Definition of canvas in English:

canvas

nounPlural canvases, Plural canvasses ˈkanvəsˈkænvəs

mass noun

1A strong, coarse unbleached cloth made from hemp, flax, or a similar yarn, used to make items such as sails and tents and as a surface for oil painting.
帆布；油画布
the painting is oil on canvas
as modifier a canvas bag
Example sentencesExamples
- Fabrics such as twill, poplin, canvas, suede, denim and wool are also available in a variety of styles.
- The attack came as hundreds of troops were eating lunch under a large dining tent constructed of canvas and metal.
- Most of the miners lived in canvas tents, some of them large enough to accommodate several men, and there were a few log cabins.
- He makes a detailed drawing before he starts painting with oils on canvas or linen.
- Under the dripping red and white striped canvas of her tent, the secretary of Appleby Show summed up the day.
- Cover shrubs, the ground, and walkways with canvas drop cloths.
- Each ship was carrying gunpowder and the ships were made of wood with canvas sails.
- Bingham sprang from the car, hauling an old blue and gold canvas duffle bag.
- As he walked a little farther into the room he looked at the two beanbag shaped chairs made of unbleached cotton canvas which were placed on either side of the table and then he went over and sat in one.
- Behind them hundreds of canvas tents stretch into the flat spaces of the desert.
- Ropes, canvas, tent poles, rugs, and oil for lamps were all there.
- Sailcloth is a very strong, heavy canvas or duck made in plain weave.
- The cast members will be subsisting on 1897 type supplies: canvas tents, no mosquito repellent, canned and dry goods.
- The fabrics include washed denims, soft poplins, heavy canvas, twills, and yarn-dyed plaids.
- On a private patch of island we have a large green canvas safari tent.
- Dacron sails have also largely replaced canvas sailcloth.
- Eventually he saw them; the large wooden wagons covered with heavy canvas cloth and drawn by oxen.
- Leather is a key material for the season, along with parachute silk, cotton poplin, cotton canvas and shining silk.
- The camp is a level, dusty wilderness, the barren sameness of the plain broken only by row upon regimented row of bleached canvas tents.
- Herdsmen dwell in large tents made of canvas or woven yak wool.
1. 1.1count noun A piece of canvas prepared for use as the surface for an oil painting.
  油画布
  they found a canvas and he seated his model
  he is used to painting large canvases
  Example sentencesExamples
  Fuzzy black material on the canvas's surface creates high relief topped by white paint, as in a model of choppy waters seen from above.
  There is at least a tacit nod to the unprepared canvases of Color Field paintings.
  His show's roughly two dozen pieces offered up his standard menu of hectic and deliberately crude brushwork on ratty-looking unstretched canvases.
  Once the canvas is prepared, the size and texture of the canvas determines the subject of the piece.
  Some pieces incorporate canvases printed with archival photographs - anonymous aerial views and street scenes.
  Each student has produced a painting on a circular canvas, a linocut, two ceramic plates, and a piece of text.
  For this technique the canvas was usually prepared with no more than a preliminary coating of glue size.
  The larger pieces are completed on canvases while the smaller pieces use a wooden surface.
  His hard-edged geometric paintings on diamond-shaped canvases were inspired by artists such as Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers.
  In the Black Paintings of Frank Stella, symmetry locks the image to the surface of the canvas.
  Coming prepared with several canvases already smudged with charcoal outlines she readied her supplies.
  The piece is divided into two separate canvases so that if the Blumenthals ever move to a home with lower ceilings, they can still display the artwork.
  It is more difficult upon a piece of white paper to deceive the expert spectator than it is with a lot of oil paint upon a canvas.
  Both Warhol and Rauschenberg extended the technique by screenprinting a design onto a canvas to serve as the basis of a painting.
  Ever resourceful, she has even discovered a supplier of prepared canvasses and water based oil paint in Naklua.
  The first parcel arrived, but it contained paintings on thin canvases, and the range of colours was limited to those that Eli Jah had been able to obtain.
  From the center of the room, both small and large pieces looked like pulled fabric across a canvas.
  The second group consists of abstract paintings on stretched canvases.
  The final piece is a blank canvas accompanied by a block of dense text larger than the work itself.
  Very few of Klimt's paintings were done on canvases, as he preferred to paint murals.
2. 1.2count noun An oil painting.
  油画
  Turner's late canvases
  特纳的晚期油画。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She activates the luscious surfaces of her mostly poured and splashed oil-and-alkyd canvases by means of clashing colors and textures.
  They left with a dozen paintings - including canvases by Rembrandt, Manet, Degas and Vermeer - worth a staggering $300m.
  This sort of abstract illusionism brings to mind certain early canvases by Bridget Riley.
  Another show sporting canvases with geometric surfaces is Simon Ingram's Garden at Vavasour Godkin.
  In the course of that summer, he completed 30 canvases and 20 drawings; Matisse around half that number.
  Unabashedly physical, the surfaces of Bhavsar's canvases luxuriate in a granular abundance of color.
  Even today, Gauguin's canvases strike viewers with their raw power, and not surprisingly they shocked Parisian audiences of his own time.
  It's a little as if each hard-edged shape in her precisely chaotic canvases were a piece extracted from an entirely different jigsaw puzzle.
  A conceptual dimension arises from Caillouet's addition of words imprinted in the surfaces of her monochrome canvases, which are shown in multipaneled groups.
  This exhibition brings together seven of J.M.W. Turner's large canvases along with 96 watercolors, a number of which are related to the paintings.
  The 40 canvasses, watercolours, drawings, photographs and sculptures all have a Thai ambiance, though not all subjects are landscapes.
  These vibrant color fields have an affinity with the spiritual-esthetic aura of Mark Rothko's canvases.
  The show also featured earlier work: six canvases and four smaller pastel drawings.
  The resulting painterly effects evoke old-master canvases as well as introductory chapters in the history of photography.
  During the 1930s his work included large canvases depicting the life of working people in a style influenced by Picasso and Léger.
  Also included in the exhibition are canvasses by Gauguin and a late ‘Bathers’ by Cezanne.
  Below it is the Cubist Gallery, filled with canvases by Picasso, Braque, and Gris as well as sculptures by Matisse and Giacometti.
  He published three books of poetry, painted landscapes and abstract expressionist canvases, and played what he called cowboy harmonica for just about anyone who would listen.
  This is most notable in the new sense of a journey across the paintings, from dawn to bright daylight to night, revealed after the removal of the dark varnishes on the canvases by Muller and Delacroix.
  His colorful canvases often depict peasant life in Mexico, which he transformed into magical scenes.
  Synonyms
  painting, picture, drawing, sketch, likeness, image, study, representation, portrayal, depiction
3. 1.3 A variety of canvas with an open weave, used as a basis for tapestry and embroidery.
  （用作挂毯或刺绣底料的）网形粗布，十字布
  she sent her needle stabbing in and out of the canvas
  Example sentencesExamples
  Tirianna carefully sneaked over to the tapestry and Sicirin pulled her beneath the embroidered canvas.
  They may be school children but this does not stop them from weaving stories on canvas.
  I could see the weave of the canvas underneath in places.
  If politics was one thread weaving through the canvas of John MacKenna's young life, then teaching was another.
4. 1.4the canvas The canvas-covered floor of a boxing or wrestling ring.
  （铺帆布的）拳击台地面；摔跤场地面
  a thunderous uppercut sent him crashing to the canvas
  Example sentencesExamples
  The place where she's landed could be the canvas of a boxing ring, that's how happy she is to be home.
  In the fourth round, Liston finally connected and sent Martin to the canvas.
  In their first meeting, Zulu knocked out Kamanga in the first round but the challenger accused Zulu of wrestling him to the canvas.
  So when I stepped into the ring of Swindon's 4 Front Wrestling and found blood stains covering the canvas I didn't exactly feel comfortable.
  From where I was sitting, I could see Tunney's back as Dempsey crumbled to the canvas.
  Ingle was out cold the second the left hook connected with his chin and he was motionless on the canvas as his corner men, paramedics and doctors scrambled through the ropes to save his life.
  Within the first minute Chavez walked into a Morales right uppercut and he hit the canvas.
  The other times Louis hit the canvas was a result of what is commonly referred to as a flash knockdown.
  Shortly before the bout took place, torrential rain fell and the canvas was drenched.
  Then it comes, one of the most vicious right uppercuts I've ever seen, and lands flush on Frazier's chin and he sinks to the canvas.
  He was open to a counter and Chi connected with a great right to the body and a big left uppercut that sent Brodie down to the canvas and looking in pain.
  The floor is filthy, there are piles of rubbish in the corners and the canvas of the ring itself is stained with blood.
  Jimmy twice had the iron jawed Bonevena on the canvas, something Joe Frazier could not do in 25 rounds of fighting.
  In less than five minutes, both fighters hit the canvas eleven times and Dempsey was knocked out of the ring.
5. 1.5count noun Either of a racing boat's tapering ends, originally covered with canvas.
  （原为用帆布遮盖的）赛艇尖端
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the final sprint barely a canvas separated Germany, Estonia and Great Britain with this order remaining the same at the finish.
  China and Russia made a race of the women's pair C final crossing the line within half a canvas of each other - China in front.
  In Lucerne it was a dead heat with Italy and in Munich barely a canvas separated them and Belarus.
  Two spots were available and coming out of the start four boats remained within a canvas of each other.
  New Zealand had the best of the start holding half a canvas at 500 gone.
  However Great Britain had a true race on their hands as Slovenia put the pressure on staying within a canvas of Great Britain throughout the race.
  But France heard the call and responded giving just enough to cross the finish line a mere canvas ahead of Great Britain.
  Only 250 metres was left and the United States had barely a canvas over Great Britain.
  Pulling out a final sprint Todorovich and Popovic reduced a boat length deficit down to a canvas as they closed in on Greece.
  He kept the heat on Hungary right to the line finishing a mere canvas behind.

