carpet
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French carpite, from Medieval Latin carpita, the past participle of carpere (“to pluck”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
carpet (plural carpets) (uncountable and countable)
- A fabric used as a complete floor covering.
- (figuratively) Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.
- (vulgar) A woman's pubic hair.
Usage notes [edit]
- Rug and carpet are not ordinarily strictly synonymous. A rug covers part of the floor; a carpet covers most or all of the floor; a fitted carpet runs wall-to-wall.
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from "carpet"
Translations [edit]
A fabric used as a floor covering
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Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfulling its function
Verb [edit]
carpet (third-person singular simple present carpets, present participle carpeting, simple past and past participle carpeted)
- To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.
- After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.
- The builders were carpeting in the living room when Zadie inspected her new house.
- (transitive) To substantially cover something, like a carpet; to blanket something.
- Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.
- (UK) To reprimand.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 428:
- Even Colonel Yakov, so recently carpeted by St Petersburg, was reported to be back in the Pamirs.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 428:
Translations [edit]
to lay carpet
to cover like a carpet
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Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
carpet
- third-person singular future active indicative of carpō
