Canopy
['kænəpɪ] or ['kænəpi]
Definition
(noun.) a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather.
(noun.) the umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air.
(noun.) the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit.
(verb.) cover with a canopy.
Typed by Gwendolyn--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor.
(n.) An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc.
(n.) Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.
(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a canopy.
Checked by Ives
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Awning, tilt.
Checker: Otis
Definition
n. a covering over a throne or bed: a covering of state stretched over the head: any covering as the sky: a roof-like projection over a niche tomb statue &c.: the wooden covering over prebends' stalls in cathedrals pulpits altars &c.—v.t. to cover with a canopy:—pr.p. can′opying; pa.p. can′opied.
Editor: Segre
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a canopy or of being beneath one, denotes that false friends are influencing you to undesirable ways of securing gain. You will do well to protect those in your care.
Inputed by Eunice
Examples
- The main entrance was some hundred feet in width and projected from the building proper to form a huge canopy above the entrance hall. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The earth was spread out as an highway for him; the heavens built up as a canopy for him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The oak roots, turfed and mossed, gave a seat; the oak boughs, thick-leaved, wove a canopy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was full of the moon, which looked solemnly and mildly down on Caroline from beneath that sombre canopy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His fame spread, like the sound of a great bell hung in the canopy of the skies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Somehow, a canopy of wet blanket seems to descend upon the company, and Lady Tippins was never known to turn so very greedy or so very cross. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Editor: Terence