verbcanvassing, canvassed, canvases, canvasses, canvased, canvasing ˈkanvəsˈkænvəs

[with object]

Cover with canvas.
用帆布覆盖
the door had been canvassed over
门被盖上帆布。
Synonyms
solicit, seek, drum up

Phrases

by a canvas

(in boat racing) by a very small margin.
（赛艇比赛中）以毫厘之差
Example sentencesExamples
- First Denmark gained the leading edge, holding on to it, although only by a canvas over Olympic spare Djordje Visacki rowing in bow seat for Serbia & Montenegro.
- This time they only beat us by a canvas (just the end bit of the boat with no people in it).
- Here's the Selborne crew which beat Dale by a canvas in a thrilling race on the Buffalo River on Saturday: P le Roux, I McJannet, D Dennison, M Cole and J Bothma.

under canvas

1In a tent or tents.
在帐篷里
the family will be living under canvas
全家将住在帐篷里。
Example sentencesExamples
- If, however, you don't fancy a night under canvas, why not book into a local B&B or stay in Perth or Edinburgh and use the shuttle buses?
- With a team of 15 other students and staff from Bury Grammar School, the 17-year-old from Norden will sleep under canvas for a month to make a better environment for a chosen village.
- Make a tent - recreate the thrill of being under canvas by pegging old sheets or blankets over the washing line or rotary dryer and weighting them at the corners to create a tent.
- Accommodation is under canvas or in remote shepherds' huts.
- Tents are essentially small stately homes under canvas - teak furniture, proper beds, flush WCs, bucket showers, laundry service.
- Great temporary camps were formed, at Turton, Edgworth, Doffcocker and Heaton, where thousands of soldiers lived under canvas.
- The expedition will give the cadets the opportunity to develop skills in hiking, cycling, kayaking, orienteering and living under canvas.
- The girls slept under canvas and cooked their own meals over a campfire.
- Lying awake at 5: 30 a.m. on a rapidly deflating airbed in a freezing field at Stoke Poges is not conducive to starting you out on a life under canvas, although it did seem to be for others.
- Few things are more exciting to children than sleeping under canvas, particularly when there's a beach outside their tent flaps.
2With sails spread.
扬着帆，扯满帆
fishermen whose boats still travel under canvas
Example sentencesExamples
- In Cuyp's representation the tautness of their bent masts under canvas mimics the bulges of the cows' ribs through their slack hides.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old Northern French canevas, based on Latin cannabis 'hemp', from Greek.

