canvas

noun

/ˈkænvəs/

Etymology

From 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.

derived from κάνναβις
derived from cannabis
derived from canevas
inherited from canevas

Definitions

1
A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters,…
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
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.
- Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.
- A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket.
A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with…
A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
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1. 4
  A basis for creative work.
  - The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies
2. A region on which graphics can be rendered.
3. Sails in general.
4. 7
  A tent.
  - He spent the night under canvas.
5. A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition
  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.
6. Athletic shoes.
7. To cover (an area or object) with canvas.
8. 11
  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.
  - Thou that giu'ſt VVhores Indulgences to ſinne, / Ile canuas thee in thy broad Cardinalls Hat, / If thou proceed in this thy inſolence.

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Derived

blank canvas, canvasback, canvasboard, canvasful, canvasless, canvaslike, canvasman, canvassy, Canvastown, canvaswork, empty canvas, Java canvas, new canvas, noncanvas, on the canvas, under canvas, value proposition canvas

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at canvas. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at canvas. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at canvas

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA