[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

canvas \can"vas\, n. oe. canvas, canevas, f. canevas, ll.
   canabacius hempen cloth, canvas, l. cannabis hemp, fr. g. ?.
   see hemp.
   1. a strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for
      tents, sails, etc.
      1913 webster

            by glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led.
                                                  --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   2.
      a a coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for
          working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted
          work.
      b a piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been
          prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in
          oil.
          1913 webster

                history . . . does not bring out clearly upon
                the canvas the details which were familiar. --j.
                                                  h. newman.
          1913 webster

   3. something for which canvas is used:
      a a sail, or a collection of sails.
      b a tent, or a collection of tents.
      c a painting, or a picture on canvas.
          1913 webster

                to suit his canvas to the roughness of the see.
                                                  --goldsmith.
          1913 webster

                light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of
                claude.                           --macaulay.
          1913 webster

   4. a rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary
      or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the
      measure of the verses he is to make. --grabb.
      1913 webster
see also:
hemp 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

canvas \can"vas\, a.
   made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse
   cloth; as, a canvas tent.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

canvas
     n 1: heavy closely woven fabric used for clothing or chairs or
          sails or tents syn: canvass
     2: an oil painting on canvas syn: canvass
     3: the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic
        account; "the crowded canvas of history"; "the movie
        demanded a dramatic canvas of sound" syn: canvass
     4: a tent made of canvas syn: canvas tent, canvass
     5: a large piece of fabric as canvas by means of which wind
        is used to propel a sailing vessel syn: sail, canvass,
         sheet
     6: the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or
        professional wrestlers compete; "the boxer picked himself
        up off the canvas" syn: canvass
     v 1: solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign
          syn: canvass
     2: get the opinions of people by asking specific questions
        syn: poll, canvass
     3: cover with canvas; "she canvassed the walls of her living
        room so as to conceal the ugly cracks"
     4: 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" syn: analyze, analyse,
         study, examine, canvass
see also:
canvass canvas tent sail sheet poll analyze 
analyse study examine 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

126 moby thesaurus words for "canvas":
   agora, air brush, amphitheater, aquarelle, arena, art paper,
   athletic field, auditorium, background, bear garden, big top,
   boltrope, bowl, boxing ring, brush, bull ring, camera lucida,
   camera obscura, campus, chalk, charcoal, circus, clew, cloth,
   cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, course, crayon, cringle,
   crowd of sail, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, earing, easel,
   easel-picture, field, finger painting, fixative, floor, foot,
   fore-and-aft sail, forum, gouache, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall,
   head, hippodrome, lay figure, leech, lists, locale, luff,
   marketplace, mat, maulstick, medium, milieu, muslin, oil,
   oil painting, open forum, paint, paintbrush, painting, palaestra,
   palette, palette knife, parade ground, pastel, pencil, pigments,
   pit, place, plain sail, platform, precinct, press of sail,
   prize ring, public square, purlieu, rag, range, reduced sail,
   reef point, reefed sail, ring, round top, sail, scene,
   scene of action, scenery, scratchboard, setting, siccative, site,
   sketchbook, sketchpad, spatula, sphere, spray gun, square sail,
   squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, stump,
   tempera, tent, tentage, terrain, theater, tilting ground, tiltyard,
   top, varnish, walk, wash, wash drawing, water, whitetop,
   wrestling ring

[5] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

canvas, wv
  zip codes: 26662

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