What does carpet mean?

Definitions for carpet
ˈkɑr pɪtcar·pet

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. rug, carpet, carpetingnoun

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

  2. carpetverb

    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"

  3. carpetverb

    form a carpet-like cover (over)

  4. carpetverb

    cover completely, as if with a carpet

    "flowers carpeted the meadows"

  5. carpetverb

    cover with a carpet

    "carpet the floors of the house"

Wiktionary

  1. carpetnoun

    A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

  2. carpetnoun

    Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.

  3. carpetnoun

    A woman's pubic hair.

  4. carpetverb

    To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.

  5. carpetverb

    To substantially cover something, like a carpet; to blanket something.

    Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.

  6. carpetverb

    To reprimand.

  7. Etymology: From carpite, from carpita, the past participle of carpere "to pluck".

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. CARPETnoun

    Etymology: karpet, Dutch.

    Be the Jacks fair within, the Jills fair without, carpets laid, and every thing in order. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew.

    Against the wall, in the middle of the halfpace, is a chair placed before him, with a table and carpet before it. Francis Bacon.

    Go signify as much, while here we march
    Upon the grassy carpet of this plain. William Shakespeare, Richard III.

    The carpet ground shall be with leaves o’erspread,
    And boughs shall weave a cov’ring for your head. Dryden.

    The whole dry land is, for the most part, covered over with a lovely carpet of green grass, and other herbs. John Ray.

    He is knight, dubbed with unhacked rapier, and on carpet consideration. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.

  2. To Carpetverb

    To spread with carpets.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    We found him in a fair chamber, richly hanged and carpeted under foot, without any degrees to the state; he was set upon a low throne, richly adorned, and a rich cloth of state over his head, of blue sattin embroidered. Francis Bacon, New Atlantis.

    The dry land surface we find every where almost naturally carpeted over with grass, and other agreeable wholesome plants. William Derham, Physico-Theology.

Wikipedia

  1. Carpet

    A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing. The pile was traditionally made from wool, but since the 20th century synthetic fibers such as polypropylene, nylon, or polyester have often been used, as these fibers are less expensive than wool. The pile usually consists of twisted tufts that are typically heat-treated to maintain their structure. The term carpet is often used in a similar context to the term rug, but rugs are typically considered to be smaller than a room and not attached to the floor. Carpets are used for a variety of purposes, including insulating a person's feet from a cold tile or concrete floor, making a room more comfortable as a place to sit on the floor (e.g., when playing with children or as a prayer rug), reducing sound from walking (particularly in apartment buildings), and adding decoration or color to a room. Carpets can be made in any color by using differently dyed fibers. Carpets can have many different types of patterns and motifs used to decorate the surface. Carpets are used in industrial and commercial establishments such as retail stores and hotels and in private homes. Today, a huge range of carpets and rugs are available at many price and quality levels, ranging from inexpensive, synthetic carpets that are mass-produced in factories and used in commercial buildings to costly hand-knotted wool rugs that are used in private residences. Carpets can be produced on a loom quite similarly to woven fabric, made using needle felts, knotted by hand (in oriental rugs), made with their pile injected into a backing material (called tufting), flatwoven, made by hooking wool or cotton through the meshes of a sturdy fabric, or embroidered. Carpet is commonly made in widths of 12 feet (3.7 m) and 15 feet (4.6 m) in the US and 4 m (13 ft) and 5 m (16 ft) in Europe. Since the 19th and 20th century, where necessary for wall-to-wall carpet, different widths of carpet can be seamed together with a seaming iron and seam tape (formerly it was sewn together) and fixed to a floor over a cushioned underlay (pad) using nails, tack strips (known in the UK as gripper rods), adhesives, or occasionally decorative metal stair rods. Wall-to-wall carpet is distinguished from rugs or mats, which are loose-laid floor coverings, as wall-to-wall carpet is fixed to the floor and covers a much larger area.

