Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - canvas
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(canvases) 1. Canvas is a strong, heavy cloth that is used for making things such as tents, sails, and bags. ...a canvas bag. N-UNCOUNT 2. A canvas is a piece of canvas or similar material on which an oil painting can be done. N-VAR 3. A canvas is a painting that has been done on canvas. The show includes canvases by masters like Carpaccio, Canaletto and Guardi. = painting N-COUNT
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I. noun also ~s Etymology: Middle English canevas, from Anglo-French canevas, chanevaz, from Vulgar Latin *cannabaceus hempen, from Latin cannabis hemp — more at cannabis Date: 13th century 1. a firm closely woven cloth usually of linen, hemp, or cotton used for clothing and formerly much used for tents and sails 2. a set of sails ; sail 3. a piece of ~ used for a particular purpose 4. tent; also a group of tents 5. a. a piece of cloth backed or framed as a surface for a painting; also the painting on such a surface b. the background, setting, or scope of a historical or fictional account or narrative 6. a coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle 7. the ~-covered floor of a boxing or wrestling ring • ~like adjective II. transitive verb (-vased or -vassed; -vasing or -vassing) Date: 1556 to cover, line, or furnish with ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a a strong coarse kind of cloth made from hemp or flax or other coarse yarn and used for sails and tents etc. and as a surface for oil-painting. b a piece of this. 2 a painting on canvas, esp. in oils. 3 an open kind of canvas used as a basis for tapestry and embroidery. 4 sl. the floor of a boxing or wrestling ring. 5 a racing-boat's covered end. --v.tr. (canvassed, canvassing; US canvased, canvasing) cover with canvas. Phrases and idioms by a canvas (in boat-racing) by a small margin (win by a canvas). canvas-back a wild duck Aythya valisineria, of N. America, with back feathers the colour of unbleached canvas. under canvas 1 in a tent or tents. 2 with sails spread. Etymology: ME & ONF canevas, ult. f. L cannabis hemp ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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суровое грубое полотно; парусина; брезент - front canvas - graduated fusible canvas - hessian canvas - packing canvas - reversible chest canvas ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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1. холст; парусина; брезент canvas bag —- парусиновый мешок canvas cloth (sheet) —- брезент canvas tank —- мягкая тара canvas belt —- тех. полотняная лента (транспортера) 2. собир. паруса 3. (за)грунтованное полотно; полотно, холст; картина (маслом) 4. собир. картины, живопись 5. картина, полотно (о романе, фильме и т. п.) to fill up a canvas —- чтобы дополнить картину 6. канва (также cross-stitch canvas) 7. марля 8. ам. палатка, шатер; шапито, передвижной цирк 9. ам. жизнь артистов цирка Id: under canvas —- воен. в палатках; в цирке(-шапито); мор. с поднятыми парусами; под парусами 10. закрыть, накрыть или подбить парусиной, холстом, брезентом 11. оснастить парусами 12. редк. = canvass ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) холст, парусина; брезент 2) парус; collect. паруса, суда 3) полотно; холст, картина 4) канва - under canvas ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 strong cloth used to make bags, tents, shoes etc 2 a painting done with oil paints, or the piece of cloth it is painted on 3 under canvas BrE in a tent (We spent the night under canvas.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1354, from Anglo-Fr. canevaz, from O.Fr. canevas, from V.L. *cannapaceus "made of hemp," from L. cannabis, from Gk. kannabis "hemp," a Scythian or Thracian word. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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