CARPET

rug, carpet, carpeting

(noun) floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)

carpet

(noun) a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet; “a carpet of flowers”; “the larvae of some moths spin a web that resembles a carpet”

carpet

(verb) cover with a carpet; “carpet the floors of the house”

carpet

(verb) cover completely, as if with a carpet; “flowers carpeted the meadows”

carpet

(verb) form a carpet-like cover (over)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

carpet (countable and uncountable, plural carpets)

A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

(figuratively) Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.

Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae

(obsolete) A wrought cover for tables.

(slang, vulgar) A woman's pubic hair.

Usage notes

The terms carpet and rug are often used interchangeably, but various distinctions are drawn. Most often, a rug is loose and covers part of a floor, while a carpet covers most or all of the floor, and may be loose or attached, while a fitted carpet runs wall-to-wall.

Initially carpet referred primarily to table and wall coverings, today called tablecloth or tapestry – the use of the term for floor coverings dates to the 18th century, following trade with Persia.

Verb

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.

(transitive) To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.

(UK) To reprimand.

Anagrams

• cet. par., peract, preact

Source: Wiktionary

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Car"pet, n. Etym: [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. 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 (Zoöl.), a small beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariæ), 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 (Zoöl.), the larva of an insect which feeds on carpets and other woolen goods. There are several kinds. Some are the larvæ of species of Tinea (as T. tapetzella); others of beetles, esp. Anthrenus.

– Carpet snake (Zoöl.), 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.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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