You can smoke cannabis (late 18th century), or, more legally, make canvas out of its fibre. The versatile cannabis plant, also known as hemp (ultimately from the same root), gives its name to the fabric, as both come from Latin cannabis. To win a race or competition by a canvas is to win it very narrowly. The canvas here is the tapered front end of a racing boat, covered with canvas to keep water out. In the early16th century the verb canvass meant ‘to toss someone in a canvas sheet’, as a punishment or as part of a game. Other early meanings included ‘to beat’ and ‘to criticize severely’. This led on to the idea of discussing an issue, and then to proposing something for discussion. Finally, the word acquired the meaning ‘to seek support’, as in ‘to canvass for votes’ at an election.

Rhymes

canvass

Definition of canvas in US English:

canvas

nounˈkanvəsˈkænvəs

1A strong, coarse unbleached cloth made from hemp, flax, cotton, or a similar yarn, used to make items such as sails and tents and as a surface for oil painting.
帆布；油画布
as modifier a canvas bag
Example sentencesExamples
- Cover shrubs, the ground, and walkways with canvas drop cloths.
- Bingham sprang from the car, hauling an old blue and gold canvas duffle bag.
- The fabrics include washed denims, soft poplins, heavy canvas, twills, and yarn-dyed plaids.
- Leather is a key material for the season, along with parachute silk, cotton poplin, cotton canvas and shining silk.
- Sailcloth is a very strong, heavy canvas or duck made in plain weave.
- The attack came as hundreds of troops were eating lunch under a large dining tent constructed of canvas and metal.
- Eventually he saw them; the large wooden wagons covered with heavy canvas cloth and drawn by oxen.
- Behind them hundreds of canvas tents stretch into the flat spaces of the desert.
- The camp is a level, dusty wilderness, the barren sameness of the plain broken only by row upon regimented row of bleached canvas tents.
- The cast members will be subsisting on 1897 type supplies: canvas tents, no mosquito repellent, canned and dry goods.
- On a private patch of island we have a large green canvas safari tent.
- As he walked a little farther into the room he looked at the two beanbag shaped chairs made of unbleached cotton canvas which were placed on either side of the table and then he went over and sat in one.
- Dacron sails have also largely replaced canvas sailcloth.
- He makes a detailed drawing before he starts painting with oils on canvas or linen.
- Most of the miners lived in canvas tents, some of them large enough to accommodate several men, and there were a few log cabins.
- Fabrics such as twill, poplin, canvas, suede, denim and wool are also available in a variety of styles.
- Ropes, canvas, tent poles, rugs, and oil for lamps were all there.
- Each ship was carrying gunpowder and the ships were made of wood with canvas sails.
- Under the dripping red and white striped canvas of her tent, the secretary of Appleby Show summed up the day.
- Herdsmen dwell in large tents made of canvas or woven yak wool.
1. 1.1 A piece of canvas cloth prepared for use as the surface for an oil painting.
  油画布
  Example sentencesExamples
  His hard-edged geometric paintings on diamond-shaped canvases were inspired by artists such as Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers.
  Very few of Klimt's paintings were done on canvases, as he preferred to paint murals.
  In the Black Paintings of Frank Stella, symmetry locks the image to the surface of the canvas.
  The final piece is a blank canvas accompanied by a block of dense text larger than the work itself.
  Coming prepared with several canvases already smudged with charcoal outlines she readied her supplies.
  The piece is divided into two separate canvases so that if the Blumenthals ever move to a home with lower ceilings, they can still display the artwork.
  Once the canvas is prepared, the size and texture of the canvas determines the subject of the piece.
  Fuzzy black material on the canvas's surface creates high relief topped by white paint, as in a model of choppy waters seen from above.
  For this technique the canvas was usually prepared with no more than a preliminary coating of glue size.
  From the center of the room, both small and large pieces looked like pulled fabric across a canvas.
  Ever resourceful, she has even discovered a supplier of prepared canvasses and water based oil paint in Naklua.
  The larger pieces are completed on canvases while the smaller pieces use a wooden surface.
  Each student has produced a painting on a circular canvas, a linocut, two ceramic plates, and a piece of text.
  His show's roughly two dozen pieces offered up his standard menu of hectic and deliberately crude brushwork on ratty-looking unstretched canvases.
  There is at least a tacit nod to the unprepared canvases of Color Field paintings.
  Both Warhol and Rauschenberg extended the technique by screenprinting a design onto a canvas to serve as the basis of a painting.
  It is more difficult upon a piece of white paper to deceive the expert spectator than it is with a lot of oil paint upon a canvas.
  The first parcel arrived, but it contained paintings on thin canvases, and the range of colours was limited to those that Eli Jah had been able to obtain.
  Some pieces incorporate canvases printed with archival photographs - anonymous aerial views and street scenes.
  The second group consists of abstract paintings on stretched canvases.
2. 1.2 An oil painting.
  油画
  Turner's late canvases
  特纳的晚期油画。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This sort of abstract illusionism brings to mind certain early canvases by Bridget Riley.
  He published three books of poetry, painted landscapes and abstract expressionist canvases, and played what he called cowboy harmonica for just about anyone who would listen.
  Unabashedly physical, the surfaces of Bhavsar's canvases luxuriate in a granular abundance of color.
  These vibrant color fields have an affinity with the spiritual-esthetic aura of Mark Rothko's canvases.
  Below it is the Cubist Gallery, filled with canvases by Picasso, Braque, and Gris as well as sculptures by Matisse and Giacometti.
  This is most notable in the new sense of a journey across the paintings, from dawn to bright daylight to night, revealed after the removal of the dark varnishes on the canvases by Muller and Delacroix.
  Another show sporting canvases with geometric surfaces is Simon Ingram's Garden at Vavasour Godkin.
  This exhibition brings together seven of J.M.W. Turner's large canvases along with 96 watercolors, a number of which are related to the paintings.
  In the course of that summer, he completed 30 canvases and 20 drawings; Matisse around half that number.
  The resulting painterly effects evoke old-master canvases as well as introductory chapters in the history of photography.
  It's a little as if each hard-edged shape in her precisely chaotic canvases were a piece extracted from an entirely different jigsaw puzzle.
  A conceptual dimension arises from Caillouet's addition of words imprinted in the surfaces of her monochrome canvases, which are shown in multipaneled groups.
  The 40 canvasses, watercolours, drawings, photographs and sculptures all have a Thai ambiance, though not all subjects are landscapes.
  She activates the luscious surfaces of her mostly poured and splashed oil-and-alkyd canvases by means of clashing colors and textures.
  Also included in the exhibition are canvasses by Gauguin and a late ‘Bathers’ by Cezanne.
  The show also featured earlier work: six canvases and four smaller pastel drawings.
  His colorful canvases often depict peasant life in Mexico, which he transformed into magical scenes.
  During the 1930s his work included large canvases depicting the life of working people in a style influenced by Picasso and Léger.
  They left with a dozen paintings - including canvases by Rembrandt, Manet, Degas and Vermeer - worth a staggering $300m.
  Even today, Gauguin's canvases strike viewers with their raw power, and not surprisingly they shocked Parisian audiences of his own time.
  Synonyms
  painting, picture, drawing, sketch, likeness, image, study, representation, portrayal, depiction
3. 1.3 A variety of canvas with an open weave, used as a basis for tapestry and embroidery.
  （用作挂毯或刺绣底料的）网形粗布，十字布
  Example sentencesExamples
  If politics was one thread weaving through the canvas of John MacKenna's young life, then teaching was another.
  Tirianna carefully sneaked over to the tapestry and Sicirin pulled her beneath the embroidered canvas.
  They may be school children but this does not stop them from weaving stories on canvas.
  I could see the weave of the canvas underneath in places.
4. 1.4the canvas The floor of a boxing or wrestling ring, having a canvas covering.
  （铺帆布的）拳击台地面；摔跤场地面
  Example sentencesExamples
  The other times Louis hit the canvas was a result of what is commonly referred to as a flash knockdown.
  Shortly before the bout took place, torrential rain fell and the canvas was drenched.
  In less than five minutes, both fighters hit the canvas eleven times and Dempsey was knocked out of the ring.
  He was open to a counter and Chi connected with a great right to the body and a big left uppercut that sent Brodie down to the canvas and looking in pain.
  In their first meeting, Zulu knocked out Kamanga in the first round but the challenger accused Zulu of wrestling him to the canvas.
  So when I stepped into the ring of Swindon's 4 Front Wrestling and found blood stains covering the canvas I didn't exactly feel comfortable.
  Jimmy twice had the iron jawed Bonevena on the canvas, something Joe Frazier could not do in 25 rounds of fighting.
  Ingle was out cold the second the left hook connected with his chin and he was motionless on the canvas as his corner men, paramedics and doctors scrambled through the ropes to save his life.
  From where I was sitting, I could see Tunney's back as Dempsey crumbled to the canvas.
  The place where she's landed could be the canvas of a boxing ring, that's how happy she is to be home.
  Within the first minute Chavez walked into a Morales right uppercut and he hit the canvas.
  Then it comes, one of the most vicious right uppercuts I've ever seen, and lands flush on Frazier's chin and he sinks to the canvas.
  In the fourth round, Liston finally connected and sent Martin to the canvas.
  The floor is filthy, there are piles of rubbish in the corners and the canvas of the ring itself is stained with blood.
5. 1.5 Either of a racing boat's tapering ends, originally covered with canvas.
  （原为用帆布遮盖的）赛艇尖端
  Example sentencesExamples
  Two spots were available and coming out of the start four boats remained within a canvas of each other.
  In the final sprint barely a canvas separated Germany, Estonia and Great Britain with this order remaining the same at the finish.
  Pulling out a final sprint Todorovich and Popovic reduced a boat length deficit down to a canvas as they closed in on Greece.
  However Great Britain had a true race on their hands as Slovenia put the pressure on staying within a canvas of Great Britain throughout the race.
  New Zealand had the best of the start holding half a canvas at 500 gone.
  He kept the heat on Hungary right to the line finishing a mere canvas behind.
  Only 250 metres was left and the United States had barely a canvas over Great Britain.
  But France heard the call and responded giving just enough to cross the finish line a mere canvas ahead of Great Britain.
  In Lucerne it was a dead heat with Italy and in Munich barely a canvas separated them and Belarus.
  China and Russia made a race of the women's pair C final crossing the line within half a canvas of each other - China in front.

