canvass
IPA: kˈænvʌs
noun
- (countable) A seeking or solicitation of donations, information, opinions, support, etc.
- (countable, specifically, politics) A seeking or solicitation, or determination, of support or favourable votes in a forthcoming election or poll.
- (countable, US, politics) A scrutiny of the votes cast in an election to reject irregular votes; also, a tally, audit, and certification of votes.
- (obsolete)
- (countable) A thorough discussion or investigation. (Possibly; the meaning is unclear.)
- (uncountable) Rejection (at an election, of a suit, etc.).
- Obsolete spelling of canvas [A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.]
verb
- (transitive, figuratively)
- To thoroughly examine or investigate (something) physically or by discussion; to debate, to gather opinion, to scrutinize.
- (by extension, politics, obsolete except US, Philippines) To scrutinize (the ballot in an election or the votes cast) and reject irregular votes; also, to challenge or dispute (an election result).
- To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc. from (people or a place)
- (specifically, politics) To seek the support of (voters or a constituency) in a forthcoming election or poll through personal solicitation or public addresses.
- (transitive, obsolete)
- To toss (someone) in a (canvas) sheet for fun or as a punishment; to blanket.
- (by extension) To batter, beat, or thrash (someone or something).
- (by extension) To assail or attack (someone or something).
- (by extension) To severely criticize (a person, a written work, etc.).
- (intransitive)
- To debate, to discuss.
- To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc.; to conduct a survey.
- (specifically, politics) To seek the support of voters or a constituency in a forthcoming election or poll; to campaign.
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Examples of "canvass" in Sentences
- And no, there was no canvassing done.
- I see no canvassing, only canvassing paranoia.
- There's canvassing and then there's canvassing.
- Canvassing requires the solicitation of an opinion.
- In the centre of the staff is a diagram of the canvass.
- He worked on canvasses that glowered with a morbid light.
- Some of the young men are canvassing in the hereby towns.
- If that was canvassing, then it was not disruptive canvassing.
- Sounds like five '2's and three' 3's, in canvass rating terms.
- The blue canvass is one that I won in a photography competition.
- The clerks decided to allow SBHB's canvassing, but canvassing it was.
- IF someone is canvassing, then address the person doing the canvassing.
- “Allow me to present Skeletor,” with a grand flourish, he pulled a canvass from the large cloaked object dominating the small lab.
- How she compresses the grandeur and majesty of her subjects onto the canvass is only outdone by the breathtaking awe the viewer is participant to when standing before an original Fanucci.
- "Then they proceeded to what they called the canvass of the votes in the Legislature, not canvassing legal returns of voters in any legal form, but a canvass on the ground of newspaper reports, wild guesses, and forged affidavits.
- She claimed that the canvass was a "open and transparent" process, yet she found the error at noon on Wednesday and sat on the information for 29 hours, not even telling top election officials at the Government Accountability Board.
- The canvass is a legal process in which local officials literally reconstruct the results of the election one voting machine and one precinct at a time, to ensure that all votes validly cast in the election are counted fairly and accurately.
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