Canopy vs Ledge - What's the difference?
canopy | ledge |
A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
* Dryden
Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
To cover with or as if with a canopy.
* Milton
To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
(geology) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
A layer or stratum.
A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
(architecture) A (door or window) lintel .
(architecture) A cornice.
A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
(slang) A lege; a legend.
*
As nouns the difference between canopy and ledge
is that canopy is a high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed while ledge is a shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.As a verb canopy
is to cover with or as if with a canopy.canopy
English
Noun
(canopies)- golden canopies and beds of state
Verb
(en-verb)- A bank with ivy canopied .
See also
* canopied * canopy bed English eponymsledge
English
Noun
(en noun)[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon/8605605/Andy-Murray-v-Feliciano-Lopez-at-Wimbledon-2011-as-it-happened.html], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19083758