canvas

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “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. isim 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.”

3. isim A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
4. isim A basis for creative work.

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

5. isim A region on which graphics can be rendered.
6. isim Sails in general.
7. isim A tent.

   “He spent the night under canvas.”

8. isim 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.
9. isim Athletic shoes.
10. fiil To cover (an area or object) with canvas.
11. fiil Obsolete spelling of canvass.

    “And with the aunſwere here vpon eftſoones in hand they go, / The doubtfull wordes wherof they ſcan and canuas to and fro.”

12. isim Obsolete spelling of canvass.

    “[…] I haue learned this faſhion of Sᵗ. Hierome the Oracle of Antiquitie, vvho vvas vvont to entertaine his Paula, and Euſtochium, Marcella, Principia, Hedibia, and other deuout Ladies, vvith learned canuaſes of the deep pointes of Diuinity.”