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carpet

UK /ˈkɑː.pɪt/US /ˈkɑɹ.pət/

noun 5
verb 3
forms 3
phrases 2

noun5

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a heavy soft material that covers the whole floor of a room
- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. — 1913
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(figurative) Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.
- Way deep in left field, where the carpet of green sloped upward to a terrace and greeted the thick line of trees, he reached out his glove. — 2009
(slang, vulgar) A woman's pubic hair.
Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae
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(no longer used) A wrought cover for tables.
- Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets. — 1655

verb3

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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.
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(figurative) To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.
- Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.
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(UK) To reprimand.
- Even Colonel Yakov, so recently carpeted by St Petersburg, was reported to be back in the Pamirs. — 1990

forms

carpeted · carpeting · carpets

Phrases with carpet

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