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词汇 canvas
释义 canvas
noun
uk /ˈkæn.vəs/ us /ˈkæn.vəs/
[ U ]
strong, rough cloth used for making tents, sails, bags, strong clothes, etc.帆布
 
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[ C ]
a piece of this cloth used by artists for painting on, usually with oil paints, or the painting itself: 油画布;油画
These two canvases by Hockney would sell for £1,500,000.这两幅霍克尼的油画能卖到150万英镑。
 
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 under canvas
in a tent: 在帐篷里
I love sleeping under canvas.我喜欢睡帐篷。
 the canvas
in boxing and wrestling, the floor of the ring(= the area where fighters compete):
The Mexican attempted to get up off the canvas but the fight was stopped.
hit the canvas He hit the canvas (= was hit or thrown down so hard he fell to the floor) for the second time from a right hook.
A left hook spun Jones round and sent him crashing to the canvas.
The young boxer was knocked to the canvas in his debut bout.
[ C ]
in the sport of rowing (= making a boat move through water by pushing against the water with poles with flat ends), the covered part at the front of the boat, used as a way of measuring how far a boat is in front of another one:
The Swiss team had pulled a canvas in front at the halfway point.
It was a close race all the way but the French eight won by a canvas.
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canvas | American Dictionary


canvas
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈkæn·vəs/
strong, rough cloth made from cotton or other fibers, used for making tents, sails, strong bags, or work clothes
Canvas is also the cloth artists paint on, or such a painting itself:
[ C ]Two valuable canvases hung in the room.

Examples of canvas


canvas
Similar patterns, mutatis mutandis, emerge from the models predicting exposure to each party's telephone canvass.
Tellingly (considering what was to come later) he had the parish beadles canvass on his behalf.
However, exposure to the telephone canvass did not have as much impact on chances of being canvassed on the doorstep.
None of the six campaign spending coefficients in the telephone canvass equations were significant.
None of the telephone canvass dummies were significant.
One does not need to canvass before knowing who the leaders should be.
Chapter four deals with a series of late seventeenth-century canvases painted by at least two anonymous artists.
In later canvases, where theories of colouration and geometric composition came to dominate, shapes and colours may become the significant minimal unit.
From the seventeenth century onwards, drapery gained its freedom and took a life of its own filling canvases with impossible swirls and billows.
I then canvass alternative accounts of parenthood - namely, conventionalism, gestationalism, and intentionalism - but none succeeds in explaining reproductive cloning.
To some extent, therefore, this is complementary to the canvass, and can have an independent effect.
Furthermore, which is the more effective in mobilizing support: the doorstep or the telephone canvass?
Very few of the 'electoral context' variables are significant in the doorstep canvass equations.
The regidores acknowledged the victims as worthy of the municipality's esteem and agreed to inscribe their names in two canvases that would be displayed in the ayuntamiento's conference room.
Telephone campaigning may have had an impact - but it was not sufficiently large to pick up here, even though the impact of the doorstep canvass is clear from these data.
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Collocations withcanvas


canvas

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broad canvas
The articles cover the usual broadcanvas of interests.
canvas bag
The animal was restrained in a loose-fitting canvasbag and the head fixed to a plexiglass frame using the aluminum crown.
canvas roof
The film opens with water dripping through the canvasroof of a caravan onto the face of a crying baby.
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