Canvas - English meaning

noun

A strong, coarse unbleached cloth made from hemp, flax, or a similar yarn, used to make items such as sails and tents and as a surface for oil painting.

Usage examples:

The painting is oil on canvas

verb

Cover with canvas.

Usage examples:

The door had been canvassed over

noun

Strong, rough cloth used for making tents, sails, bags, strong clothes, etc.

noun

A piece of this cloth used by artists for painting on, usually with oil paints, or the painting itself

Usage examples:

These two canvases by hockney would sell for £1,500,000.

noun

In a tent

Usage examples:

I love sleeping under canvas.

noun

In boxing and wrestling, the floor of the ring (= the area where fighters compete)

Usage examples:

The mexican attempted to get up off the canvas but the fight was stopped., hit the canvas he hit th…

noun

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

Usage examples:

The swiss team had pulled a canvas in front at the halfway point., it was a close race all the way …