Canvas vs Cambric - What's the difference?
canvas | cambric |
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.
A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
A basis for creative work.
(computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
(nautical) sails in general
A tent.
A painting, or a picture on canvas.
* Macaulay
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.
To cover an area or object with canvas.
A finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton.
* 1851 George Dodd, Charles Knight - Knight's Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations, 1851
As nouns the difference between canvas and cambric
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 cambric is a finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton.As a verb canvas
is to cover an area or object with canvas.canvas
English
(wikipedia canvas)Noun
(en-noun) (see usage notes)- 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. \
- The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies .
- He spent the night under canvas .
- (Goldsmith)
- Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.
- (Grabb)
Usage notes
The plural is used in the UK and most UK-influenced areas.Verb
(es)cambric
English
Alternative forms
* cambrick (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia cambric)- Scotch cambric', now largely manufactured, is a kind of imitation ' cambric , made from fine hard-twisted cotton.