canvas or canvass
Heavy cloth, whether in the frame of a painting or on the floor of a boxing ring, is canvas, with one S.To survey ballots or voters is to canvass them, with two S’s.
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Definitions
- n a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
- n an oil painting on canvas fabric
- n the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account
the crowded canvas of history
the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound - n a tent made of canvas fabric
- n a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
- n the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete
the boxer picked himself up off the canvas - v solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign
- v get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
- v cover with canvas
She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks - v consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
- n the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account
- n an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
- n a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
- n a tent made of canvas fabric
- n an oil painting on canvas fabric
- n the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete
- n a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
- n a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
- n an oil painting on canvas fabric
- n the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account
- n a tent made of canvas fabric
- n a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
- n the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete
- v get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
- v solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign
- v consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
- v solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign
- v get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
- v cover with canvas
She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks - v consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
News & Articles
- Jupiter Systems Introduces Canvas 2.0, the New Generation of Its Award-Winning, Multipoint Visualization ...
Jupiter Systems, the leading worldwide supplier of collaborative visualization solutions for video walls, PCs, and mobile devices, introduced today Canvas 2.0, the new generation of its award-winning multipoint visualization and collaboration solution for the enterprise.
June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Jupiter Systems Introduces Canvas 2.0, the New Generation of Its Award-Winning, Multipoint Visualization ...
Jupiter Systems, the leading worldwide supplier of collaborative visualization solutions for video walls, PCs, and mobile devices, introduced today Canvas 2.0, the new generation of its award-winning multipoint visualization and collaboration solution for the enterprise.
June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - June 30: Blackboard Ends as Canvas Migration Completes
Eastern Washington University is in the final stages of migrating from Blackboard to Canvas and we are down to the last month of life for Blackboard. Please complete the download of all materials that you wish to save and/or transfer to Canvas by June 30, 2013, when access to EWU’s Blackboard server will be turned [...]
June 11, 2013 - The Easterner
- Huachuca City recount moving forward
HUACHUCA CITY — Following a brief special meeting to allow the town council to canvass last month’s general election results and request the recount of those results, two incumbents and one newly-elected council member were sworn into public offices on Monday. While the single vote separating the two candidates for mayor necessitates a recount by state law, any change in the final figures is not ...
June 12, 2013 - The Sierra Vista Herald - Dog wardens will canvass several townships for regulation violators
This week dog wardens will canvass homes in Smithfield and Middle Smithfield townships to ensure dog owners have current licenses and rabies vaccinations for their dogs.
June 11, 2013 - Pocono Record - Dog wardens will canvass several townships for regulation violators
This week dog wardens will canvass homes in Smithfield and Middle Smithfield townships to ensure dog owners have current licenses and rabies vaccinations for their dogs.
June 11, 2013 - Pocono Record