table and shirting linen. \

2. A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
3. A basis for creative work.

   The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies.

4. (nautical) sails in general
5. A tent.

   He spent the night under canvas.

6. Alternative spelling of canvass.

Definizione dizionario canvas

	canovaccio
	a type of coarse cloth

	tela
	a type of coarse cloth

Pittura

canapa

circo

interfodera

scenario

stoffa

tela da vele

tela di canapa

Altri significati:

Alternative spelling of canvass.

A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.

A basis for creative work.

A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.

(oil painting) canvas

(nautical) sails in general

A tent.

To cover an area or object with canvas.

An extremely heavy-duty fabric popularly used as a painting surface.

a piece of canvas cloth on which one may paint