carpet

[ kahr-pit ]

/ ˈkɑr pɪt /

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noun

a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.

a covering of this material.

any relatively soft surface or covering like a carpet: They walked on the carpet of grass.

any of a number of airborne electronic devices for jamming radar.

a system of such devices.

verb (used with object)

to cover or furnish with or as with a carpet.

Chiefly British. to reprimand.

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Idioms for carpet

on the carpet,

before an authority or superior for an accounting of one's actions or a reprimand: He was called on the carpet again for his carelessness.
Chiefly British. under consideration or discussion.

Origin of carpet

1300–50; Middle English carpete cloth covering for a table, floor, bed, etc. <Middle French carpite or Medieval Latin carpīta<Italian carpita woolen bedspread <Vulgar Latin *carpīta, past participle of carpīre, for Latin carpere to pluck, card (wool)

OTHER WORDS FROM carpet

car·pet·less, adjectivecar·pet·like, adjectivere·car·pet, verb (used with object)un·car·pet·ed, adjective

well-car·pet·ed, adjective

Words nearby carpet

Carpentersville, carpenterworm, carpenterworm moth, Carpentier, carpentry, carpet, carpetbag, carpetbagger, carpetbaggers, carpet beetle, carpet-bomb

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Example sentences from the Web for carpet

That sweaty stench is definitely a downside of doing your push-ups on that bouncy carpet of yours, but it’s also easily avoidable and manageable.
Working out at home? Here’s how to keep your house from smelling like a gym.|Harry Guinness|September 3, 2020|Popular Science
When you workout at home, that means sweat settles into your upholstery, the carpet, and that one spot you never dust behind the TV.
Working out at home? Here’s how to keep your house from smelling like a gym.|Harry Guinness|September 3, 2020|Popular Science
Some signs would be your dog or cat exhibiting destructive behaviors after you leave home, like pacing, vocalizing, trembling, or even relieving itself on the carpet.
How to help your pet with separation anxiety|Sara Kiley Watson|August 26, 2020|Popular Science
The old Victorian house needed a lot of work – paint, updated carpet, sanded wood floors, new plumbing, and the garden was in a shambles – but it would all be worth it.
Learning to parent your parent|Terri Schlichenmeyer|August 21, 2020|Washington Blade

Before the pandemic, many of your posts and slideshows covered red carpet events from indie film festivals to the Oscars.
The Fug Girls on the book publishing industry and maintaining a small business online|Rachel King|July 7, 2020|Fortune
The carpet is stained from the door to the window with red wine.
I Watched a Casino Kill Itself: The Awful Last Nights of Atlantic City’s Taj Mahal|Olivia Nuzzi|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His father, Hassan, is a carpet merchant with close relations to senior members of the conservative Islamic Coalition Party.
Iran’s Blogfather Walks Free After Six Years in Jail|IranWire|November 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And it is a situation impossible to brush under the carpet because the Confederacy transformed the Union.
One U.S. Constitution Just Wasn’t Enough|Tom Arnold-Forster|July 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But Friday morning, the monthly jobs report dumped a steaming pile of caution on the carpet.
The December Jobs Report Is Drunk|Daniel Gross|January 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The fact that Israel gets called on the carpet so often is wrapped in a multitude of sometimes contradictory factors.
Yes, Virginia, There is Anti-Israel Bias at the U.N.|Emily L. Hauser|August 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST
There, Judy, keep back for a moment; it will get upon the carpet, and spoil it if we are not as quick as possible.
A Young Mutineer|Mrs. L. T. Meade
The carpet of the room had been taken up for the summer, and the floor was of dark red tiles, waxed and immaculate.
Cecilia|F. Marion Crawford
The carpet was of the same date as the curtains, and was thread-bare in many places; and in others was covered with drugget.
Wives and Daughters|Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The rain had stopped now and the lawn under his feet was soggy and water-beaten like a carpet that has been left out in a storm.
The Rest Hollow Mystery|Rebecca N. Porter
Yet as amici curiae, we would have thought that that Tottenham Road carpet might have been kept out of Court.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, August 9, 1890.|Various

British Dictionary definitions for carpet

carpet

/ (ˈkɑːpɪt) /

noun

a heavy fabric for covering floors
(as modifier)a carpet sale

a covering like a carpeta carpet of leaves

on the carpet informal

before authority to be reproved for misconduct or error
under consideration

verb -pets, -peting or -peted (tr)

to cover with or as if with a carpet

informal to reprimand

Word Origin for carpet

C14: from Old French carpite, from Old Italian carpita, from Late Latin carpeta, literally: (wool) that has been carded, from Latin carpere to pluck, card

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Idioms and Phrases with carpet

carpet

see call on the carpet; red carpet. Also see under rug.

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