carpet

sustantivo

1. 1

   A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

   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.

   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.

   The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

2. 2

   figuradoAny surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.

   the grassy carpet of this plain

   Way deep in left field, where the carpet of green sloped upward to a terrace and greeted the thick line of trees, he reached out his glove.

3. 3

   Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae

4. 4

   obsoletoA wrought cover for tables.

   Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets.

5. 5

   jergaA woman's pubic hair.

verbo

1. 1

   To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.

   After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.

   The builders were carpeting in the living room when Zadie inspected her new house.

2. 2

   figuradoTo substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.

   Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.

   Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils.

3. 3

   To reprimand.

   Even Colonel Yakov, so recently carpeted by St Petersburg, was reported to be back in the Pamirs.

Formas

plural

carpets

pasado

carpeted

participio

carpeted

gerundio

carpeting

3.ª persona del singular

carpets