canvas

canvas has 16 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.
• n.. A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.
• n.. A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil.
• n.. Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas.
• n.. A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
• a.. Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.
• n.. a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
• n.. the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete; "the boxer picked himself up off the canvas"
• n.. an oil painting on canvas fabric
• n.. a tent made of canvas fabric
• n.. a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
• n.. the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account; "the crowded canvas of history"; "the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound"