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canvas

7 definitions • 7 examples
1
strong, rough cloth used for making tents, sails, bags, strong clothes, etc.
2
a piece of this cloth used by artists for painting on, usually with oil paints, or the painting itself:

Examples:

These two canvases by Hockney would sell for £1,500,000.
3
in a tent:

Examples:

I love sleeping under canvas.
4
in boxing and wrestling, the floor of the ring (= the area where fighters compete):

Examples:

The Mexican attempted to get up off the canvas but the fight was stopped.
hit the canvas He hit the canvas (= was hit or thrown down so hard he fell to the floor) for the second time from a right hook.
5
in the sport of rowing (= making a boat move through water by pushing against the water with poles with flat ends), the covered part at the front of the boat, used as a way of measuring how far a boat is in front of another one:

Examples:

The Swiss team had pulled a canvas in front at the halfway point.
It was a close race all the way but the French eight won by a canvas.
6
strong, rough cloth made from cotton or other fibers, used for making tents, sails, strong bags, or work clothes
7
Canvas is also the cloth artists paint on, or such a painting itself:

Examples:

[ C ] Two valuable canvases hung in the room.

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