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Carpet

Carpet Meaning & Definition
Carpet Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Carpet?

[n] floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)
[v] cover with a carpet, as of the floors of rooms
[v] cover completely, as if with a carpet; as of flowers in meadows
[v] form a carpet-like cover (over)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Carpet: carpeting | rug

Related Terms | Find terms related to Carpet: asphalt | Axminster | berate | blacktop | body Brussels | broadloom | Brussels carpet | carpeting | Caucasian rug | causeway | cement | Chinese rug | cobblestone | concrete | cover | deck | doormat | drop cloth | drugget | duckboards | earth | East Indian rug | flag | floor | floor covering | floorboards | flooring | ground | ground cloth | ground-sheet | Indian rug | ingrain | lash | mat | metal | moquette | namda | nammad | Oriental rug | parquet | pave | pavement | paving | pebble | Persian rug | rail | rate | rug | rugs | Savonnerie | surfacing | take to task | tar | tell off | terra firma | throw rug | tiling | Turkish rug | upbraid | vituperate | welcome mat | wig | Wilton

See Also | broadloom | Brussels carpet | cover | cover | drugget | edging | floor covering | floorcover | flying carpet | furnishings | hearthrug | nammad | numdah | numdah rug | prayer mat | prayer rug | red carpet | scatter rug | shag rug | spread over | stair-carpet | throw rug | Wilton

Carpet In Webster's Dictionary

\Car"pet\ (k[aum]r"p[e^]t), n. [OF. carpite rug, soft of cloth, F. carpette coarse packing cloth, rug (cf. It. carpita rug, blanket), LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card (wool); cf. Gr. karpo`s fruit, E. {Harvest}.] 1. 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. Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets. --T. Fuller. 2. A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet. ``The grassy carpet of this plain.'' --Shak. {Carpet beetle} or {Carpet bug} (Zo["o]l.), a small beetle ({Anthrenus scrophulari[ae]}), which, in the larval state, does great damage to carpets and other woolen goods; -- also called {buffalo bug}. {Carpet knight}. (a) A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field; a hero of the drawing room; an effeminate person. --Shak. (b) One made a knight, for some other than military distinction or service. {Carpet moth} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of an insect which feeds on carpets and other woolen goods. There are several kinds. Some are the larv[ae] of species of {Tinea} (as {T. tapetzella}); others of beetles, esp. {Anthrenus}. {Carpet snake} (Zo["o]l.), an Australian snake. See {Diamond snake}, under {Diamond}. {Carpet sweeper}, an apparatus or device for sweeping carpets. {To be on the carpet}, to be under consideration; to be the subject of deliberation; to be in sight; -- an expression derived from the use of carpets as table cover. {Brussels carpet}. See under {Brussels}.
\Car"pet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Carpeted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Carpeting}.] To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets. Carpeted temples in fashionable squares. --E. Everett.
\ . (a) [More fully chenille Axminster.] A variety of Turkey carpet, woven by machine or, when more than 27 inches wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (1755 -- 1835) made. (b) A similar but cheaper machine-made carpet, resembling moquette in construction and appearance, but finer and of better material.

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