verbˈkanvəsˈkænvəs

[with object]usually be canvased

Cover with canvas.
用帆布覆盖
the door had been canvased over
门被盖上帆布。
Synonyms
solicit, seek, drum up

Phrases

by a canvas

(in boat racing) by a small margin.
（赛艇比赛中）以毫厘之差
Example sentencesExamples
- This time they only beat us by a canvas (just the end bit of the boat with no people in it).
- First Denmark gained the leading edge, holding on to it, although only by a canvas over Olympic spare Djordje Visacki rowing in bow seat for Serbia & Montenegro.
- Here's the Selborne crew which beat Dale by a canvas in a thrilling race on the Buffalo River on Saturday: P le Roux, I McJannet, D Dennison, M Cole and J Bothma.

under canvas

1In a tent or tents.
在帐篷里
the family will be living under canvas
全家将住在帐篷里。
Example sentencesExamples
- Few things are more exciting to children than sleeping under canvas, particularly when there's a beach outside their tent flaps.
- Tents are essentially small stately homes under canvas - teak furniture, proper beds, flush WCs, bucket showers, laundry service.
- The girls slept under canvas and cooked their own meals over a campfire.
- Great temporary camps were formed, at Turton, Edgworth, Doffcocker and Heaton, where thousands of soldiers lived under canvas.
- Make a tent - recreate the thrill of being under canvas by pegging old sheets or blankets over the washing line or rotary dryer and weighting them at the corners to create a tent.
- If, however, you don't fancy a night under canvas, why not book into a local B&B or stay in Perth or Edinburgh and use the shuttle buses?
- Lying awake at 5: 30 a.m. on a rapidly deflating airbed in a freezing field at Stoke Poges is not conducive to starting you out on a life under canvas, although it did seem to be for others.
- With a team of 15 other students and staff from Bury Grammar School, the 17-year-old from Norden will sleep under canvas for a month to make a better environment for a chosen village.
- Accommodation is under canvas or in remote shepherds' huts.
- The expedition will give the cadets the opportunity to develop skills in hiking, cycling, kayaking, orienteering and living under canvas.
2With sails spread.
扬着帆，扯满帆
Example sentencesExamples
- In Cuyp's representation the tautness of their bent masts under canvas mimics the bulges of the cows' ribs through their slack hides.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old Northern French canevas, based on Latin cannabis ‘hemp’, from Greek.

