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Definition of Carpet
1. Verb. Form a carpet-like cover (over). "Dust and dirt carpet the area"
2. Noun. Floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile).
Specialized synonyms: Broadloom, Brussels Carpet, Drugget, Flying Carpet, Hearthrug, Kurdistan, Nammad, Numdah, Numdah Rug, Prayer Mat, Prayer Rug, Red Carpet, Runner, Scatter Rug, Throw Rug, Shag Rug, Stair-carpet, Wilton, Wilton Carpet
Terms within: Edging
Generic synonyms: Floor Cover, Floor Covering, Furnishing
3. Verb. Cover completely, as if with a carpet. "The wind storms carpet the area with dust and dirt"; "Flowers carpeted the meadows"
4. Noun. A natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet. "The larvae of some moths spin a web that resembles a carpet"
5. Verb. Cover with a carpet. "Carpet the floors of the house"
Definition of Carpet
1. n. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables.
2. v. t. To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.
Definition of Carpet
1. Noun. A fabric used as a complete floor covering. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function. ¹
3. Noun. (vulgar) A woman's pubic hair. ¹
4. Verb. To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To substantially cover something, like a carpet; to blanket something. ¹
6. Verb. (U.K.) To reprimand. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carpet
1. to cover a floor with a heavy fabric [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpet
Literary usage of Carpet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"2 is brought by_ the Bigelow carpet Company, for the infringement of design
letters patent No. 10778, granted August 13, 1878, to the plaintiff, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Possibly from the Italian carpet (common), to be called upon the carpet, ...
Synonymous with carpet-bag politician. Wright gives the definition: ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"It cost " carpet-baggers'" nothing to squander money which was furnished by their
political opponents. To crown all, the personal character of very many ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"THE NEW carpet BEETLE—ANTHRENUS ... TOURING the summer of 1874, notices appeared
in various *J newspapers of the ravages of a carpet-beetle, quite different ..."
5. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"carpet KNIGHTS. Knights dubbed in peace, on a carpet, by mere court ... Some have
thought that there was actually an order of Knights of the carpet. ..."
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