The setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account.

synoniem: canvas.

Roget 765: request, requisition; claim etc. (demand) 741; petition, suit, prayer; begging letter, round robin.    motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe; imprecation; rogation; proposal, proposition.    orison etc. (worship) 990; incantation etc. (spell) 993.    mendicancy; asking, begging etc. v.; postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration^†, imploration^†, obsecration^†, obtestation^†, invocation, interpellation.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: osnowa, kanwa

An inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people.

synoniemen: opinion poll, poll, public opinion poll.

Nederlands: enquete, demoscopie, opinieonderzoek, opiniepeiling, poll
Pools: ankietyzacja, ankietowanie, ankietyzowanie

A large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel.

synoniemen: canvas, sail, sheet.

Nederlands: blad, schilderslinnen, linnen, doek, zeiltocht, zeilen, zeil, zeildoek
Pools: żagiel

A tent made of canvas fabric.

synoniemen: canvas, canvas tent.

An oil painting on canvas fabric.

synoniem: canvas.

The mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete.

synoniem: canvas.

A heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents).

synoniem: canvas.

Nederlands: schildersdoek, canvas, zeildoek
Pools: płótno

Get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions.

synoniem: poll.

Roget 476: reason, argue, discuss, debate, dispute, wrangle^†, argufy^†, bandy words, bandy arguments; chop logic; hold an argument, carry on an argument; controvert etc. (deny) 536; canvass; comment upon, moralize upon; spiritualize; consider etc. (examine) 461.    open a discussion, open a case; try conclusions; join issue, be at issue; moot; come to the point; stir a question, agitate a question, ventilate a question, torture a question; take up a side, take up a case.    contend, take one's stand upon, insist, lay stress on; infer etc. 480.    follow from etc. (demonstration) 478.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 765: request, ask; beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask; beg leave, beg a boon; apply to, call to, put to; call upon, call for; make a request, address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a petition, put up a petition; make application, make a requisition; ask trouble, ask one for; claim etc. (demand) 741; offer up prayers etc. (worship) 990; whistle for.    beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest^†; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate^†, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones.    beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging; mendicate^†, mump^†, cadge, beg one's bread.    dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door.    bespeak, canvass, tout, make interest, court; seek, bid for etc. (offer) 763; publish the banns.    ... meer laten zien

Solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign.

Nederlands: soliciteren

Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning.

synoniemen: analyse, analyze, examine, study.

Roget 461: make inquiry etc. n.; inquire, ask, seek, search.    look for, look about for, look out for; scan, reconnoiter, explore, sound, rummage, ransack, pry, peer, look round; look over, go over, look through, go through; spy, overhaul.    [object is a topic] ask about, inquire about.    scratch the head, slap the forehead.    look into every hole and corner, peer into every hole and corner, pry into every hole and corner; nose; trace up; search out, hunt down, hunt out, fish out, ferret out; unearth; leave no stone unturned.    seek a clue, seek a clew; hunt, track, trail, mouse, dodge, trace; follow the trail, follow the scent; pursue etc. 662; beat up one's quarters; fish for; feel for etc. (experiment) 463.    investigate; take up an inquiry, institute an inquiry, pursue an inquiry, follow up an inquiry, conduct an inquiry, carry on an inquiry, carry out an inquiry, prosecute an inquiry etc. n.; look at, look into; preexamine; discuss, canvass, agitate.    [inquire into a topic] examine, study, consider, calculate; dip into, dive into, delve into, go deep into; make sure of, probe, sound, fathom; probe to the bottom, probe to the quick; scrutinize, analyze, anatomize, dissect, parse, resolve, sift, winnow; view in all its phases, try in all its phases; thresh out.    bring in question, bring into question, subject to examination; put to the proof etc. (experiment) 463; audit, tax, pass in review; take into consideration etc. (think over) 451; take counsel etc. 695.    question, demand; put the question, pop the question, propose the question, propound the question, moot the question, start the question, raise the question, stir the question, suggest the question, put forth the question, ventilate the question, grapple with the question, go into a question.    [human object], question, put to the question, interrogate, pump; subject to interrogation, subject to examination; cross-question, cross-examine; press for an answer; give the third degree; put to the inquisition; dodge^†.    catechize.    require an answer; pick the brains of, suck the brains of; feel the pulse.    get the lay of the land; see how the wind is blowing; put one's ear to the ground.    be in question etc. adj.; undergo examination.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: analyseren, bestuderen, onderzoeken, uitspitten