(n.) A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.
(n.) A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.
(n.) A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil.
(n.) Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas.
(n.) A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
(a.) Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.
Example Sentences:
(1) I’ve never really had that work versus life thing; it’s all part of the same canvas.
(2) Cooled by a floor fan, nurses, doctors and support staff in blue scrubs move through the small anteroom next to the isolation ward to juggle the needs of the desperately ill patients inside as a stream of people knock on the canvas door asking for updates on their loved ones.
(3) Overlaying the image are a few brusque swipes across the canvas, a gauzy smear of thin white paint, as if something had passed between us and the painting.
(4) Ofcom has already received a complaint from Virgin Media , which sees Canvas as an anti-competitive cartel that will crush the nascent online TV market.
(5) This act and the physical fact of it are what the pictures principally announce, even if the caption claims that they are impressions of the countryside around Rome and that this is what connects them to the Poussin canvas.
(6) For many men, Austen is the archetypal women's author – her canvas too domestic, her domain too girly, her men too starchy and conformist, her settings too chintzy and her plots too prim to excite the average male reader.
(7) The tented village around St Paul's – 200 canvas homes and counting – has acquired an increasingly permanent feel, and now boasts a bookshop, information centre and a prayer room.
(8) Project Canvas, the venture between BBC , ITV and BT to "bring catch-up from the PC to the TV", will cost the partners £24m to get up and running.
(9) Nothing in the process of picture-making can be certain, but it would be reasonable to assume that she sees a young man aged 23 or 24 standing a few feet away with a brush in his hand (such a delicate implement compared with a knife fit for cabbage stalks) and dabbing at a piece of canvas or board which is the picture's preparatory sketch.
(10) Meek will play an instrumental role in the selection of a Project Canvas chief executive.
(11) "[Project Canvas] is an important part of our future [and it] is also a way into ITV.com.
(12) It's like watching a Vermeer come to life – except that everyone on this canvas is screwing everyone else, or about to have a breakdown.
(13) "However, in order to ensure that any potential conclusions from the OFT's processes can be taken into account in the trust's own decision, we will await the OFT's findings and will publish our final conclusions on Project Canvas later this spring."
(14) He "be"s so intensely that I had to rush out, gasping for breath, back to the exhibits of canvas and paper.
(15) In the corner of the canvas, “A Hitler” is signed in red ink.
(16) October Everyone loves Halloween, and the PR team spots a perfect opportunity for Ed to mix this fun occasion with traditional politics: he'll do an old-school door-to-door canvas of local neighbourhoods, dressed as Freddie Krueger.
(17) In its response to the trust's conclusions, BSkyB raises issues over funding arrangements, says that the scope of Project Canvas is designed to favour free-to-air broadcasters, and claims that a "one size fits all" user interface will be the standard.
(18) These comments are part of a renewed attack by BSkyB on Project Canvas, the joint venture from the BBC, ITV, Channel Five and BT, in a new submission to the BBC Trust.
(19) Project Canvas has four partners, leaving each with a bill of £24.7m.
(20) Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" starkly depicts the horrors of war, etched into the faces of the people and the animals on the 20-by-30ft canvas.
Dungaree
Definition:
(n.) A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group of young men and women calling themselves the Salopards (Bastards) and wearing pink dungarees "to show you can be against gay marriage without being homophobic", was also there to "defend the family".
(2) "But I think he's on quite a learning curve, actually, because he said, 'You know, when she first came here, I thought she was going to be dressed in dungarees and have her hair cut short, and things like that.'
(3) A small tousled boy, wearing dungarees, white-skinned, picked it up.
(4) Britain's leading young feminist is no Andrea Dworkin sloganist, dramatising defiance via dungarees, nor a gladiatorial Germaine Greer show-off, nor another glossy Naomi Wolf .
(5) We don't own a pair of dungarees between us and although we did try to put up a shelf once, it wasn't a success.
(6) There was this great scene where a new inmate arrived and was quite stoical, but it turned out she was sharing a cell with this brilliantly dungareed lesbian, who starts copping a feel.
(7) His owners – a dribble of bohemian frizz and batik dungarees – have bitten off more than they can chew and are already looking for permission to put him down.
(8) Dungarees, moustache, all men are rapists, you know the drill...
(9) In fact, she quickly got pregnant and eschewed traditional maternity wear for voluminous trousers, braces and dungarees.
(10) A quintet of girls pitching their tents wearing cropped denim dungarees over Breton striped tops and Ray Bans were respectful to the Chung template.
(11) Others are less impressed, particularly following the V&A's 2007 exhibition dedicated to Kylie Minogue, which included her dungarees from the Australian soap Neighbours .
(12) If you were a woman, you were not, although you might be sent to features to report on dog fashion shows or dungarees.
(13) That charisma is why so many Brits fell in love with her as the dungaree-clad car mechanic Charlene in Australian soap Neighbours.
(14) You will not find either of us in dungarees putting up a shelf.
(15) I remain a respectful admirer of all he did for the male dungaree wearer.
(16) The Red Cross has brought a mobile field kitchen where men stir a vast vat of cabbage with a paddle, and there is a dusty warehouse piled high with donated clothes, from children's dungarees to white leather high-heeled boots.