Synonyms for canvas
ˈkæn vəscan·vas

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1. canvas, canvassnoun

   a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)

   Synonyms:
   canvas tent, poll, sail, canvass, opinion poll, sheet, public opinion poll

2. canvas, canvassnoun

   an oil painting on canvas fabric

   Synonyms:
   canvas tent, poll, sail, canvass, opinion poll, sheet, public opinion poll

3. canvas, canvassnoun

   the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account

   "the crowded canvas of history"; "the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound"

   Synonyms:
   canvas tent, poll, sail, canvass, opinion poll, sheet, public opinion poll

4. canvas tent, canvas, canvassnoun

   a tent made of canvas fabric

   Synonyms:
   canvas tent, poll, sail, canvass, opinion poll, sheet, public opinion poll

5. sail, canvas, canvass, sheetnoun

   a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

   Synonyms:
   rag, canvas tent, bed sheet, public opinion poll, weather sheet, plane, sheet, flat solid, tack, sheet of paper, sail, canvass, shroud, poll, tabloid, mainsheet, opinion poll, piece of paper, cruise

6. canvas, canvassverb

   the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete

   "the boxer picked himself up off the canvas"

   Synonyms:
   canvas tent, poll, sail, canvass, opinion poll, sheet, public opinion poll

7. canvass, canvasverb

   solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign

   Synonyms:
   analyse, canvass, poll, analyze, study, examine

8. poll, canvass, canvasverb

   get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions

   Synonyms:
   analyze, poll, study, canvass, examine, analyse, pollard

9. canvasverb

   cover with canvas

   "She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks"

   Synonyms:
   analyse, study, poll, canvass, analyze, examine

10. analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvasverb

    consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

    "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives"

    Synonyms:
    examine, contemplate, try out, psychoanalyse, consider, essay, meditate, psychoanalyze, break down, hit the books, test, learn, dissect, canvass, analyse, read, take apart, study, poll, take, try, analyze, probe, prove, see

Matched Categories

1. • Cover
   • Fabric
   • Oil Painting
   • Piece Of Cloth
   • Setting
   • Tent

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1. canvasnoun

   Synonyms:
   tarpaulin, coutil

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1. List of paraphrases for "canvas":

   toile, painting, weave, web, cloth, sling, twill, screen, ticking, tarp

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1. Daisy Jacobs:

   The life size technique that I've been doing is as though you're creating a real world, you can walk in the space, the characters are as tall as you are, and there's something about wanting the illustrated world to come out of the canvas and be real, that I really like. You're stepping into your own painting.

2. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   I love women more on canvas than real life, for they seldom change on canvas!”

3. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire:

   Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

4. Bob Buehner:

   It didn't seem like there was any overall game plan that made sense in terms of a systematic investigation, one of the things I'd asked them to do from the first couple weeks is now impossible to do -- to do a hotel-motel canvas looking for the mystery woman seen with Ray and then match the names with photo IDs which police have access to.

5. Michael Kimmel:

   Women have changed what it means to be a woman and embrace a much larger human canvas. Men are still painting on half the canvas.