carpet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Armenian կապերտ (kapert)
Middle Armenian կարպետ (karpet)bor.
Medieval Latin carpitader.
Old French carpitebor.
Middle English carpette
English carpet
From late Middle English carpette, from Old French carpite, from Medieval Latin carpita or Italian carpita, introduced in the 13th century by the Florentines from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, from Middle Armenian կարպետ (karpet, “carpet, rug”), earlier կապերտ (kapert).
Inflected forms:
form: carpets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carpets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: carpeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: carpeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: carpeted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fabric used as a complete floor covering.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
The railways are anxious to refurbish their stations and rolling stock when they can get labour and materials, although it is unlikely that they contemplate deep carpets in wayside waiting rooms. Lack of carpets at present is not confined to railways, and roaring fires in the present fuel scarcity would probably be considered anti-social in wayside waiting rooms.
The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
gloss: Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: the grassy carpet of this plain
Way deep in left field, where the carpet of green sloped upward to a terrace and greeted the thick line of trees, he reached out his glove.
gloss: Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A wrought cover for tables.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets.
gloss: A woman's pubic hair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
gloss: To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.
pos: verb
examples: After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.
The builders were carpeting in the living room when Zadie inspected her new house.
gloss: To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.
Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils.
2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
The town of Tompasobaru, a six-hour drive from Tangkoko, is known for the fragrant cloves that carpet the front yards of homes, drying on tarps in the sun. But in the town’s open market, the air hung heavy with the metallic smell of the butcher’s wares.
gloss: To reprimand.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: Even Colonel Yakov, so recently carpeted by St Petersburg, was reported to be back in the Pamirs.
At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...'
She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking.
As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.
Derived words: altar carpet
becarpet
boom carpet
brush something under the carpet
Brussels carpet
call on the carpet
call onto the carpet
carpetable
carpetbag
carpet-bag
carpet bagger
carpetball
carpet beater
carpet-beater
carpet bedding
carpet beetle
carpet bomb
carpet-bomb
carpet bombing
carpet bowling
carpet bowls
carpet bugle
carpet burn
carpet dance
carpet fitter
carpet grass
carpeting
carpet joint
carpet kisser
carpet knife
carpet knight
carpetlayer
carpetless
carpetlike
carpetmaker
carpetmaking
carpetmonger
carpet moth
carpet muncher
carpet munching
carpet python
carpet rod
carpet shark
carpetshark
carpet shell
carpet slipper
carpet snake
carpet sweeper
carpetsweeper
carpet viper
carpetward
carpetwards
carpet washer
carpetway
carpet weed
carpetweed
carpetwork
crazy carpet
deep pile carpet
Dutch carpet
fitted carpet
flying carpet
goldencarpet
golden carpet
Japanese carpet
magic carpet
mountain carpet clover
nanocarpet
on the carpet
Oriental carpet
oriental carpet
red carpet
red-carpet
roll out the red carpet
sandy carpet
satin carpet
scorched carpet
Sierpinski carpet
squaw carpet
sweep something under the carpet
the carpet matches the drapes
tragic carpet
Turkey carpet
Turkish carpet
under the carpet
upon the carpet
vase carpet
walking carpet
wood carpet
recarpet
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