carpet
Noun:
- A floor covering: A thick, heavy fabric, often with a soft surface (nap or pile), used to cover floors for warmth, comfort, or decoration.
- A thick layer covering a surface: Something that covers an area completely and densely, resembling a fabric carpet (e.g., a layer of grass, flowers, or snow).
Verb:
- To cover a floor with a carpet: To lay or fit a carpet onto a floor.
- To cover completely: To spread over an area in a thick, continuous layer, as if covering it with a carpet.
Noun:
- We bought a new wool carpet for the living room.
- In spring, the forest floor becomes a carpet of bluebells.
Verb:
- They decided to carpet the entire upstairs.
- Autumn leaves carpeted the path through the park.
"To be on the carpet": To be summoned for a reprimand or serious discussion, typically by someone in authority.
- The manager called him into the office; he knew he was on the carpet for the mistake.
"To sweep something under the carpet": To hide or ignore a problem or difficulty in the hope that it will be forgotten.
- The company tried to sweep the scandal under the carpet, but the truth eventually came out.
Carpeting (n): Material used for carpets; the act of laying carpets.
- They selected a durable carpeting for the hallway.
Carpeted (adj): Describing a floor or area covered with a carpet.
- The carpeted stairs were quiet to walk on.
Carpet-bomb (v): A military term meaning to bomb an area intensively and thoroughly. (Note: This is a compound verb listed here as a related term).
- The area was carpet-bombed during the conflict.
- Noun (for floor covering): Rug, mat.
- Noun (for a thick layer): Blanket, cover, sheet.
- Verb (to cover a floor): Rug.
- Verb (to cover an area): Blanket, cover, spread over.
- Carpet out (Informal, rare): To reprimand someone severely.
- He was carpeted out by his boss for being late again.
The red carpet treatment: Special treatment or a grand welcome given to an important guest.
- The visiting dignitary received the red carpet treatment at the airport.
To have someone/something at your feet (like a carpet): To have complete control or admiration from someone. (This idiom uses the concept metaphorically).
- With her brilliant performance, she had the entire audience at her feet.
- a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet
- a carpet of flowers
- the larvae of some moths spin a web that resembles a carpet
- floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)
- cover with a carpet
- carpet the floors of the house
- cover completely, as if with a carpet
- flowers carpeted the meadows
- form a carpet-like cover (over)