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Carpeting
is always a great word to know.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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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)
Idiom6.
to cover or furnish with or as with a carpet.
7.
Chiefly British. to reprimand.
8.
on the carpet,
a.
before an authority or superior for an accounting of one's actions or a reprimand: He was called on the carpet again for his carelessness.
b.
Chiefly British. under consideration or discussion.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English carpete cloth covering for a table, floor, bed, etc. < Middle French carpite or Medieval Latin carpīta < Italian carpita woolen bedspread < Vulgar Latin *carpīta, past participle of carpīre, for Latin carpere to pluck, card (wool)
1300–50; Middle English carpete cloth covering for a table, floor, bed, etc. < Middle French carpite or Medieval Latin carpīta < Italian carpita woolen bedspread < Vulgar Latin *carpīta, past participle of carpīre, for Latin carpere to pluck, card (wool)
Related forms
car·pet·less, adjective
car·pet·like, adjective
re·car·pet, verb (used with object)
un·car·pet·ed, adjective
well-car·pet·ed, adjective
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Word Origin & History
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
EXPAND 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. On the carpet "summoned for reprimand" is 1900, U.S. colloquial (but cf. carpet (v.) "call (someone) to be reprimanded," 1823, British servants' slang). To sweep (something) under the carpet in the fig. sense is first recorded 1963.
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