Carpet
21carpet — See: CALL ON THE CARPET, MAGIC CARPET, ROLL OUT THE RED CARPET …
22carpet — See: CALL ON THE CARPET, MAGIC CARPET, ROLL OUT THE RED CARPET …
23carpet — See: call on the carpet, magic carpet, roll out the red carpet …
24carpet*/*/ — [ˈkɑːpɪt] noun I 1) [C/U] a thick soft cover for a floor 2) [C] literary a layer of something soft covering the ground a carpet of autumn leaves[/ex] • See: red I, sweep I II verb [T] carpet [ˈkɑːpɪt] to cover a floor with a carpet …
25carpet — car•pet [[t]ˈkɑr pɪt[/t]] n. 1) tex a heavy woven or felted fabric for covering floors 2) tex a covering of this 3) any surface or covering resembling a carpet 4) to cover or furnish with or as if with a carpet • on the carpet Etymology: 1300–50; …
26carpet — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French carpite, from Old Italian carpita, from carpire to pluck, modification of Latin carpere to pluck more at harvest Date: 15th century 1. a heavy often tufted fabric used as a floor covering; also a …
27carpet — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. rug, drugget; wall to wall, broadloom, Oriental, etc. See covering. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. carpeting, rug, floor covering, matting, wall to wall carpet, indoor carpeting, outdoor carpeting; see also… …
28carpet — To be boring, dull, plain or monotonous. Reference to how boring carpet shopping is, or how monotonous and lacking in personality a person is. I don t believe how carpet this speaker is I bet he practices carpetry …
29carpet — To be boring, dull, plain or monotonous. Reference to how boring carpet shopping is, or how monotonous and lacking in personality a person is. I don t believe how carpet this speaker is I bet he practices carpetry …
30carpet — 1. to reprimand Unlike the workshop or servants quarters, the master s room had a floor covering on which the defaulter had to stand: Do I carpet the head of the risk department or what? (McCrum, 1991) Beware the French sur le tapis …
