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Canvas vs Sandshoe - What's the difference?

canvas | sandshoe |

As nouns the difference between canvas and sandshoe

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 sandshoe is (scotland|australia|new zealand) a sports or walking shoe with canvas upper and rubber sole; a sneaker.

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.

    • sandshoe

    English

    (wikipedia sandshoe)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland, Australia, New Zealand) A sports or walking shoe with canvas upper and rubber sole; a sneaker.
  • * 1986 , Pete Thomas, The Coalminers of Queensland , Volume I: Creating the Traditions, Queensland Colliery Employees Union, page 325,
    • Later, however, the union ran into a problem of a severe shortage of sandshoes' in Queensland. The rationing authorities, in reply to a union request on this, said that the Chief Inspector of Coalmines had condemned use of ' sandshoes in mines as being “not conducive to health or safety.”
  • * 2003 , Peter Plowman, Across the Sea to War: Australian and New Zealand Troop Convoys from 1865 through two World Wars to Lorea and Vietnam , Rosenberg Publishing, Australia, page 387,
    • Sandshoes had been issued for shipboard use, to avoid damage to the decks by hob-nailed boots.
  • * 2007 , Melissa Harper, The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia , UNSW Press, page 272,
    • The sandshoe versus the boot; this is an issue that has stirred the blood of bushwalkers for more than fifty years.The demise of the ubiquitous hob-nailed boot (circa 1950s) in favour of a boot with a patterned rubber sole generated concern, but the popularity of a boot that combined a rubber sole and a canvas upper with no ankle support simply went too far for some.
  • * 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 81:
    • But because yer sandshoes , if they were dirty, it was a point off yer team, so ye were just to try yer hardest.

    See also

    * tennis shoe, trainer