Canopy vs. Ciborium

Canopynoun

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

Canopynoun

Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.

Canopynoun

The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.

Canopynoun

In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.

Canopynoun

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

Canopyverb

(transitive) To cover with or as if with a canopy.

Canopyverb

(intransitive) To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.

Canopynoun

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.

Canopynoun

An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc.

Canopyverb

To cover with, or as with, a canopy.

Canopynoun

the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit

Canopynoun

the umbrella-like part of a parachute that fills with air

Canopynoun

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

Canopyverb

cover with a canopy

Ciboriumnoun

(architecture) A fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns.

Ciboriumnoun

(Christianity) A covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist.

Ciboriumnoun

A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.

Ciboriumnoun

The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.