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Canvas vs Baize - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between canvas and baize

is that canvas is a type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings while baize is a thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc.

As a verb canvas

is to cover an area or object with canvas.

canvas

English

(wikipedia canvas)

Noun

(en-noun) (see usage notes)
  • A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 556.
    • The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers, and wraps for meat, as for the best quality of ordinary table and shirting linen. \
  • A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
  • A basis for creative work.
    • The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies .
  • (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
  • (nautical) sails in general
  • A tent.
    • He spent the night under canvas .
  • A painting, or a picture on canvas.
    • (Goldsmith)
  • * Macaulay
    • Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.
  • 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.
    • (Grabb)

    • Usage notes

    The plural is used in the UK and most UK-influenced areas.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To cover an area or object with canvas.

    • baize

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc.
  • (dated) A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.
  • * 1719:
    • my goods being all English manufacture, such as cloths, stuffs, baize , and things particularly valuable and desirable in the country, I found means to sell them to a very great advantage...
  • * 1885:
    • At the further end, a flight of stairs mounted to a door covered with a red baize ; and through this, Mr. Utterson was at last received into the doctor's cabinet.