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car⋅pet
[kahr-pit] 
–noun
| 1. | a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors. |
| 2. | a covering of this material. |
| 3. | any relatively soft surface or covering like a carpet: They walked on the carpet of grass. |
| 4. | any of a number of airborne electronic devices for jamming radar. |
| 5. | a system of such devices. |
–verb (used with object)
—Idiom| 6. | to cover or furnish with or as with a carpet. |
| 7. | Chiefly British. to reprimand. |
| 8. | on the carpet,
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Origin:
1300–50; ME carpete cloth covering for a table, floor, bed, etc. < MF carpite or ML carpīta < It carpita woolen bedspread < VL *carpīta, ptp. of carpīre, for L carpere to pluck, card (wool)
1300–50; ME carpete cloth covering for a table, floor, bed, etc. < MF carpite or ML carpīta < It carpita woolen bedspread < VL *carpīta, ptp. of carpīre, for L carpere to pluck, card (wool)
Related forms:
car⋅pet⋅less, adjective
car⋅pet⋅like, adjective
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| car·pet (kär'pĭt) n.
To cover with or as if with a carpet: carpet the stairs; snow that carpeted the sidewalks. [Middle English, from Old French carpite, from Medieval Latin carpīta, from Old Italian carpita, from carpire, to pluck, from Latin carpere; see kerp- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Carpet
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.carpet
. (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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Language Translation for : carpet
Spanish:
alfombra,
German:
der Teppich,
Japanese:
じゅうたん
carpet
1291, "coarse cloth;" 1345, "tablecloth, bedspread," from O.Fr. carpite, from M.L. carpita "thick woolen cloth," pp. of L. carpere "to card, pluck," probably because it was made from unraveled, shreded, "plucked" fabric, from PIE *kerp- "to gather, pluck, harvest" (see harvest). Meaning shifted 15c. to floor coverings. The verb meaning "to cover with a carpet" is from c.1626. From 16c.-19c. often with a tinge of contempt, when used of men (e.g. carpet-knight, 1576) by assoc. with luxury, ladies' boudoirs, and drawing rooms. Carpetbagger, scornful appellation for Northerners who went South after the Civil War seeking private gain or political advancement is first attested 1868, Amer.Eng., formed from carpetbag (n.), 1830, a traveling bag made from carpet fabric. On the carpet "summoned for reprimand" is 1900, U.S. colloquial. To sweep (something) under the carpet in the fig. sense is first recorded 1963.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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carpet
see call on the carpet; red carpet. Also see under rug.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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