CANVASS
Definition:
- [noun] the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account; "the crowded canvas of history"; "the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound"
Synonyms: canvas
- [noun] an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
Synonyms: poll, opinion poll, public opinion poll
- [noun] a large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
Synonyms: sail, canvas, sheet
- [noun] a tent made of canvas
Synonyms: canvas tent, canvas
- [noun] an oil painting on canvas
Synonyms: canvas
- [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"
Synonyms: canvas
- [noun] heavy closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
Synonyms: canvas
- [verb] get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
Synonyms: poll, canvas
- [verb] solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign
Synonyms: canvas
- [verb] consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives"
Synonyms: analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvas
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Related Words:
- circularize, circularise
- circularize
- anatomize
- diagnose, name
- diagnose
- survey, appraise
- survey
- compare
- check, check up on, look into, check out, suss out, check over, go over, check into
- assay
- review, reexamine
- audit, scrutinize, scrutinise, inspect
- screen
- trace, follow
- investigate, look into
- sieve, sift
- view, consider, look at
- exit poll
- straw vote, straw poll
- balloon sail
- crossjack, mizzen course
- fore-and-aft sail
- foresail
- headsail
- mainsail
- main-topsail
- press of sail, press of canvas
- royal
- save-all
- skysail
- square sail
- topgallant, topgallant sail
- topsail
- circus tent, big top, round top, top
- field tent
- Sibley tent
- wall tent
- tarpaulin, tarp
