English-Thai Dictionary

canopy

N ท้องฟ้า  tong-far

 

canopy

N สิ่ง ที่ ใช้ คลุม เพื่อ ปกป้อง สิ่ง อื่น  covering cover sing-ti-chai-khlum-phuea-pok-pong-sing-uen

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CANOPY

n. 1. A covering over a throne, or over a bed; more generally, a covering over the head. So the sky is called a canopy, and a canopy is borne over the head in processions.
2. In architecture and sculpture, a magnificent decoration serving to cover and crown an altar, throne, tribunal, pulpit, chair or the like.

 

CANOPY

v.t.To cover with a canopy.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CANOPY

Can "o *py, n.; pl. Canopies. Etym: [Oe. canopie, F. canopésofa, Of canopée, canopeu, canopieu, canopy, vail, pavilion (cf. It. canepècanopy, sofa ), LL. canopeum a bed with mosquito curtains, fr. Gr. Cone, and Optic. ]

 

1. 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. "Golden canoniec and beds of state. " Dryden.

 

2. (Arch. ) (a ) An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc. (b ) Also, a roofike covering, supported on pilars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.

 

CANOPY

Can "o *py, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Canopes; p. pr. & vb. n. Canopying.]

 

Defn: To cover with, or as with, a canopy. "A bank with ivy canopied. " Milton.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

canopy

can o py |ˈkanəpē ˈkænəpi | ▶noun ( pl. canopies ) an ornamental cloth covering hung or held up over something, esp. a throne or bed: a romantic four-poster bed complete with drapes and a canopy | figurative : a full moon and a canopy of stars. • Architecture a rooflike projection or shelter: they mounted the station steps under the concrete canopy. • the transparent plastic or glass cover of an aircraft's cockpit. • the expanding, umbrellalike part of a parachute, made of silk or nylon. • [ in sing. ] the uppermost trees or branches of the trees in a forest, forming a more or less continuous layer of foliage: monkeys spend hours every day sitting high in the canopy. ▶verb ( canopies, canopying, canopied ) [ with obj. ] (usu. as adj. canopied ) cover or provide with a canopy: a canopied bed | the river was canopied by overhanging trees. ORIGIN late Middle English: from medieval Latin canopeum ‘ceremonial canopy, ’ alteration of Latin conopeum ‘mosquito net over a bed, ’ from Greek kōnōpeion ‘couch with mosquito curtains, ’ from kōnōps ‘mosquito. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

canopy

can ¦opy |ˈkanəpi | ▶noun ( pl. canopies ) 1 an ornamental cloth covering hung or held up over something, especially a throne or bed: a romantic four-poster bed complete with drapes and a canopy | figurative : a full moon and a canopy of stars. • Architecture a roof-like projection or shelter. • the transparent plastic or glass cover of an aircraft's cockpit. • the expanding, umbrella-like part of a parachute, made of silk or nylon. 2 [ in sing. ] the uppermost branches of the trees in a forest, forming a more or less continuous layer of foliage: woolly monkeys spend hours every day sitting high in the canopy. ▶verb ( canopies, canopying, canopied ) [ with obj. ] (usu. as adj. canopied ) cover or provide with a canopy. ORIGIN late Middle English: from medieval Latin canopeum ‘ceremonial canopy ’, alteration of Latin conopeum ‘mosquito net over a bed ’, from Greek kōnōpeion ‘couch with mosquito curtains ’, from kōnōps ‘mosquito ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

canopy

canopy noun the canopy gave us some relief from the sun: awning, shade, sunshade; marquee; chuppah.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

canopy

canopy noun awning, shade, sunshade, cover, covering; baldachin, tester, half-tester; Judaism chuppah; technical velarium.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

canopy

can o py /kǽnəpi /名詞 複 -pies C 1 (ベッドの上や建物の入り口の )装飾覆い天井, 天 蓋 （がい ）.2 (葉や枝などが頭上に )覆いかぶさっていること [状態 ].3 頭上に覆いかぶさるもの .4 (飛行機の操縦席を覆う )透明な円蓋, キャノピー .5 (パラシュートの )かさ .動詞 -pies ; -pied ; ～ing 他動詞 …を (頭上から )覆う .