noun🔗ShareA type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings."The artist stretched the fresh canvasses over the wooden frames, ready to start painting his new series of landscapes. "materialartnauticalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint."The art student neatly arranged her paints and brushes in front of the stack of blank canvasses. "artmaterialChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA basis for creative work."The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies."artChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA region on which graphics can be rendered."The software provides multiple canvasses where artists can draw and paint different parts of the same digital artwork. "computingtechnologyareaChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareSails in general."The sailboat's sturdy canvasses billowed in the gentle breeze. "nauticalsailingmaterialChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA tent."He spent the night under canvas."materialbuildingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA painting, or a picture on canvas."The art gallery displayed several impressive canvasses of landscapes. "artChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA 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."The composer presented the poet with several canvasses of the melody, so he could understand the rhythm and structure before writing the lyrics. "literaturemusicwritingartChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAlternative spelling of canvass."The artist's studio was filled with canvasses of various sizes, some stretched and ready for painting. "artmaterialChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
