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/ˈkænvəs/ · noun
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.
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.
The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies
The double desire of being able to overtake a weaker flying enemy, or to escape when pursued by a stronger, has induced the owners to overmast their cruisers, and to spread too much canvass; and the great number of men, many of them not seamen, who being upon deck when a ship heels suddenly are huddled down to leeward, and increase by their weight the effect of the wind.
He spent the night under canvas.
And with the aunſwere here vpon eftſoones in hand they go, / The doubtfull wordes wherof they ſcan and canuas to and fro.
Use canvas when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Canvas means 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..
Common synonyms include sheet, sail, canvass, poll.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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