canvas
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6.7
- noun
- /ˈkænvəs/
:
lona
- The boxer fell hard to the canvas after receiving a powerful punch.
Well, it stinks just to hit the canvas.
- Well, it stinks just to hit the canvas.
- He feels his feet leave the ground and his neck and head hit the canvas.
- He was unconscious in the air and then hit his head on the canvas.
Examples
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Gallant fell to the canvas, broken and defeated.
Fiction book (2002) -
I'm gonna pick you up off the canvas.
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Now Johnson is on the canvas.
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I look up, man, I'm on the canvas, I hear the crowd going crazy.
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Mr. Cameron will be on the canvas before the first round even starts.
Fiction book (1995) -
That is the first time in his career he's been on the canvas.
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After hitting the canvas in the first round, he's making a real fight of it.
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He scores heavily with a quick and sending Moon to the canvas.
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Too Sweet connected with a vicious right hook and sent Jesse "The Bull" Amos to the canvas.
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Durán putting Pazienza on the canvas in round 1.
Synonyms
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1.0
A flat piece of material placed on the floor, like a doormat or gym mat
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2.8
A thick padded surface that wrestlers use to avoid injury when they fall
Compounds
- Archaic
The most sail a ship can carry safely without turning over or being damaged
Surface Forms
Etymology
The boxing canvas is called that because the ring floor was covered with heavy canvas cloth, so people began to call the mat the 'canvas'.