单词	canvas
释义	Definition of canvas in English: canvas nounPlural canvases, Plural canvasses ˈkanvəsˈkænvəs mass noun 1A strong, coarse unbleached cloth made from hemp, flax, or a similar yarn, used to make items such as sails and tents and as a surface for oil painting. 帆布；油画布 the painting is oil on canvas as modifier a canvas bag Example sentencesExamples Fabrics such as twill, poplin, canvas, suede, denim and wool are also available in a variety of styles. The attack came as hundreds of troops were eating lunch under a large dining tent constructed of canvas and metal. Most of the miners lived in canvas tents, some of them large enough to accommodate several men, and there were a few log cabins. He makes a detailed drawing before he starts painting with oils on canvas or linen. Under the dripping red and white striped canvas of her tent, the secretary of Appleby Show summed up the day. Cover shrubs, the ground, and walkways with canvas drop cloths. Each ship was carrying gunpowder and the ships were made of wood with canvas sails. Bingham sprang from the car, hauling an old blue and gold canvas duffle bag. As he walked a little farther into the room he looked at the two beanbag shaped chairs made of unbleached cotton canvas which were placed on either side of the table and then he went over and sat in one. Behind them hundreds of canvas tents stretch into the flat spaces of the desert. Ropes, canvas, tent poles, rugs, and oil for lamps were all there. Sailcloth is a very strong, heavy canvas or duck made in plain weave. The cast members will be subsisting on 1897 type supplies: canvas tents, no mosquito repellent, canned and dry goods. The fabrics include washed denims, soft poplins, heavy canvas, twills, and yarn-dyed plaids. On a private patch of island we have a large green canvas safari tent. Dacron sails have also largely replaced canvas sailcloth. Eventually he saw them; the large wooden wagons covered with heavy canvas cloth and drawn by oxen. Leather is a key material for the season, along with parachute silk, cotton poplin, cotton canvas and shining silk. The camp is a level, dusty wilderness, the barren sameness of the plain broken only by row upon regimented row of bleached canvas tents. Herdsmen dwell in large tents made of canvas or woven yak wool. 1.1count noun A piece of canvas prepared for use as the surface for an oil painting. 油画布 they found a canvas and he seated his model he is used to painting large canvases Example sentencesExamples Fuzzy black material on the canvas's surface creates high relief topped by white paint, as in a model of choppy waters seen from above. There is at least a tacit nod to the unprepared canvases of Color Field paintings. His show's roughly two dozen pieces offered up his standard menu of hectic and deliberately crude brushwork on ratty-looking unstretched canvases. Once the canvas is prepared, the size and texture of the canvas determines the subject of the piece. Some pieces incorporate canvases printed with archival photographs - anonymous aerial views and street scenes. Each student has produced a painting on a circular canvas, a linocut, two ceramic plates, and a piece of text. For this technique the canvas was usually prepared with no more than a preliminary coating of glue size. The larger pieces are completed on canvases while the smaller pieces use a wooden surface. His hard-edged geometric paintings on diamond-shaped canvases were inspired by artists such as Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers. In the Black Paintings of Frank Stella, symmetry locks the image to the surface of the canvas. Coming prepared with several canvases already smudged with charcoal outlines she readied her supplies. The piece is divided into two separate canvases so that if the Blumenthals ever move to a home with lower ceilings, they can still display the artwork. It is more difficult upon a piece of white paper to deceive the expert spectator than it is with a lot of oil paint upon a canvas. Both Warhol and Rauschenberg extended the technique by screenprinting a design onto a canvas to serve as the basis of a painting. Ever resourceful, she has even discovered a supplier of prepared canvasses and water based oil paint in Naklua. The first parcel arrived, but it contained paintings on thin canvases, and the range of colours was limited to those that Eli Jah had been able to obtain. From the center of the room, both small and large pieces looked like pulled fabric across a canvas. The second group consists of abstract paintings on stretched canvases. The final piece is a blank canvas accompanied by a block of dense text larger than the work itself. Very few of Klimt's paintings were done on canvases, as he preferred to paint murals. 1.2count noun An oil painting. 油画 Turner's late canvases 特纳的晚期油画。 Example sentencesExamples She activates the luscious surfaces of her mostly poured and splashed oil-and-alkyd canvases by means of clashing colors and textures. They left with a dozen paintings - including canvases by Rembrandt, Manet, Degas and Vermeer - worth a staggering $300m. This sort of abstract illusionism brings to mind certain early canvases by Bridget Riley. Another show sporting canvases with geometric surfaces is Simon Ingram's Garden at Vavasour Godkin. In the course of that summer, he completed 30 canvases and 20 drawings; Matisse around half that number. Unabashedly physical, the surfaces of Bhavsar's canvases luxuriate in a granular abundance of color. Even today, Gauguin's canvases strike viewers with their raw power, and not surprisingly they shocked Parisian audiences of his own time. It's a little as if each hard-edged shape in her precisely chaotic canvases were a piece extracted from an entirely different jigsaw puzzle. A conceptual dimension arises from Caillouet's addition of words imprinted in the surfaces of her monochrome canvases, which are shown in multipaneled groups. This exhibition brings together seven of J.M.W. Turner's large canvases along with 96 watercolors, a number of which are related to the paintings. The 40 canvasses, watercolours, drawings, photographs and sculptures all have a Thai ambiance, though not all subjects are landscapes. These vibrant color fields have an affinity with the spiritual-esthetic aura of Mark Rothko's canvases. The show also featured earlier work: six canvases and four smaller pastel drawings. The resulting painterly effects evoke old-master canvases as well as introductory chapters in the history of photography. During the 1930s his work included large canvases depicting the life of working people in a style influenced by Picasso and Léger. Also included in the exhibition are canvasses by Gauguin and a late ‘Bathers’ by Cezanne. Below it is the Cubist Gallery, filled with canvases by Picasso, Braque, and Gris as well as sculptures by Matisse and Giacometti. He published three books