canvas
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6.0
- noun
- /ˈkænvəs/
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lienzo
- But in the desert, we are alone and must face the blank canvas of nature.
- a blank canvas
- a large canvas
- the film's canvas
You want that kind of open canvas and they're free.
- You want that kind of open canvas and they're free.
- There's a broad canvas still remaining for all sorts of research.
- It really just gives you a fresh canvas.
- And yeah, where anything is possible and the world is a a vast and glorious canvas for self exploration.
- Just magenta, green, brown, pink, yellow, red, Violet flying off the mythological canvas.
- You know, it's the big tornado of human life summed up on a canvas.
- There's a very narrow little circle of things that work in business and there's a massive canvas of things that don't work in business.
- So it's it's as if you had the canvas and then you ordered up.
Examples
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I wanted this house to be a blank canvas for you and your sister when we moved in.
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A story was beginning to take place in the center of the canvas.
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This whole city is my canvas.
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And yeah, where anything is possible and the world is a a vast and glorious canvas for self exploration.
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The story of our lives painted on canvas or etched in stone.
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How apropos that you'd have chosen jungles for your canvas.
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I believe my mama's sycamore tree... was the prettiest spot on my canvas.
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Now, to the untrained eye, all this might look dangerous and haphazard, but your father is an artiste and this is his canvas.
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There's a very narrow little circle of things that work in business and there's a massive canvas of things that don't work in business.
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This whole city is my canvas.
Synonyms
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6.0
The scenery and objects used on a stage or film
169
2.4
A place or situation where events happen
42
4.8
The place and time where a story or scene happens
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3.0
The scenery and props arranged to show a place in a play or film
Compounds
- Archaic
The most sail a ship can carry safely without turning over or being damaged
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word canvas can mean a wide setting because artists use a large piece of canvas to show a scene, so writers and filmmakers call a big background a 'canvas'.