canvas
A thick, strong cloth used to make things like tents, bags, and painting surfaces.
A strong, heavy, woven cloth, usually made from cotton, linen, or similar fibers, used for things like tents, sails, bags, and as a base for paintings.
A piece of strong cloth that an artist paints on, usually stretched over a wooden frame.
A piece of strong cloth, often stretched over a frame or fixed to a board, used as the surface for an oil or acrylic painting.
A painting on canvas, spoken of as one object, especially in a gallery or museum.
A painting whose support is canvas, often referred to as an individual work of art.
In computer programs, the empty space where you can draw, design, or place things on the screen.
In computing and design, a defined visual area on a screen or in software where graphics, text, or other elements are created, arranged, or displayed.
The flat cloth floor of a boxing ring where boxers stand and can fall down.
The cloth-covered floor of a boxing ring on which fighters stand and may fall during a match.
The whole range of things in a subject or situation, looked at as one big picture, not in small details.
The full scope or range of something, especially a subject, period, or situation considered in broad outline rather than detail.
To put canvas cloth over or around something, for example a boat or a piece of equipment.
To cover, line, or furnish something with canvas cloth, especially in technical or craft contexts.
- Base: canvas
- Plural: canvas, canvases
- Base: canvas
- 3rd Person Singular: canvases
- Present Participle: canvasing
- Past: canvased
a blank canvas
1Person or thing with no marks yet
A person, thing, or situation that has nothing decided or formed yet, so it can become many different things.
- The new project is a blank canvas for the team to explore fresh ideas.
- Moving to another country gave her a blank canvas to reinvent her life.
hit the canvas
1Boxer falls to ring floor
For a boxer or fighter to fall down onto the floor of the ring during a fight.
- The champion finally hit the canvas after a powerful uppercut.
- He hit the canvas twice in the first round but still won on points.
on the canvas
1Lying knocked down in the ring
Lying on the floor of a boxing ring after being hit and knocked down.
- The referee began to count while the fighter lay on the canvas.
- He was on the canvas for several seconds but managed to get back up.
paint on a broad canvas
1Deal with subject in broad outline
To talk about or show a subject in a very big, general way, covering many things but not going into small details.
- The series paints on a broad canvas, covering fifty years of political change.
- In this book the author prefers to paint on a broad canvas rather than focus on one character.
stretch a canvas
1Prepare canvas by stretching on frame
To pull canvas cloth tight over a wooden frame and fix it, so an artist can paint on it.
- Before he starts a new series, he spends a day stretching canvases in the studio.
- She learned how to stretch a canvas as part of her art class.