of poetry, painted landscapes and abstract expressionist canvases, and played what he called cowboy harmonica for just about anyone who would listen. This is most notable in the new sense of a journey across the paintings, from dawn to bright daylight to night, revealed after the removal of the dark varnishes on the canvases by Muller and Delacroix. His colorful canvases often depict peasant life in Mexico, which he transformed into magical scenes. Synonyms painting, picture, drawing, sketch, likeness, image, study, representation, portrayal, depiction 1.3 A variety of canvas with an open weave, used as a basis for tapestry and embroidery. （用作挂毯或刺绣底料的）网形粗布，十字布 she sent her needle stabbing in and out of the canvas Example sentencesExamples Tirianna carefully sneaked over to the tapestry and Sicirin pulled her beneath the embroidered canvas. They may be school children but this does not stop them from weaving stories on canvas. I could see the weave of the canvas underneath in places. If politics was one thread weaving through the canvas of John MacKenna's young life, then teaching was another. 1.4the canvas The canvas-covered floor of a boxing or wrestling ring. （铺帆布的）拳击台地面；摔跤场地面 a thunderous uppercut sent him crashing to the canvas Example sentencesExamples The place where she's landed could be the canvas of a boxing ring, that's how happy she is to be home. In the fourth round, Liston finally connected and sent Martin to the canvas. In their first meeting, Zulu knocked out Kamanga in the first round but the challenger accused Zulu of wrestling him to the canvas. So when I stepped into the ring of Swindon's 4 Front Wrestling and found blood stains covering the canvas I didn't exactly feel comfortable. From where I was sitting, I could see Tunney's back as Dempsey crumbled to the canvas. Ingle was out cold the second the left hook connected with his chin and he was motionless on the canvas as his corner men, paramedics and doctors scrambled through the ropes to save his life. Within the first minute Chavez walked into a Morales right uppercut and he hit the canvas. The other times Louis hit the canvas was a result of what is commonly referred to as a flash knockdown. Shortly before the bout took place, torrential rain fell and the canvas was drenched. Then it comes, one of the most vicious right uppercuts I've ever seen, and lands flush on Frazier's chin and he sinks to the canvas. He was open to a counter and Chi connected with a great right to the body and a big left uppercut that sent Brodie down to the canvas and looking in pain. The floor is filthy, there are piles of rubbish in the corners and the canvas of the ring itself is stained with blood. Jimmy twice had the iron jawed Bonevena on the canvas, something Joe Frazier could not do in 25 rounds of fighting. In less than five minutes, both fighters hit the canvas eleven times and Dempsey was knocked out of the ring. 1.5count noun Either of a racing boat's tapering ends, originally covered with canvas. （原为用帆布遮盖的）赛艇尖端 Example sentencesExamples In the final sprint barely a canvas separated Germany, Estonia and Great Britain with this order remaining the same at the finish. China and Russia made a race of the women's pair C final crossing the line within half a canvas of each other - China in front. In Lucerne it was a dead heat with Italy and in Munich barely a canvas separated them and Belarus. Two spots were available and coming out of the start four boats remained within a canvas of each other. New Zealand had the best of the start holding half a canvas at 500 gone. However Great Britain had a true race on their hands as Slovenia put the pressure on staying within a canvas of Great Britain throughout the race. But France heard the call and responded giving just enough to cross the finish line a mere canvas ahead of Great Britain. Only 250 metres was left and the United States had barely a canvas over Great Britain. Pulling out a final sprint Todorovich and Popovic reduced a boat length deficit down to a canvas as they closed in on Greece. He kept the heat on Hungary right to the line finishing a mere canvas behind. verbcanvassing, canvassed, canvases, canvasses, canvased, canvasing ˈkanvəsˈkænvəs [with object] Cover with canvas. 用帆布覆盖 the door had been canvassed over 门被盖上帆布。 Synonyms solicit, seek, drum up Phrases by a canvas (in boat racing) by a very small margin. （赛艇比赛中）以毫厘之差 Example sentencesExamples First Denmark gained the leading edge, holding on to it, although only by a canvas over Olympic spare Djordje Visacki rowing in bow seat for Serbia & Montenegro. This time they only beat us by a canvas (just the end bit of the boat with no people in it). Here's the Selborne crew which beat Dale by a canvas in a thrilling race on the Buffalo River on Saturday: P le Roux, I McJannet, D Dennison, M Cole and J Bothma. under canvas 1In a tent or tents. 在帐篷里 the family will be living under canvas 全家将住在帐篷里。 Example sentencesExamples If, however, you don't fancy a night under canvas, why not book into a local B&B or stay in Perth or Edinburgh and use the shuttle buses? With a team of 15 other students and staff from Bury Grammar School, the 17-year-old from Norden will sleep under canvas for a month to make a better environment for a chosen village. Make a tent - recreate the thrill of being under canvas by pegging old sheets or blankets over the washing line or rotary dryer and weighting them at the corners to create a tent. Accommodation is under canvas or in remote shepherds' huts. Tents are essentially small stately homes under canvas - teak furniture, proper beds, flush WCs, bucket showers, laundry service. Great temporary camps were formed, at Turton, Edgworth, Doffcocker and Heaton, where thousands of soldiers lived under canvas. The expedition will give the cadets the opportunity to develop skills in hiking, cycling, kayaking, orienteering and living under canvas. The girls slept under canvas and cooked their own meals over a campfire. Lying awake at 5: 30 a.m. on a rapidly deflating airbed in a freezing field at Stoke Poges is not conducive to starting you out on a life under canvas, although it did seem to be for others. Few things are more exciting to children than sleeping under canvas, particularly when there's a beach outside their tent flaps. 2With sails spread. 