Dictionary Entry
canvas
canvas is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.
- 2noun
A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.
- 3noun
A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
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.
- 6adjective
Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.
- 7noun
a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
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- 8noun
the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete
"the boxer picked himself up off the canvas"
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- 9noun
an oil painting on canvas fabric
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- 10noun
a tent made of canvas fabric
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- 11noun
a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
- 12noun
the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account
"the crowded canvas of history"
"the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound"
Synonyms
- 13verb
consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
"analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"
"analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"
- 14verb
cover with canvas
"She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks"
- 15verb
get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
- 16verb
solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign
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