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Hitler vs Canvas - What's the difference?

hitler | canvas |

As nouns the difference between hitler and canvas

is that hitler is an unnecessarily dictatorial person 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 proper noun Hitler

is a surname of Austrian origin.

As a verb canvas is

to cover an area or object with canvas.

hitler

English

(Adolf Hitler)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A surname of Austrian origin.
  • , dictator of Germany between 1933 and 1945.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1964, author=David Hugh Freeman, title=A Philosophical Study of Religion
    • , passage=The question makes no sense, unless the questioner is satisfied with such answers as: Death is evil, pain is evil, Hitler is evil. citation
  • * {{quote-book, year=1977, title=Providence and Evil, author=Peter Thomas Geach
    • , passage=Similarly, the description we give of God’s knowledge concerning Hitler' has to be different after '''Hitler'''’s death; it is manifest that there has been a change on ' Hitler ’s side, and that this, in view of the logic of omniscience, makes a difference to what we can truly say about God’s knowledge; ... citation
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  • * {{quote-book, year=2007, title=The God Delusion, author=Richard Dawkins
    • , passage=People do evil things (Hitler , Stalin, Saddam Hussein). citation

    Derived terms

    * Hitlerian * Hitlerish * Hitlerism * Hitlerite

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (derogatory) An unnecessarily dictatorial person.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1986, author=William Borman, title=Gandhi and Non-Violence
    • , passage=How does he support his position against the prima facie case in favor of the strongly counterintuitive claim that non-violence would necessarily defeat a Hitler ?}}

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    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.