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car⋅pet⋅ing
[kahr-pi-ting] 
–noun
| 1. | material for carpets. |
| 2. | carpets in general. |
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.] |
| car·pet·ing (kär'pĭ-tĭng) n.
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Carpeting
Car"pet*ing\, n. 1. The act of covering with carpets. 2. Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general. The floor was covered with rich carpeting. --Prescott.
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