Oleograph vs. Canvas
Oleograph and Canvas Definitions
Oleograph
A chromolithograph printed with oil paint on canvas in imitation of an oil painting.
Canvas
A heavy, coarse, closely woven fabric of cotton, hemp, or flax, traditionally used for tents and sails.
Oleograph
(arts) A type of chromolithograph, using oil paint on canvas, that attempts to imitate oil painting
Canvas
A piece of such fabric on which a painting, especially an oil painting, is executed.
Oleograph
The form or figure assumed by a drop of oil when placed upon water or some other liquid with which it does not mix.
Canvas
A painting executed on such fabric.
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Oleograph
A picture produced in oils by a process analogous to that of lithographic printing.
Canvas
A fabric of coarse open weave, used as a foundation for needlework.
Canvas
The background against which events unfold, as in a historical narrative
A grim portrait of despair against the bright canvas of the postwar economy.
Canvas
(Nautical) A sail or set of sails.
Canvas
A tent or group of tents.
Canvas
A circus tent.
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Canvas
(Sports) The floor of a ring in which boxing or wrestling takes place.
Canvas
A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
Canvas
(painting)
Canvas
A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
Canvas
A painting, or a picture on canvas.
Canvas
A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
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Canvas
(figuratively) A basis for creative work.
The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies
Canvas
(computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
Canvas
(nautical) Sails in general.
Canvas
A tent.
He spent the night under canvas.
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.
Canvas
(Nigeria) Athletic shoes.
Canvas
Obsolete spelling of canvass
Canvas
(transitive) To cover (an area or object) with canvas.
Canvas
Obsolete spelling of canvass
Canvas
A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; - used for tents, sails, etc.
By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led.
Canvas
A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.
History . . . does not bring out clearly upon the canvas the details which were familiar.
Canvas
Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas.
To suit his canvas to the roughness of the see.
Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.
Canvas
A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
Canvas
Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.
Canvas
Heavy closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
Canvas
An oil painting on canvas
Canvas
The setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account;
The crowded canvas of history
The movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound
Canvas
A tent made of canvas
Canvas
A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
Canvas
The mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete;
The boxer picked himself up off the canvas
Canvas
Solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign
Canvas
Get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
Canvas
Cover with canvas;
She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks
Canvas
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
