canvas
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
- hemp substance meronym
Sense 2 verb
solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign
Types & categories
- solicit hypernym
- circularize hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
an oil painting on canvas fabric
Types & categories
- oil painting hypernym
Sense 4 verb
get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
Types & categories
- survey hypernym
- circularize hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 noun
the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account
the crowded canvas of history
Types & categories
- setting hypernym
Sense 6 verb
cover with canvas
She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks
Types & categories
- cover hypernym
Sense 7 noun
a tent made of canvas fabric
Types & categories
- tent hypernym
- circus tent hyponym
- field tent hyponym
- Sibley tent hyponym
- wall tent hyponym
Sense 8 verb
consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- survey derivation
- analyzer derivation
- analytic thinking derivation
- examen derivation
- analyst derivation
Sense 9 noun
a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
Types & categories
- piece of cloth hypernym
- balloon sail hyponym
- crossjack hyponym
- fore-and-aft sail hyponym
- foresail hyponym
- headsail hyponym
- mainsail hyponym
- main-topsail hyponym
- press of sail hyponym
- royal hyponym
- save-all hyponym
- skysail hyponym
- square sail hyponym
- topgallant hyponym
- topsail hyponym
Parts & wholes
- sailing vessel part holonym
- reef part meronym
Related & opposite
Sense 10 noun
the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete
the boxer picked himself up off the canvas
Types & categories
- gym mat hypernym
Parts & wholes
- ring part holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | hemp |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | fabric |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | tarpaulin |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | poll |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | canvasser |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | solicit |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | circularize |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | oil painting |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | poll |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | pollster |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | survey |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | circularize |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | setting |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | cover |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | tent |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | circus tent |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | field tent |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | Sibley tent |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | wall tent |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | survey |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | analyzer |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | analytic thinking |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | examen |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | analyst |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | anatomize |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | diagnose |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | diagnose |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | survey |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | survey |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | compare |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | check |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | assay |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | review |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | audit |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | screen |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | trace |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | look into |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | sieve |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | view |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | sail |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | sail |
| 9 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | sailing vessel |
| 9 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | reef |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | piece of cloth |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | balloon sail |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | crossjack |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | fore-and-aft sail |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | foresail |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | headsail |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | mainsail |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | main-topsail |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | press of sail |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | royal |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | save-all |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | skysail |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | square sail |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | topgallant |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | topsail |
| 10 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | ring |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | gym mat |