Canvass is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CANVASS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to examine thoroughly, also CANVAS
• solicit votes from (electors or members)
• try to obtain (support)
• question (someone) in order to ascertain their opinion
• propose (an idea or plan) for discussion
• discuss thoroughly
• try to get votes or support (from)
• To search thoroughly; to engage in solicitation by traversing a district; as, to canvass for subscriptions or for votes; to canvass for a book, a publisher, or in behalf of a charity; -- commonly followed by for.
• get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
• solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign
• consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
NOUN:
• an act of canvassing
• To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote.
• To examine by discussion; to debate.
• To go trough, with personal solicitation or public addresses; as, to canvass a district for votes; to canvass a city for subscriptions.
• Close inspection; careful review for verification; as, a canvass of votes.
• Examination in the way of discussion or debate.
• Search; exploration; solicitation; systematic effort to obtain votes, subscribers, etc.
• the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account
• an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
• a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
• a tent made of canvas fabric
• an oil painting on canvas fabric
• the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete
• a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
• canvassing

Words related to CANVASS

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Words that contain CANVASS

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How to use CANVASS in a sentence

• The judges then proceeded to publicly canvass the votes, and the persons having the greatest number of votes for the respective offices voted for were declared elected.
• A canvass of the drawer, helped out by the bar and the other games, made up the sum.
• Lincoln in the canvass then pending, to be able to establish in the War Department a Bureau of Militia, which would prove a most valuable auxiliary to his work.
• Two days I have been begging for the new Chapel, and still I am requested to canvass the opposite side of Walmgate.
• She was about two leagues astern of us, and resembled a pyramidal cloud, moving along the water, so completely were her spars covered with canvass.
• Some little attention was paid to my comfort, it is true, and a canvass screen was fitted for me, behind which I ate and slept, with some sort of retirement.
• Splendid shops, fitted up with great taste, occupied the whole of the lower stories, and goods of all kinds hung beneath the canvass awnings in front of them.
• Each day he had risen early and gone forth and worked till late at night, making a canvass in good earnest.
• It is not the province of this work to describe the incidents of the national canvass, but only to record its results.
• During the canvass, in a private conversation he encouraged Abraham to study law.
• He not only made an extensive canvass in Illinois, but also made a number of speeches in the adjoining State of Indiana.
• Every morning a canvass bag, containing the books returned and applications for others wanted, is sent from each branch to the library, and is returned in the afternoon full.
• But he became alarmed by the opposition of the Know- Nothings and withdrew from the canvass much to the dissatisfaction of his political friends.
• It is very certain that any party founded on the proposition would utterly fail in a national canvass.
• I took part in the canvass of 1840 and made speeches in Groton and in several of the towns in the vicinity.
• The Democratic majority in the State when the canvass began was estimated at eight thousand.
• A careful canvass of some of the other independent concerns had shown the men eighty, ninety, even one hundred per cent, loyal.
• On the outlying routes, where the mails are exposed to the weather, waterproof canvass bags should be used.
• We could afford to canvass for suffrage for nothing.
• Had it not been for the great anti-slavery feeling there was at this canvass, Mr.
• We do not need to deliberate or enquire, or to canvass reasons and considerations for and against, in order to declare a murder, a theft, or a lie to be wrong.
• In 1838 Lincoln was again elected a member of the lower house of the legislature, and many are the amusing stories told of the canvass.
• I had no expectation when I suggested that you boys canvass the radio field for information to clear up what you chose to call a mystery.
• His political position in the canvass was utterly false, as he himself afterwards confessed.
• He gave up his business position to accompany his wife and they made a thorough canvass of that State during April and May.
• In the midst of the canvass Douglas found his way to Chicago.
• These three became, in the canvass, the champions of Democracy, and fiercely waged the war in antagonism with their former allies.
• He was successful in his canvass for the Senate, and in that body he soon became prominent as an orator of great powers, and as a most active business man.

Similar words containing CANVAS without suffix s

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