canvas

Definitions

• A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
• A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
• A basis for creative work.
• (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
• (nautical) Sails in general.
• A tent.
• A painting, or a picture on canvas.
• 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.
• (alternative spelling of) canvass.