ChatGPT

  1. carpet

    A carpet is a textile floor covering, typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing. Made from materials such as wool, nylon or polyester, it is designed to provide insulation, comfort, and decoration to a room or hall. Carpets can come in a variety of colors, patterns, and styles, and can be either area rugs or wall-to-wall installations.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Carpetnoun

    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

  2. Carpetnoun

    a smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet

  3. Carpetverb

    to cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets

  4. Etymology: [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.]

Wikidata

  1. Carpet

    A carpet is a textile floor covering consisting of an upper layer of "pile" attached to a backing. The pile is generally either made from wool or a manmade fibre such as polypropylene, nylon or polyester and usually consists of twisted tufts which are often heat-treated to maintain their structure.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Carpet

    kär′pet, n. the woven or felted covering of floors, stairs, &c.—v.t. to cover with a carpet:—pr.p. car′peting; pa.p. car′peted.—ns. Car′pet-bag, a travelling-bag, so called because usually made of carpeting; Car′pet-bag′ger, one who comes to a place for political or other ends, carrying his whole property qualification for citizenship with him in his carpet-bag; Car′pet-beat′ing, the removing of dust from carpets by beating; Car′pet-bed′ding, a system of horticulture in which plants are arranged in mosaic or geometrical designs; Car′peting, material of which carpets are made: carpets in general; Car′pet-knight, one dubbed a knight by mere court favour, not on account of his military exploits—hence an effeminate person; Car′pet-mong′er (Shak.), an effeminate person; Car′pet-rod, one of the narrow rods used to keep a stair carpet in its place.—On the carpet, under discussion. [O. Fr. carpite (Fr. carpette)—Low L. carpeta, a coarse fabric made from rags pulled to pieces—L. carpĕre, to pluck.]

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'carpet' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4235

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'carpet' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2115

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'carpet' in Nouns Frequency: #1293

Anagrams for carpet »

  1. peract

  2. preact

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of carpet in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of carpet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of carpet in a Sentence

  1. James Mischka:

    I think you will see bigger shapes on the red carpet this time, women want to look like princesses these days; princesses and queens.

  2. Regina King:

    So often, everyone out there that hears us on a red carpet and they say celebrities are using the time to talk about ourselves when we are on our soap box and using a moment to talk about the systemic things that are going on in life, time's up times two.

  3. Frank Reich:

    ... but it will be very gradual and deliberate. And of course were taking steps to make sure were in compliance with state and local regulations, and NFL and CDC guidelines. That means primarily employees that must be in the office to do their jobs : people who need to access files that are only at the office ; maintenance workers ; trainers ; and technology workers. Those people will have their temperature taken when entering the building and must wear personal protective equipment. The Colts have set up one-way hallways with arrows on the carpet pointing to the proper direction, and there will be limits on how many people can be in rooms at the same time. Coach Frank Reich was realistic about a full return to the training complex. The guys who have been hurt, who have been coming into the building, keep coming in and rehabbing and doing their thing, other than that, as soon as we can get more players in the building we want that to make up for a little bit of lost time. The sooner we can get together and get out there working, the better it will be. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones took part in an owners conference call from the teams practice facility, The Star. About two dozen staffers were present at the complex. The Steelers are doing a soft reopening Tuesday mainly for medical personnel and rehabbing players. They expect to ramp up use of their facility next week under league guidelines. As the Cardinals reopen, only essential staffers will be involved, far fewer than the 75 allowed at the facility. The Super Bowl champion Chiefs also opted for a soft opening, as did the Falcons, with only about 15 people at their complex on Tuesday. Those numbers will increase over the next week.

  4. John Keats:

    Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

  5. Marco Rubio:

    He talks tough on some of these issues. For example, he was going to carpet bomb ISIS. But the only budget he's ever voted for in his time in the Senate is a budget that cut defense spending by more than Barack Obama proposes we cut it, he voted against the Defense Authorization Act every year that it came up. And I assume that if he voted against it, he would veto it as president.

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