canopy: difference between revisions

 

===Pronunciation===

 

===Noun===

{{en-noun}}

[[File:Nyungwe Inside Canopy Walk.jpg|thumb|'''Canopy''' walkway in [[Rwanda]] (3).]]

# A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.

|passage=golden '''canopies''' and beds of state}}

#* {{quote-journal|en|year=2019|month=October|title=Consultation on University Station designs|journal=Modern Railways|page=17|text=Platforms would be widened and covered by '''canopies''' with heated waiting areas for passengers.}}

# In an [[airplane]], the transparent [[cockpit]] [[cover]].

# In a [[parachute]], the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.

 

====Derived terms====

 

====Descendants====

{{trans-top|high cover}}

* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|балдахин|m}}

* Czech: {{t|cs|baldachýn}}

* Dutch: {{t+|nl|baldakijn|m}}

* Romanian: {{t+|ro|baldachin|n}}

* Russian: {{t+|ru|балдахин|m}}, {{t+|ru|наве́с|m}}, {{t+|ru|полог|m}}

* Spanish: {{t+|es|dosel|m}}, {{t+|es|palio|m}}, {{t+|es|toldo|m}}

* Swedish: {{t+|sv|baldakin|c}}, {{t+|sv|takhimmel|c}}, {{t|sv|tronhimmel|c}}, {{t|sv|sänghimmel|c}}

* Tagalog: {{t|tl|kulandong}}, {{t|tl|kalandong}}

* Turkish: {{t+|tr|gölgelik}}

* Zazaki: {{t|zza|sersiyın}}, {{t+|zza|stare}}

{{trans-bottom}}

* German: {{t|de|Kronendach|n}}, {{t+|de|Blätterdach|n}};

* Irish: {{t|ga|ceannbhrat|m}}

* Malayalam: {{t+|ml|മേലാപ്പ്}}, {{t+|ml|വിതാനം}}

* Norwegian: {{t|no|kronetak|n}}

* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kuomu}}

* German: {{t|de|Kabinenhaube|f}}

* Russian: {{t+|ru|фона́рь|m}}

* Spanish: {{t+|es|parabrisas|m}}, {{t+|es|capota|f}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[cover]] with or as if with a canopy.

#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Twelfth Night|I|1|text=Away before me to sweet beds of flowers:<br>Love-thoughts lie rich when '''canopied''' with bowers.}}

#* '''1850''', ''The Madras Journal of Literature and Science'', Vol. XVI, No. 38, Vepery: J.P. Bantleman, p. 366,^{[https://books.google.com/books?id=r_gEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA366#v=onepage&f=false]}

#*: The walls of the vestibule and passage passing round the sanctuary, are covered with compartments holding high reliefs of Buddha seated on a lotus, the stem of which is grasped by two figures wearing wigs and tiaras, '''canopied''' by snakes; {{...}}