扬着帆，扯满帆 fishermen whose boats still travel under canvas Example sentencesExamples In Cuyp's representation the tautness of their bent masts under canvas mimics the bulges of the cows' ribs through their slack hides. Origin Late Middle English: from Old Northern French canevas, based on Latin cannabis 'hemp', from Greek. You can smoke cannabis (late 18th century), or, more legally, make canvas out of its fibre. The versatile cannabis plant, also known as hemp (ultimately from the same root), gives its name to the fabric, as both come from Latin cannabis. To win a race or competition by a canvas is to win it very narrowly. The canvas here is the tapered front end of a racing boat, covered with canvas to keep water out. In the early16th century the verb canvass meant ‘to toss someone in a canvas sheet’, as a punishment or as part of a game. Other early meanings included ‘to beat’ and ‘to criticize severely’. This led on to the idea of discussing an issue, and then to proposing something for discussion. Finally, the word acquired the meaning ‘to seek support’, as in ‘to canvass for votes’ at an election. Rhymes canvass noun.1 phr. Definition of canvas in US English: canvas nounˈkanvəsˈkænvəs 1A strong, coarse unbleached cloth made from hemp, flax, cotton, or a similar yarn, used to make items such as sails and tents and as a surface for oil painting. 帆布；油画布 as modifier a canvas bag Example sentencesExamples Cover shrubs, the ground, and walkways with canvas drop cloths. Bingham sprang from the car, hauling an old blue and gold canvas duffle bag. The fabrics include washed denims, soft poplins, heavy canvas, twills, and yarn-dyed plaids. Leather is a key material for the season, along with parachute silk, cotton poplin, cotton canvas and shining silk. Sailcloth is a very strong, heavy canvas or duck made in plain weave. The attack came as hundreds of troops were eating lunch under a large dining tent constructed of canvas and metal. Eventually he saw them; the large wooden wagons covered with heavy canvas cloth and drawn by oxen. Behind them hundreds of canvas tents stretch into the flat spaces of the desert. The camp is a level, dusty wilderness, the barren sameness of the plain broken only by row upon regimented row of bleached canvas tents. The cast members will be subsisting on 1897 type supplies: canvas tents, no mosquito repellent, canned and dry goods. On a private patch of island we have a large green canvas safari tent. As he walked a little farther into the room he looked at the two beanbag shaped chairs made of unbleached cotton canvas which were placed on either side of the table and then he went over and sat in one. Dacron sails have also largely replaced canvas sailcloth. He makes a detailed drawing before he starts painting with oils on canvas or linen. Most of the miners lived in canvas tents, some of them large enough to accommodate several men, and there were a few log cabins. Fabrics such as twill, poplin, canvas, suede, denim and wool are also available in a variety of styles. Ropes, canvas, tent poles, rugs, and oil for lamps were all there. Each ship was carrying gunpowder and the ships were made of wood with canvas sails. Under the dripping red and white striped canvas of her tent, the secretary of Appleby Show summed up the day. Herdsmen dwell in large tents made of canvas or woven yak wool. 1.1 A piece of canvas cloth prepared for use as the surface for an oil painting. 油画布 Example sentencesExamples His hard-edged geometric paintings on diamond-shaped canvases were inspired by artists such as Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers. Very few of Klimt's paintings were done on canvases, as he preferred to paint murals. In the Black Paintings of Frank Stella, symmetry locks the image to the surface of the canvas. The final piece is a blank canvas accompanied by a block of dense text larger than the work itself. Coming prepared with several canvases already smudged with charcoal outlines she readied her supplies. The piece is divided into two separate canvases so that if the Blumenthals ever move to a home with lower ceilings, they can still display the artwork. Once the canvas is prepared, the size and texture of the canvas determines the subject of the piece. Fuzzy black material on the canvas's surface creates high relief topped by white paint, as in a model of choppy waters seen from above. For this technique the canvas was usually prepared with no more than a preliminary coating of glue size. From the center of the room, both small and large pieces looked like pulled fabric across a canvas. Ever resourceful, she has even discovered a supplier of prepared canvasses and water based oil paint in Naklua. The larger pieces are completed on canvases while the smaller pieces use a wooden surface. Each student has produced a painting on a circular canvas, a linocut, two ceramic plates, and a piece of text. His show's roughly two dozen pieces offered up his standard menu of hectic and deliberately crude brushwork on ratty-looking unstretched canvases. There is at least a tacit nod to the unprepared canvases of Color Field paintings. Both Warhol and Rauschenberg extended the technique by screenprinting a design onto a canvas to serve as the basis of a painting. It is more difficult upon a piece of white paper to deceive the expert spectator than it is with a lot of oil paint upon a canvas. The first parcel arrived, but it contained paintings on thin canvases, and the range of colours was limited to those that Eli Jah had been able to obtain. Some pieces incorporate canvases printed with archival photographs - anonymous aerial views and street scenes. The second group consists of abstract paintings on stretched canvases. 1.2 An oil painting. 油画 Turner's late canvases 特纳的晚期油画。 Example sentencesExamples This sort of abstract illusionism brings to mind certain early canvases by Bridget Riley. He published three books of poetry, painted landscapes and abstract expressionist canvases, and played what he called cowboy harmonica for just about anyone who would listen. Unabashedly physical, the surfaces of Bhavsar's canvases luxuriate in a granular abundance of color. These vibrant color fields have an affinity with the spiritual-esthetic aura of Mark Rothko's canvases. Below it is the Cubist Gallery, filled with canvases by Picasso, Braque, and Gris as well as sculptures by Matisse and Giacometti. This is most notable in the new sense of a journey across the paintings, from dawn to bright daylight to night, revealed after the removal of the dark varnishes on the canvases by Muller and Delacroix. Another show sporting canvases with geometric surfaces is Simon Ingram's Garden at Vavasour Godkin. This exhibition brings together seven of J.M.W. Turner's large canvases along with 96 watercolors, a number of which are related to the paintings. In the course of that summer, he completed 30 canvases and 20 drawings; Matisse around half that number. The resulting painterly effects evoke old-master canvases as well as introductory chapters in the history of photography. It's a little as if each hard-edged shape in her precisely chaotic canvases were a piece extracted from an entirely different jigsaw puzzle. A conceptual dimension arises from Caillouet's addition of words imprinted in the surfaces of her monochrome canvases, which are shown in multipaneled groups. The 40 canvasses, watercolours, drawings, photographs and sculptures all have a Thai