carpet

nom

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

   figuréAny 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

   obsolèteA wrought cover for tables.

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

5. 5

   argotA woman's pubic hair.

verbe

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

   figuréTo 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.

Formes

pluriel

carpets

passé

carpeted

participe passé

carpeted

participe présent

carpeting

3ᵉ personne du singulier

carpets