different between sailcloth vs canvas

English

Etymology

sail +? cloth

Noun

sailcloth (usually uncountable, plural sailcloths)

1. A strong, durable fabric suitable for making sails for ships or boats.

Usage notes

• This term can be used even when the fabric is used for other purposes.

Translations

Anagrams

• lacoliths

English

Etymology

From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæn.v?s/
• (US)
• Homophone: canvass

Noun

canvas (plural canvasses or canvases) (see usage notes)

1. A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 556.

     The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers, and wraps for meat, as for the best quality of ordinary table and shirting linen.

2. A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
3. A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
4. (figuratively) A basis for creative work.

   The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies.

5. (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
6. (nautical) Sails in general.
7. A tent.

   He spent the night under canvas.

8. A painting, or a picture on canvas.
   • 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller

     The canvas glowed, beyond e'en nature warm
9. A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.

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10. Alternative spelling of canvass.

Usage notes

The plural canvases is used primarily in the US, while the plural canvasses is used in the UK and most UK-influenced areas.

Derived terms

• Canvastown

Translations

Verb

canvas (third-person singular simple present canvases, present participle canvasing, simple past and past participle canvased)

1. To cover an area or object with canvas.
2. Alternative spelling of canvass.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch canevas, from Old Northern French canevas, from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kánnabis). The spelling was lated influenced by English canvas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?n.v?s/
• Hyphenation: can?vas

Noun

canvas n (plural canvassen)

1. canvas, sail

   Synonym: zeildoek

2. canvas, fabric used for painting

   Synonym: schilderdoek

Related terms

• cannabis

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: kampas

Spanish

Noun

canvas m

1. canvas