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Canopy vs Canopylike - What's the difference?

canopy | canopylike |

As a noun canopy

is a high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.

As a verb canopy

is to cover with or as if with a canopy.

As an adjective canopylike is

resembling a canopy or some aspect of one.

canopy

English

Noun

(canopies)
  • A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
  • * Dryden
    • golden canopies and beds of state
  • Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
  • The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
  • In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
  • In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To cover with or as if with a canopy.
  • * Milton
    • A bank with ivy canopied .
  • To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.

    • See also

    * canopied * canopy bed English eponyms

    canopylike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a canopy or some aspect of one.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 24, author=The New York Times, title=Art in Review, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=It hangs, canopylike , from the ceiling of a gallery, making the exhibition look like a temporary encampment and like a shrine. }}