Fabric vs Canvas - What's the difference?
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(archaic) structure, building
* Milton
(archaic) The act of constructing; construction; fabrication.
* Milman
(archaic) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make.
The framework underlying a structure
A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
(petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock
(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance
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.
As nouns the difference between fabric and canvas
is that fabric is structure, building while canvas is a type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.As a verb canvas is
to cover an area or object with canvas.fabric
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Alternative forms
* fabrick (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia fabric)- Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.
- Tithe was received by the bishop for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
- cloth of a beautiful fabric
- the fabric of our lives
- the fabric of the universe
- cotton fabric
- The internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers
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*canvas
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(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)