English Dictionary

canvas

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkænvəs/

名詞

比喩的用法 ナイジェリア英語

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.

日本語の意味

粗い麻または綿から作られた丈夫な布地。船の帆やテントの材料として、また絵画の制作における下地として利用される。 / 絵画制作に使用される、フレームに張られたキャンバス地。

They draped the weathered canvas over the camp frame to make a shelter from the storm.

彼らは嵐をしのぐために、その古びた帆布をキャンプの骨組みにかぶせて仮の避難所を作った。

意味（1）

A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents 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.

意味（2）

A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.

意味（3）

A painting, or a picture on canvas.

The canvas glowed, beyond e'en nature warm

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

(figuratively) A basis for creative work.

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

意味（6）

(computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.

意味（7）

(nautical) Sails 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.

意味（8）

A tent.

He spent the night under canvas.

意味（9）

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.

意味（10）

(Nigeria) Athletic shoes.

canvasses （ plural ）

canvases （ plural ）