(transitive) To cover (an area or object) with canvas.

A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings. / A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.

Obsolete spelling of canvass

Obsolete spelling of canvass

(figuratively) Something with no content, upon which one can easily impose or project one's point of view. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blank, canvas.

(nautical) Having the sails unfurled; under sail. / Living in tents.

(business, management) A diagram mapping the benefits of a company's product or service to the needs and desires of a potential customer.

simple past tense and past participle of canvas

(US) plural of canvas

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canvas