CANOPY (canopied)

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Irregular inflected form: canopied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does canopy mean? 

• CANOPY (noun)
  The noun CANOPY has 3 senses:

1. the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit

2. the umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air

3. a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather

  Familiarity information: CANOPY used as a noun is uncommon.

• CANOPY (verb)
  The verb CANOPY has 1 sense:

1. cover with a canopy

  Familiarity information: CANOPY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANOPY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("canopy" is a kind of...):

covering (an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it))

Holonyms ("canopy" is a part of...):

cockpit (compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft)

Derivation:

canopy (cover with a canopy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("canopy" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Holonyms ("canopy" is a part of...):

chute; parachute (rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("canopy" is a kind of...):

shelter (protective covering that provides protection from the weather)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "canopy"):

awning; sunblind; sunshade (a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun)

baldachin (ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar))

marquee; marquise (permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc.)

porte-cochere (canopy extending out from a building entrance to shelter those getting in and out of vehicles)

tester (a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed))

umbrella (a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy)

Derivation:

canopy (cover with a canopy)

• CANOPY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they canopy    ... he / she / it canopies   
Past simple: canopied   
Past participle: canopied   
-ing form: canopying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cover with a canopy

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "canopy" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

canopy (a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather)

canopy (the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit)

 Context examples 

A network of sensors with microphones and cameras will be created under the Amazon rainforest canopy to collect data on how animals there behave, on an ongoing basis.

(Amazon jungle animals to be monitored by sensors, Agência Brasil)

However, the previous studies upon which the 70% figure was based only measured overall canopy coverage.

(Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all, Wikinews)

"The variability of the arrangement of the leaf area in the canopy can be important in terms of forest productivity as well as resilience to different types of disturbances and stressors."

(Structural complexity in forests improves carbon capture, National Science Foundation)

The scientists measured the daily energy expenditure of both two- and three-toed sloths, animals that co-exist in the tropical forest canopies of Central and South America.

(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)

A high dais at the further end was roofed in by a broad canopy of scarlet velvet spangled with silver fleurs-de-lis, and supported at either corner by silver rods.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a very grey day; a most opaque sky, "onding on snaw," canopied all; thence flakes felt it intervals, which settled on the hard path and on the hoary lea without melting.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I began also to observe, with greater accuracy, the forms that surrounded me and to perceive the boundaries of the radiant roof of light which canopied me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The concept of Earth's "critical zone" — the swath from the top of the tree canopy down to bedrock — gives scientists the framework to look at the environment from a larger perspective.

(Study reveals surprising role of dust in mountain ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

For my own part, I looked on Mr. Jack Maldon as a modern Sindbad, and pictured him the bosom friend of all the Rajahs in the East, sitting under canopies, smoking curly golden pipes—a mile long, if they could be straightened out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The whole group of us were covered for an instant by a canopy of leathery wings, and I had a momentary vision of a long, snake-like neck, a fierce, red, greedy eye, and a great snapping beak, filled, to my amazement, with little, gleaming teeth.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)