canvasnoun詞源 1/ˈkæn.vəs/

• 1

  A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings.

  • The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers, and wraps for meat, as for the best quality of ordinary table and shirting linen.
• 2

  A piece of such cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint an artwork.

  • She is painting a moonlight scene on the canvas.
  • Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.
• 3

  A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.

• 4

  A basis for creative work.

  • The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies
• 5

  computer-graphicscomputingengineeringA region on which graphics can be rendered.

• 6

  nauticaltransportSails in general.

  • The double desire of being able to overtake a weaker flying enemy, or to escape when pursued by a stronger, has induced the owners to overmast their cruisers, and to spread too much canvass; and the great number of men, many of them not seamen, who being upon deck when a ship heels suddenly are huddled down to leeward, and increase by their weight the effect of the wind.
• 7

  A tent.

  • He spent the night under canvas.
• 8

  A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.

canvasverb詞源 1/ˈkæn.vəs/

• 1

  To cover (an area or object) with canvas.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• canvass