Definitions for carpeting

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carpeting car·pet·ing

Spelling: [kahr-pi-ting]

IPA: /ˈkɑr pɪ tɪŋ/

Carpeting is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 679 anagrams from letters in carpeting (aceginprt).

Definitions for carpeting

noun

1. material for carpets.
2. carpets in general.
3. a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
4. a covering of this material.
5. any relatively soft surface or covering like a carpet:
6. any of a number of airborne electronic devices for jamming radar.
7. a system of such devices.

Idioms

1. on the carpet, before an authority or superior for an accounting of one's actions or a reprimand: Chiefly British. under consideration or discussion.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or furnish with or as with a carpet.
2. Chiefly British. to reprimand.

Origin of carpeting

First recorded in 1750-60; carpet + -ing¹

Examples for carpeting

But with us he was obliged to make his couch on some old pieces of carpeting.

Her skirts must indeed have brushed the carpeting of those steps scores of times.

It is calculated that one of these balls will weave about a yard of carpeting.

The hair was shorn after the gassings, then efficiently dried in the crematoria so it could be industrially spun into carpeting.

The village houses are done up in pale gray and mauve and preside over lawns so neat and green they look like carpeting.

The platform is covered, as is the floor, with Brussels carpeting.

Here, doubtless, the birds had got some of their carpeting material.

He moved up behind her, his footsteps muffled by the carpeting.

Or, if the carpeting is not convenient, piece a covering of worsteds.

The carpeting is worn, the furniture is falling apart, and the electricity is out for most of the day.