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Canvas vs Web - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between canvas and web

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 web is the silken structure a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.

As verbs the difference between canvas and web

is that canvas is to cover an area or object with canvas while web is to construct or form a web.

As a proper noun web is

alternative case form of Web: the World Wide Web.

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.

    • web

    English

    (wikipedia web)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The silken structure a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
    • The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web .
  • Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.
  • * Hawthorne
    • the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-colour or gold
  • * Washington Irving
    • Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures.
  • Specifically , the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web).
    • Let me search the web for that.
  • (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
    • He caught the ball in the web .
  • A latticed or woven structure.
    • The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
  • * George Bancroft
    • The colonists were forbidden to manufacture any woollen, or linen, or cotton fabrics; not a web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, on penalty of exile.
  • The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
  • (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
  • A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
  • The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
  • (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
  • (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
  • (dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
  • A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
  • * Fairfax
    • And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.
  • # The blade of a sword.
  • #* Fairfax
  • The sword, whereof the web was steel, / Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.
  • # The blade of a saw.
  • # The thin, sharp part of a colter.
  • # The bit of a key.

    • Derived terms

    * cobweb * spiderweb * webbed * webbing

    Proper noun

  • : the World Wide Web.
    • I found it on the web .

    Verb

    (webb)
  • to construct or form a web
  • to cover with a web or network
  • to ensnare or entangle
  • to provide with a web

    • Anagrams

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