Canopy vs Utopia - What's the difference?
canopy | utopia |
A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
* Dryden
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.
To cover with or as if with a canopy.
* Milton
To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-10
, author=Audrey Garric
, title=Urban canopies let nature bloom
, volume=188, issue=22, page=30
, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
As nouns the difference between canopy and utopia
is that canopy is a high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed while utopia is a world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.As a verb canopy
is to cover with or as if with a canopy.As a proper noun Utopia is
the satirical treatise on government by Sir Thomas More, from which the term {{term|utopia}} was coined.canopy
English
Noun
(canopies)- golden canopies and beds of state
Verb
(en-verb)- A bank with ivy canopied .
See also
* canopied * canopy bed English eponymsutopia
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.}}