carpet

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

carpets

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

carpet

past (v2)

carpeted

past participle (v3)

carpeted

present participle

carpeting

3rd person singular

carpets

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

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.

2. 2.Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae

3. 3.A woman's pubic hair.(slang)

4. 4.Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.

   • 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.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To reprimand.

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

2. 2.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.

3. 3.To 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.

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