Difference between Canvass and Canvas

What is the difference between Canvass and Canvas?

Canvass as a noun is a solicitation of voters or opinions while Canvas as a noun is a type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.

Canvass

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a solicitation of voters or opinions a public opinion survey

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to solicit voters or opinions to conduct a survey

Canvas

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cover an area or object with canvas.To cover an area or object with canvas.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.A basis for creative work.sails in generalA tent.A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.

Example sentence: Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

We hope you now know whether to use Canvass or Canvas in your sentence.

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