Synonym: analyse, analyze, canvas fabric, canvas tent, canvass, canvass fabric, examine, poll, sail, sheet, study. Similar words: invasion, vast, invade, in vain, vassal, devastating. Meaning: ['kænvəs] 
n. 1. a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents) 2. an oil painting on canvas fabric 3. the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account 4. a tent made of canvas fabric 5. a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel 6. the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete. v. 1. solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign 2. get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions 3. cover with canvas 4. consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning.
n. 1. a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents) 2. an oil painting on canvas fabric 3. the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account 4. a tent made of canvas fabric 5. a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel 6. the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete. v. 1. solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign 2. get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions 3. cover with canvas 4. consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning. 
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61. In her later works, large, amorphous shapes seem to float on the canvas.
62. Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece. Denis Waitley 
63. Painting on wall or canvas as dream of plenitude, painting on glass as revelation of potential in poverty.
64. If a painter wishes to paint a sombre portrait, he first covers the canvas entirely with a dull brown colour.
65. Using her bare hands, she smears paint on the canvas.
66. Darts shot through the steel-mesh and canvas wall of the cabin.
67. It slid to the base of the mast so we could lash down the flapping canvas with extra sail ties.
68. A large canvas of poppies provides a particularly attractive example of this aspect of her work.
69. They were put in canvas sacks and taken to the church in Godstowe for burial.
70. Life is a canvas. Every action of ours is a stroke of paint and at the end, how beautiful our painting is will depend upon all our strokes, all our actions. RVM
71. They carried huge canvas paintings depicting scenes from the Bible and classical times.
72. Building up from the surface of a board or canvas adds further dimension and vigour.
73. Two servants, their mouths and noses covered by rags, removed Cosmas's remains in a canvas sheet.
74. He doesn't ever touch a canvas with paint, but he gives me ideas.
75. And I goes over and touches that canvas with my toe and it is solid.
76. I lay very still, the hair rising on the back of my neck as something nudged me through the canvas.
77. The most notable of these were the silk, paper, sail canvas, and gin distilling industries.
78. I secured the locks on the wheelbarrow, crawled under canvas and wrote up the log and two letters.
79. A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. Leonardo da Vinci
80. The band of musician soldiers wrapped their bugles and drums in their canvas coverings.
81. Gabriel put them all into a canvas bag and hung them on a nail inside the cottage door.
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82. He found him sitting in his canvas chair beside a brazier, drinking Guinness with the chief armourer.
83. She was wearing a green print dress and a canvas hat with a sun visor.
84. The stables turned out to be remarkably solid structures for a travelling circus, made mostly of wood with canvas roofs.
85. McGowan walked to the car and returned with the long canvas bag and the cardboard box.
86. When scumbling on a canvas the surface is lightly agitated, so that the light which falls upon it is scattered.
87. He ignored Sir Ralph's corpse but lifted back the insignia over the hospitaller's and the canvas sheet which lay underneath.
88. The traditional awning, white canvas with black edges, fluttered in the breeze.
89. On one occasion he put his handprints on the painting as if beseeching the canvas to acknowledge the exiled body.
90. The man in the canvas chair threw his Daily Variety to the floor.