(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.
Render
Definition:
(n.) One who rends.
(v. t.) To return; to pay back; to restore.
(v. t.) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
(v. t.) To give up; to yield; to surrender.
(v. t.) Hence, to furnish; to contribute.
(v. t.) To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment.
(v. t.) To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure.
(v. t.) To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.
(v. t.) To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner.
(v. t.) To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow.
(v. t.) To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.
(v. i.) To give an account; to make explanation or confession.
(v. i.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way.
(n.) A surrender.
(n.) A return; a payment of rent.
(n.) An account given; a statement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Expression of transfected CD4 on the surface of HeLa and other human cells renders them susceptible to HIV infection 10.
(2) If an E. coli Gal-U mutant strain, defective in the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) carbohydrate chain length, was used, each approach rendered 100% labelling.
(3) The use of sulphur-containing amino acids and 2-deoxyglucose in growth media led to impaired cell wall synthesis and rendered cells very susceptible to treatment with mercapto-ethanol and various lytic enzymes.
(4) This was capable of sensitizing human thyroid (and other) cells and rendering them susceptible to killing by normal lymphocytes.
(5) The conventional explanation for the high fatality rate due to cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonitis among allogeneic transplant recipients is that immunosuppression renders the host unable to control replication of this opportunistic agent.
(6) This chapter describes a systematic approach to the art of collection for services rendered, based primarily on a pay-as-you-go philosophy.
(7) Newborn rats were rendered hyperthyroid (daily subcutaneous injections of L-triiodothyronine, 10 micrograms 100 g-1 body weight) or hypothyroid (0.05% 6-n-propyl-2-thiouracil in drinking water to nursing mothers) during the first 3 weeks of postnatal life.
(8) The rapidity of obtaining the results (within one hour), the complete absence of untoward reactions to the radiopharmaceuticals, the much lower frequency of subtle or indeterminate results, the ability to render useful information in the presence of moderate jaundice and the lack of interference from overlying intestinal contents establishes these radionuclide agents as superior to both radiographic oral and intravenous cholangiography in the investigation of the acute abdomen.
(9) Most ears are rendered dry and safe, with cavity problems minimized by careful technique.
(10) All initially positive patients were rendered tilt negative by therapy.
(11) In a noncontracting in vitro preparation of combined right and left atria we demonstrated by electron microscopy that, at 37 degrees C, transition from zero pressure to a physiological distending pressure of 5.1 mm Hg rapidly rendered atrial endocardial endothelium permeable to the macromolecular probes horseradish peroxidase (HRP; M(r), approximately 40,000) and wheat germ agglutinin-HRP (M(r), approximately 70,000); each probe was introduced at the atrial cavitary endocardial surface.
(12) Davis said he would be surprised if an incoming Conservative government did not set up an immediate inquiry into this case and others where Britain is alleged to have been involved in the secret rendering by the US of detainees to prison where they were likely to be tortured.
(13) (c) A greater than 80% reduction in clone PAK 17.15 lung colony number was observed in mice rendered thrombocytopenic by i.v.
(14) Exact comparisons of recovery of ocular tone (Maddox Wing test) between the anaesthetics were not possible as both Althesin and methohexitone rendered some patients incapable of taking the tests in the early post-operative period.
(15) (vii) Two deletions within the EBNA-2 gene which rendered EBV transformation incompetent did not transactivate LMP1, whereas a transformation-competent EBNA-2 deletion mutant did transactivate LMP1.
(16) Psychiatrists in the U.S. have raised a host of issues related to their experience with peer review including a concern for the patient's confidentiality, the need to correlate normative standards with local customary practice, the significance of the reviewer's theoretical orientation and training, the optimal documentation required and the impact of peer review on the reimbursement of claims for services rendered.
(17) Thus, the solid-phase synthesis of peptides selectively deprotected at the side chain of tyrosine is rendered possible by the use of 2-chlorotrityl resin and Fmoc-Tyr(Trt)-OH.
(18) Either vaccine given at full dosage alone, or in combination, rendered birds resistant to homologous viral challenge.
(19) This erratic course renders difficult assessment of the efficacy of methods of treatment.
(20) Off came defensive midfielder Claudio Yacob, rendered surplus to requirements by the dismissals of Afellay and Adam, and on went forward Rickie Lambert.