ambiance, though not all subjects are landscapes. She activates the luscious surfaces of her mostly poured and splashed oil-and-alkyd canvases by means of clashing colors and textures. Also included in the exhibition are canvasses by Gauguin and a late ‘Bathers’ by Cezanne. The show also featured earlier work: six canvases and four smaller pastel drawings. His colorful canvases often depict peasant life in Mexico, which he transformed into magical scenes. During the 1930s his work included large canvases depicting the life of working people in a style influenced by Picasso and Léger. They left with a dozen paintings - including canvases by Rembrandt, Manet, Degas and Vermeer - worth a staggering $300m. Even today, Gauguin's canvases strike viewers with their raw power, and not surprisingly they shocked Parisian audiences of his own time. Synonyms painting, picture, drawing, sketch, likeness, image, study, representation, portrayal, depiction 1.3 A variety of canvas with an open weave, used as a basis for tapestry and embroidery. （用作挂毯或刺绣底料的）网形粗布，十字布 Example sentencesExamples If politics was one thread weaving through the canvas of John MacKenna's young life, then teaching was another. Tirianna carefully sneaked over to the tapestry and Sicirin pulled her beneath the embroidered canvas. They may be school children but this does not stop them from weaving stories on canvas. I could see the weave of the canvas underneath in places. 1.4the canvas The floor of a boxing or wrestling ring, having a canvas covering. （铺帆布的）拳击台地面；摔跤场地面 Example sentencesExamples The other times Louis hit the canvas was a result of what is commonly referred to as a flash knockdown. Shortly before the bout took place, torrential rain fell and the canvas was drenched. In less than five minutes, both fighters hit the canvas eleven times and Dempsey was knocked out of the ring. He was open to a counter and Chi connected with a great right to the body and a big left uppercut that sent Brodie down to the canvas and looking in pain. In their first meeting, Zulu knocked out Kamanga in the first round but the challenger accused Zulu of wrestling him to the canvas. So when I stepped into the ring of Swindon's 4 Front Wrestling and found blood stains covering the canvas I didn't exactly feel comfortable. Jimmy twice had the iron jawed Bonevena on the canvas, something Joe Frazier could not do in 25 rounds of fighting. Ingle was out cold the second the left hook connected with his chin and he was motionless on the canvas as his corner men, paramedics and doctors scrambled through the ropes to save his life. From where I was sitting, I could see Tunney's back as Dempsey crumbled to the canvas. The place where she's landed could be the canvas of a boxing ring, that's how happy she is to be home. Within the first minute Chavez walked into a Morales right uppercut and he hit the canvas. Then it comes, one of the most vicious right uppercuts I've ever seen, and lands flush on Frazier's chin and he sinks to the canvas. In the fourth round, Liston finally connected and sent Martin to the canvas. The floor is filthy, there are piles of rubbish in the corners and the canvas of the ring itself is stained with blood. 1.5 Either of a racing boat's tapering ends, originally covered with canvas. （原为用帆布遮盖的）赛艇尖端 Example sentencesExamples Two spots were available and coming out of the start four boats remained within a canvas of each other. In the final sprint barely a canvas separated Germany, Estonia and Great Britain with this order remaining the same at the finish. Pulling out a final sprint Todorovich and Popovic reduced a boat length deficit down to a canvas as they closed in on Greece. However Great Britain had a true race on their hands as Slovenia put the pressure on staying within a canvas of Great Britain throughout the race. New Zealand had the best of the start holding half a canvas at 500 gone. He kept the heat on Hungary right to the line finishing a mere canvas behind. Only 250 metres was left and the United States had barely a canvas over Great Britain. But France heard the call and responded giving just enough to cross the finish line a mere canvas ahead of Great Britain. In Lucerne it was a dead heat with Italy and in Munich barely a canvas separated them and Belarus. China and Russia made a race of the women's pair C final crossing the line within half a canvas of each other - China in front. verbˈkanvəsˈkænvəs [with object]usually be canvased Cover with canvas. 用帆布覆盖 the door had been canvased over 门被盖上帆布。 Synonyms solicit, seek, drum up Phrases by a canvas (in boat racing) by a small margin. （赛艇比赛中）以毫厘之差 Example sentencesExamples This time they only beat us by a canvas (just the end bit of the boat with no people in it). First Denmark gained the leading edge, holding on to it, although only by a canvas over Olympic spare Djordje Visacki rowing in bow seat for Serbia & Montenegro. Here's the Selborne crew which beat Dale by a canvas in a thrilling race on the Buffalo River on Saturday: P le Roux, I McJannet, D Dennison, M Cole and J Bothma. under canvas 1In a tent or tents. 在帐篷里 the family will be living under canvas 全家将住在帐篷里。 Example sentencesExamples Few things are more exciting to children than sleeping under canvas, particularly when there's a beach outside their tent flaps. Tents are essentially small stately homes under canvas - teak furniture, proper beds, flush WCs, bucket showers, laundry service. The girls slept under canvas and cooked their own meals over a campfire. Great temporary camps were formed, at Turton, Edgworth, Doffcocker and Heaton, where thousands of soldiers lived under canvas. Make a tent - recreate the thrill of being under canvas by pegging old sheets or blankets over the washing line or rotary dryer and weighting them at the corners to create a tent. If, however, you don't fancy a night under canvas, why not book into a local B&B or stay in Perth or Edinburgh and use the shuttle buses? Lying awake at 5: 30 a.m. on a rapidly deflating airbed in a freezing field at Stoke Poges is not conducive to starting you out on a life under canvas, although it did seem to be for others. With a team of 15 other students and staff from Bury Grammar School, the 17-year-old from Norden will sleep under canvas for a month to make a better environment for a chosen village. Accommodation is under canvas or in remote shepherds' huts. The expedition will give the cadets the opportunity to develop skills in hiking, cycling, kayaking, orienteering and living under canvas. 2With sails spread. 扬着帆，扯满帆 Example sentencesExamples In Cuyp's representation the tautness of their bent masts under canvas mimics the bulges of the cows' ribs through their slack hides. Origin Late Middle English: from Old Northern French canevas, based on Latin cannabis ‘hemp’, from Greek. noun.1 phr.
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