| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb canopy.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (canopy) | 1. Cover with a canopy.[Wordnet]. 2. To cover with, or as with, a canopy.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: canopying, canopied, canopies, canopier, canopiers, canopyingly and canopiedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "CANOPYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: canopy
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Administration | (1) The overhanging cover formed by leaves, needles, and branches of vegetation. (2) The more or less continuous cover of branches and foliage formed collectively by the crowns of adjacent trends and shrubs. (references) | ||
| Aerospace | 1: The top layer of a forest formed naturally by the leaves and branches of trees and plants. (references) | 2: Anything that seems to cover; a hinged window over a pilot in a jet. (references) | |
| Bible | Judith 10:21; 13:9; 16:19. The canopy of Holofernes is the only one mentioned. (references) | ||
| Building & Civil Engineering | Sheet metal protection attached to head of body and extending forward over truck cab to give protection from falling material. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Dream Interpretation | 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. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Environment | The uppermost layer consisting of the crowns of trees or shrubs in a forest or woodland. (references) | ||
| Food & Agriculture | The more or less continuous cover of branches and foliage formed collectively by the crowns of adjacent trees and other woody growth. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Forestry | 1: The forest cover of branches and foliage formed by tree crowns. (references) | 2: In a forest, the branches from the uppermost layer of trees; in a shrub or grassland, the uppermost layer of shrubs; in a riparian area, the layers of vegetation that project over the stream. (references) | 3: Overhead cover of branches in a forest. (references) | 4: The cover of branches and foliage formed by tree crowns (Source: Empire Forestry Association. 1953. British Commonwealth forest terminology, Part 1. London, England.). cf. storey. (references) |
| Geology | 1: The overhead branches and leaves of stream-side vegetation. (references) | 2: The part of any stand of trees represented by the tree crowns. It usually refers to the uppermost layer of foliage, but it can be use to describe lower layers in a multi-storied forest. (references) | 3: Layer of vegetation elevated above the ground, usually of tree braches and epiphytes. In tropical forests, the canopy may be more than 100 feet above the ground. (references) | 4: Branches and leaves above ground or water. (references) | 5: The branches and foliage of a tree. (references) |
| Literature | Canopy properly means a gnat curtain. Herodotus tells us (ii. 95) that the fishermen of the Nile used to lift their nets on a pole, and form thereby a rude sort of tent under which they slept securely, as gnats will not pass through the meshes of a net. Subsequently the tester of a bed was so called, and lastly the canopy borne over kings. (Greek, ?????, a gnat; ?????????, a gnat-curtain; Latin, conopeum, a gnatcurtain.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Military & Defense | 1: That part of the parachute that opens up and is deployed to catch air, consisting usually of silk or nylon fabric. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: The umbrella-like portion of the parachute, usually made of nylon, which supports the parachutist during his descent. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Mining | 1: The layer formed by leaves and branches of the forest's tallest trees. (references) | 2: The stratum containing the crowns of the tallest vegetation present, (living or dead) usually above 20 feet. (references) | |
| Science | The layer formed naturally by the leaves and branches of trees and plants. (references) | ||
| Transportation | 1: The portion of a parachute consisting of the surface producing aerodynamic forces and the suspension lines extended to one or more confluence points. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Fairing over flight crew or, in light planes, all occupants. Source: European Union. (references) | 3: The transparent covering of cockpits. Source: European Union. (references) | 4: Transparent bubble-like enclosure for the flight crew of an aircraft. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Weather | The branches and leaves of woody plants that are formed some distance above the ground. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: canopy
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Canopy Group | The Canopy Group is an investment firm founded by Ray Noorda, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. It serves as the parent company of various technology companies. One of its most well-known members is the SCO Group. The company's much-criticized litigation has forced Canopy to try to downplay its links to other owned entities, most obviously by removing its list of daughter companies from its website. (references) | ||
| Canopy research | Canopy research is the field of scientific research based upon data collected in the canopy of trees. (references) | ||
| Canopy walkway | Canopy walkways are bridges between and in trees; mostly linked up with platforms inside or around the trees. They were originally intended as access to the upper regions of ancient forests for scientist who conduct canopy research. After they turned out to provide a limited one-dimensional access to the trees, they were abandoned for canopy cranes. Today they serve as eco tourist attractions. (references) | ||
| Triple canopy | Triple Canopy is a private security company operating in Iraq to protect Coalition Provisional Authority headquarters and its staff. (references) | ||
| Vapor canopy | The vapor canopy is an idea adopted by many Creationists which states that before the Great Flood the earth was surrounded by a "canopy" of water in either liquid, solid, or gas form, and that the water from the canopy contributed greatly to the flood waters. The earliest water canopy theory was proposed by Isaac Vail in 1874, but the idea came to prominence in 1961 with the publication of the book The Genesis Flood by Henry Morris and John Whitcomb. Creationists are not agreed on the merits of the theory; for instance, Walt Brown's [http://www.creationscience.com/ Center for Scientific Creation] opposes it. One major proponent is Kent Hovind. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: canopy
