About The Word Carpet
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Carpet
Carpet Definition And Meaning |
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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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