Meaning canvas
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"sturdy cloth made from hemp or flax," mid-14c., from Anglo-French canevaz, Old North French canevach, Old French chanevaz, literally "made of hemp, hempen," noun use of Vulgar Lat [..]
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Cotton or linen woven cloth used as a surface for painting. Related: Andy Warhol. Campbell's Soup Cans. 1962 Barnett Newman. The Voice. 1950 Clyfford Still. 1944-N No. 2. 1944 Helen Frankenthaler [..]
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A heavy-weight cloth made from cotton, hemp, or linen.
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heavy, woven cloth.
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Canvas is one of the most commonly used supports for painting. It consists of strong unbleached cloth, usually of hemp or flax, fixed over a wooden framework. Canvas is normally primed before being pa [..]
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Canvas is a strong, woven cloth traditionally used by artists as a support (surface on which to paint)
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tough strong cloth used for tents and sails and for painting pictures on
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A cloth made from hemp and used for the sails. A ship in motion by her sails is said to be “Under canvas.”
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In art, the rough fabric on which oil paintings are made.
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The background of a storyboard where you add and arrange UI elements.
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The HTML <canvas> element provides an empty graphic zone on which specific JavaScript APIs can draw (such as Canvas 2D or WebGL). Learn more General knowledge
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A heavy, coarse, closely woven fabric of cotton, hemp, or flax, commonly used for totes, tents and sails. Also known as: canvass, Toile, Kanevas, Tela, Lona, lona
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Cotton, linen, or synthetic in heavy weights with an even firm weave, great for digital printing art reproductions.
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a tightly woven heavy and durable fabric made of cotton, linen or synthetic material.
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a rectangular region on which you can draw lines and geometric shapes or text. Think of it as a blank canvas where you can roll your own drawing with precise positioning. In contrast, a panel is used [..]
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(v) cover with canvas(v) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning(n) a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tent [..]
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A fabric painting support usually composed of linen, cotton, or hemp, and sometimes of jute (burlap) or ramie, or mixtures of these. (Figure 1.)
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WNC’s online learning management system.
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A way of weaving cotton in a plain stitch fashion to create an inflexible surface built for strength. More resistant to water than synthetics such as Nylon, yet is heavier in weight. The two fabrics are usually blended together, or combined in different areas to have the best abilities from both. Typically used in tents and rucksacks.
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A durable, tightly woven cotton material known for its strength.  Canvas
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A woven cloth used as a support for painting. The best-quality canvas is made of linen; other materials used are cotton, hemp, and jute. It is now so familiar a material that the word 'canvas [..]
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1. a tightly woven fabric, originally made of hemp, linen, then cotton, used for sails and awnings. New sails are usually made of Dacron and Nylon or composites.   2. all encompassing term for a set o [..]
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Tightly woven cloth used for sails, awnings, covers, dodgers and biminis; slang for sails.
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to sift: hence, metaphorically, to prove
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The screen in which our graphics programs are drawn. Canvas
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Closely woven cloth used as a support for paintings.
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A heavy, woven fabric used for support for artwork, usually oil paintings, and considered desirable by painters because of the regular texture and flexibility. The negative is that canvas can expand o [..]
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Canvas is usually stretched across a wooden frame called a stretcher, and may be coated with gesso before it is to be used, though gesso is rather brittle and susceptible to cracking. Various alternat [..]
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Commonly used as a support for oil or acrylic painting. Canvas is a heavy woven fabric made of flax or cotton. Its surface is typically prepared for painting by priming with a ground. Linen-- made of [..]
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Closely woven cloth used as a support for paintings.
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A strong, closely, woven fabric, which is often used as a surface for painting.
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Strong cloth made from flax or hemp used as a SUPPORT for paintings.
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A strong coarse cloth on which artist paint. Usually this cloth is stretched tightly over wood stretcher bards. Canvasses are stretched this way to “breathe” and adapt to climatic conditions.
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A cotton/poly blended media resembling painters canvas.
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Support made for acrylic and oil paintings, made from linen or cotton and stretched tightly over a wooden frame. Linen is a cloth material made from flax and far superior to cotton for paintings.
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Fabrics that are prepared and used for painting. They maybe in panels, stretched on frames, or obtained by the yard. Art canvas varies from very fine such as the linen type used by Red Rag Gallery art [..]
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A strong, coarse, unbleached, woven cloth made from hemp, flax or cotton to support oil or acrylic paintings.
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A coating on a canvas in preparation for painting.
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A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings. * '''1882''', James Edwin Thorold Rogers, ''A History of Agriculture and Prices in England' [..]
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