Visor vs Canopy - What's the difference?
visor | canopy |
A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 7:
A mask used to disfigure or disguise.
* 1608 , William Shakspeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre , Act IV, Scene IV, line 44.
The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.
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 visor and canopy
is that visor is a part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face the openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it 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.visor
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Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(wikipedia visor) (en noun)- A close helmet entirely covers the head, face, and neck, having on the front perforations for the admission of air, and slits through which the wearer may see objects around him, this part which is stiled the visor lifts up by means of a pivot over each ear.
- No visor does become black villainy So well as soft and tender flattery.
canopy
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Noun
(canopies)- golden canopies and beds of state
Verb
(en-verb)- A bank with ivy canopied .