英语词汇“canvas”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

can·vas

(kănvəs)

1. A heavy, coarse, closely woven fabric of cotton, hemp, or flax, traditionally used for tents and sails.

a. A piece of such fabric on which a painting, especially an oil painting, is executed.

b. A painting executed on such fabric.

3. A fabric of coarse open weave, used as a foundation for needlework.

4. The background against which events unfold, as in a historical narrative: a grim portrait of despair against the bright canvas of the postwar economy.

5. Nautical A sail or set of sails.

a. A tent or group of tents.

b. A circus tent.

7. Sports The floor of a ring in which boxing or wrestling takes place.

Idiom:

under canvas

1. Nautical With sails spread.

2. In a tent or tents.

[Middle English canevas, from Old French and from Medieval Latin canavāsium, both ultimately from Latin cannabis, hemp; see CANNABIS.]

单词	canvas
释义	can·vas (kănvəs) n. 1. A heavy, coarse, closely woven fabric of cotton, hemp, or flax, traditionally used for tents and sails. 2. a. A piece of such fabric on which a painting, especially an oil painting, is executed. b. A painting executed on such fabric. 3. A fabric of coarse open weave, used as a foundation for needlework. 4. The background against which events unfold, as in a historical narrative: a grim portrait of despair against the bright canvas of the postwar economy. 5. Nautical A sail or set of sails. 6. a. A tent or group of tents. b. A circus tent. 7. Sports The floor of a ring in which boxing or wrestling takes place. *Idiom:* *under canvas* 1. Nautical With sails spread. 2. In a tent or tents. [Middle English canevas, from Old French and from Medieval Latin canavāsium, both ultimately from Latin cannabis, hemp; see CANNABIS.]
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