Mural vs Canvas - What's the difference?
mural | canvas |
Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.
* Milton
* Evelyn
Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.
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 mural and canvas
is that mural is a large painting, usually drawn on a wall while canvas is a type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.As an adjective mural
is of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.As a verb canvas is
to cover an area or object with canvas.mural
English
Adjective
(-)- a mural quadrant
- Disburden'd Heav'n rejoiced, and soon repair'd / Her mural breach
- In the nectarine and the like delicate mural fruit, the later your pruning, the better.
- a mural precipice
Derived terms
* mural circle * mural crown ----canvas
English
(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)