Parasol vs Canopy - What's the difference?
parasol | canopy |
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.
As nouns the difference between parasol and canopy
is that parasol is a small light umbrella used as protection from the sun while canopy is a high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.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 .