canvas
(kænvəs )
Word forms: canvases
1. uncountable noun B2
Canvas is a strong, heavy cloth that is used for making things such as tents, sails, and bags.
...a canvas bag.
2. variable noun
A canvas is a piece of canvas or similar material on which an oil painting can be done.
3. countable noun
A canvas is a painting that has been done on canvas.
The show includes canvases by masters like Carpaccio, Canaletto and Guardi. [+ by]
4. under canvas phrase [PHRASE after verb, noun PHRASE]
If you are living and sleeping under canvas, you are living and sleeping in a tent.
Campsites in the New Forest quickly filled up as thousands decided to spend the holiday under canvas.
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Collocations:
broad canvas canvas painting canvas panel canvas tent canvas tote cotton canvas green canvas huge canvas large canvas painted canvas stretch a canvas stretched canvas vast canvas
It has left us with tiny patches of overworked detail on a broad canvas of smudges.
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To others, this was to overlook that in many of his lost causes he chose as a matter of strategy to paint on a broad canvas with a large brush.
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And often — as here, again — such stories are painted on a broad canvas, the better to illustrate the theme at work across a whole culture or society.
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Its stated aim was to describe the major processes and events of world history across a broad canvas and omit tiny details of, say, ruling families, minor battles etc.
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Keeping a complicated shaped canvas painting clean can require care and attention that can be avoided by sticking to flat-surfaced paintings.
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The oil on canvas painting measures 274 by 603 cm.
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Each room was filled with pictures, maquettes, masks and costumes, and the walls were adorned with large canvas paintings.
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Last week, it was selling electric bikes for 275 - 52% less than a recommended retail price of 570 - and canvas paintings for 29.99, 77% off their 129 price-tag.
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Canvas paintings that extend the viewer's perspective of the artwork and incorporate multidimensional movement are the earliest examples of kinetic art.
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She paints straight onto walls or (less expensive) canvas panels.
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He also made paintings on 12 x 16 in. canvas panels.
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In her work standardized canvas panels are mounted as modules onto a steel frame within which they can be moved and rotated.
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Materials includes oil and magna on two canvas panels.
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The whole area was being corded off and a canvas tent placed over the body itself.
COFFIN ON THE WATER (1990)
Working from a canvas tent amid constant gunfire, life quickly boiled down to the basics.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
One is a canvas tent, or yurt.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
As for the grown-ups, they'll be down below in a shabby-chic canvas tent with a sleigh bed and a roll-top bath.
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Come prepared with your own beach-ready carrier: choose something casual and unponcy — a simple blue canvas tote, for example.
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Nowadays leather straps (with a designer label) jostle for position alongside the humble canvas tote bag.
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Now the ubiquitous canvas tote has been given a makeover — on the catwalk.
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Fans of reusable coffee cups, canvas tote bags and organic cotton were also rated as more masculine than the average guy.
The Sun
Researchers found that taking a canvas tote along to the supermarket can influence how people shop.
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Theirs are reassuringly solid and made of natural cotton canvas.
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The translucent fabric can be hoisted like an old-fashioned cotton canvas sail, with 'ropes' strung through metal eyelets.
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He painted on cardboard, canvas board, linen or cotton canvas, chipboard and plywood.
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Room dividers can be made from many materials, including wood, fabric, plexiglass, framed cotton canvas, pleated fabric or mirrors.
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In the early 20th century, cotton canvas, often referred to as cotton duck, came into use.
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She spent her first night as a married woman under its green canvas roof.
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Inside was a green canvas shoulder bag.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
She glanced toward the back of the big truck, whose cargo was concealed under a long green canvas cover.
MAMBO (2002)
Early meetings of the society were convened in his house, where he had knocked down a wall to create a huge canvas for projecting images.
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On one huge canvas with a projector, you can see whatever the camera sees in real time.
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Living in his bubble of fame means a footballer's experience can be turned inside out, projecting his individual experiences and actions on to a huge canvas.
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Optimism flooded a huge canvas, a bright, open space.
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He ordered a huge canvas, designed a special stretcher for it, and spent years coating the canvas with multiple layers of the special underlays.
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Now the subject, garbed in rich velvet cape and matching feather-adorned bonnet fills a large canvas with a sense of his confidence.
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Each room was filled with pictures, maquettes, masks and costumes, and the walls were adorned with large canvas paintings.
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Assured without being smug and enthusiastic without being exhausting, he paints a large canvas and fills it with telling detail.
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When combined with great wealth, this talent can be used on a large canvas, and the restoration of the couple's houses has always been her domain.
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He grabs a large canvas, 90in by 60in to be exact, and skilfully slips it out of the front door to lean it against the outside of the building.
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Found object or expertly painted canvas, as long as you're beautiful, you get in.
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In film and stage, mattes can be physically huge sections of painted canvas, portraying large scenic expanses of landscapes.
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The absence here of oil, organisms, metal pins, etc. on painted canvas or panel will surprise many.
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For a large production with many scene changes, the rigging loft could be heavily loaded with painted canvas.
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The wall sculptures, starting with a painted canvas base, are built up with layers of found objects and painted wood.
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The oak panels had a tendency to move out of kilter, stretching the canvas and causing damage to the painting.
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To create frames, he cut branches from a tree in his garden and stretched the canvas over.
Globe and Mail
He builds the stretchers, stretches the canvases, and primes them himself.
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He then stretches the canvas onto frames/stretchers which he has designed specially to take the force of stretching the canvas, which doesn't involve any cross-bracing.
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Participants wore her sculptures and placed a hand through a stretched canvas to shake the hands of passers-by.
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The roofs of woodie wagons were usually made of stretched canvas that was treated with a waterproofing dressing.
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The ring itself has around 1 in of padding covered by stretched canvas.
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In some of these works, the individual stretched canvases are moveable and are intended to be rearranged.
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At the other end of the hangar a vast canvas - an entire backdrop - lies flat on the f loor, being soaked with blue paint.
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Nearby, a vast canvas leans against the wall with what looks like the early stages of an image of herself, lying prone and vulnerable.
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The family sagas in this vast canvas are of scarcely believable tenacity and endurance.
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Over such a vast canvas, some slips of the brush may be detected by scholars with other perspectives.
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With its towering columns and shimmering silks, this vast canvas meets the demands of traditional state portraiture.
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Translations:
Chinese: 帆布
Japanese: キャンバス