canvasとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.vəs/
• (米国発音)
• Homophone: canvass

名詞

canvas (複数形 canvasses または 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

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 13, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 17:

     A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket.

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.

使用する際の注意点

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

派生語

• Canvastown

動詞

canvas (三人称単数 現在形 canvases, 現在分詞 canvasing, 過去形および過去分詞形 canvased)

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