carpet

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/ˈkɑː.pɪt/

noun · verb

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01
noun
A thick floor covering made from woven material.
02
verb
To cover a floor with carpet.

Examples

He spent the morning laying the new carpet.
Of course, to be valuable, an old carpet must be in good condition.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5

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noun

Extra meanings

Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae
Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.
A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

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In context

This carpet is one of the most beautiful.
After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.
Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.

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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, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York...
Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 194, about Gainford, Co. Durham
Even Colonel Yakov, so recently carpeted by St Petersburg, was reported to be back in the Pamirs.
1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 428
At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...' She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.
1992 June 24, Edwina Currie, Diary
The railways are anxious to refurbish their stations and rolling stock when they can get labour and materials, although it is unlikely that they contemplate deep carpets in wayside waiting rooms. Lack of carpets at present is not confined to railways, and roaring fires in the present fuel scarcity would probably be considered anti-social in wayside waiting rooms.
1946 March and April, “State Railway Dreams”, in Railway Magazine, page 67

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Origin

noun

From late Middle English carpette, from Old French carpite, from Medieval Latin carpita or Italian carpita, introduced in the 13th century by the Florentines from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, from Middle Armenian կարպետ (karpet, “carpet, rug”), earlier կապերտ (kapert).

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noun

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She vacuumed the dirty blank— in the living room every morning.

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noun

She vacuumed the dirty blank in the living room every morning.