(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.
Easel
Definition:
(n.) A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Man Booker prize body used Twitter to post an image of the longlist on an easel outside Buckingham Palace, mimicking the official announcement of the birth of the royal baby on Monday.
(2) 3 I had an easel of my own, but the top of it was nothing like Van Gogh's, so I fashioned a fake top out of scrap wood and lashed it to the easel with duct tape.
(3) Thus, it was concluded that the TDI can be used in lieu of the MacBeth Easel Lamp for screening color vision with the Ishihara test.
(4) The thing that jars as the Briton of years standing enters the airy Brent auditorium is the incongruity of the Queen's formal portrait perched atop a wooden easel.
(5) —You know, she added, standing before a large photograph of Wegener that was set on an easel, there is a resemblance between these two men.
(6) Barnes refused to sell any of the great Matisses or Cezannes that he bought virtually off the easel because he considered his collection greater than the sum of its parts.
(7) It was planned long before it opened six months after Freud's death, and included his last painting left unfinished on his easel.
(8) I see now that a lot of the argument in the late 60s was not that painting was dead, but that easel painting was dead.
(9) In this setting, he sustained until the end his ability to make portrayals of many of the people and animals who mattered to him (the one still on the easel, Portrait of a Hound), paintings that face-to-face are all-consuming and oddly liberating.
(10) Jahar Tsarnaev took them all away in the most brutal and painful way possible,” she said, gesturing to easels holding large pictures of the four victims.
(11) At this point no one would be that surprised if Kensington Palace put out an easel declaring that she is going to be Prince George's godmother.
(12) Tim Hall's portrait shows his wife in their shared studio, their slightly bored-looking pug by her side, and her portrait of René Redzepi of Noma in Copenhagen – repeatedly voted the best restaurant in the world – on her easel.
(13) With all of the fussing over the Duchess of Cambridge's birth plan and the fact that the announcement of the birth will be made via an easel outside Buckingham Palace , I'm comforted to know that she will be going through exactly the same indignity and terror that I am currently experiencing.
(14) Paget recently opened a shipping container and found hundreds of easels inside, ordered at the peak of Obama's surge for commanders in small outposts, keen to map out their offensives against the Taliban on whiteboards balanced on the wooden stands.
(15) In fact, this alternative procedure yields test performances for normal and deficient subjects on the 100-hue, panel D-15, and AO H-R-R tests that are virtually identical to those obtained using a standard Macbeth Easel Lamp.
(16) Like Kelly, Zogolovitch likes undesignated spots "where you might set up a cello or an easel or write a novel".
(17) "Excess easels, there were easels everywhere," he said, shaking his head.
(18) Trivelpiece, an exceptionally astute physicist, had heard the president's sight was failing, and prepared his presentation on two large easels, which he dragged into the Oval Office.
(19) Someone wheel out the gilded easel and announce its arrival!
(20) The two discussed how he should pose, before deciding on his confrontational stance and straight-to-easel glare.