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Canopy angle | Geology | Generally, a measure of the openness of a stream to sunlight. Specifically, the angle formed by an imaginary line from the highest structure (for example, tree, shrub, or bluff) on one bank to eye level at midchannel to the highest structure on the other bank. (references) | |
| Canopy class | Forestry | See crown closure class. (references) | |
| Canopy closure | Forestry | 1: The amount of ground surface shaded by tree canopies (See Canopy). Used to describe how open or dense a stand of trees is, often expressed in 10 percent increments. (references) | |
| 2: The degree to which the canopy (forest layers above one’s head) blocks sunlight or obscure the sky. (references) | |||
| 3: The progressive reduction of space between crowns as they spread laterally, increasing canopy cover. (references) | |||
| Canopy cover | Food & Agriculture | The more or less continuous cover of branches and foliage formed collectively by the crowns of adjacent trees and other woody growth. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Canopy cover | Forestry | The percentage of a fixed area covered by crowns of plants delimited by a vertical projection of the outermost perimeter of the spread of the foliage. (references) | |
| Canopy cover | Geology | Vegetation projecting over a stream, including crown cover (generally more than 1 m above the water surface) and overhang cover (less than 1 m above the water). (references) | |
| Canopy cover | Mining | The percent of a fixed area covered by the crown of an individual plant species or delimited by the vertical projection of its outermost perimeter; small openings in the crown are included. Used to express the relative importance of individual species within a vegetation community or to express the canopy cover of woody species. Canopy cover may be used as a measure of land cover change or trend and is often used for wildlife habitat evaluations. (references) | |
| Canopy density | Forestry | See crown closure. (references) | |
| Canopy density | Geology | The percentage of the stream covered by the canopy of plants, sometimes expressed by species. (references) | |
| Canopy included volume | Transportation | The volume enclosed by a parachute canopy surface; normally obtained by assuming that the canopy profile approximates a combination of bodies of revolution whose volume can be calculated. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Canopy interception | Geography | The process by which precipitation is caught and held by foliage, twigs and branches of trees, shrubs and other vegetation and lost by evaporation, without reaching the surface of underground. also the quantity thus evaporated. also sometimes known as "canopy interception" Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Canopy Resistance | Administration | The resistance to transport of water and vapor away from the soil and canopy. (references) | |
| CANOPY STRINGER | Occupations | Threads shroud lines through perpendicular seams of parachute canopy for connecting canopy to parachute harness: Spreads canopy on table and places vent over holders. Secures end of line in barbs of insertion needle and working from interior dome of canopy outward, inserts shroud lines through holes in opposite panel seams so that center of line lays in semicircle around top hem. Threads and pulls line down through panel seam, drawing it out just above reinforcements attached to bottom hem of canopy. Pins shroud lines at hem and vent, according to markings on line, to facilitate stitching of lines to canopy. Braids lines to prevent tangling, cooperating with co-worker, so that each advances one panel seam in same circular direction as stringing progresses. May thread shroud lines through horizontal seams of aerial recovery parachutes. May insert line into itself, using insertion needle, to form endless vent line. (references) | |
| Closed Canopy | Administration | Forest trees dense enough that tree crowns fill or nearly fill the canopy layer. (references) | |
| Closed canopy | Forestry | The description given to a stand when the crowns of the main level of trees forming the canopy are touching and intermingled so that light cannot reach the forest floor directly. (references) | |
| First stage canopy | Transportation | Usually, a small canopy which is deployed to provide initial stabilization of the payload and/or to decelerate the payload to a velocity or dynamic pressure where the intermediate or final stage canopy can be deployed. Often called a'drogue parachute'. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Forest canopy | Environment | The cover of branches and foliage formed collectively by the crowns of adjacent trees and other woody growth. (references) | |
| Multi-layered canopy | Environment | Forest stands with two or more distinct tree layers in the canopy; also called multi-storied stands. (references) | |
| Open Canopy | Administration | (Botany) Forest trees which are so scattered that there are frequent openings between tree crowns in the canopy. (references) | |
| Tree canopy | Food & Agriculture | The upper part of a tree or other woody plant, carrying the main branch system and foliage, and surmounting at the crown base a more or less clean stem. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Vegetation Canopy | Space | The layers of vegetation above the level of the ground, formed by the leaves of the plants. (references) | |
| Vegetation Canopy Lidar | Science | The first satellite mission of NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder project that will create the first maps of the three-dimensional structure of vegetation in the world's forests. The VCL lidar holds five lasers that each send 242 pulses per second at the Earth's surface. Each beam covers an area 75 feet across. By spacing the five beams a little over a mile apart, each VCL orbit will sample an area 5 miles across. See VCL fact sheet. (VCL). (references) | |
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