Definitions for Carpet

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Carpet car·pet

Spelling: [kahr-pit]

IPA: /ˈkɑr pɪt/

Carpet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in Carpet (aceprt).

Definitions for Carpet

noun

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

1300-50; Middle English carpete cloth covering for a table, floor, bed, etc. Middle French carpite or Medieval Latin carpīta Italian carpita woolen bedspread Vulgar Latin *carpīta, past parti

Examples for Carpet

And it is a situation impossible to brush under the carpet because the Confederacy transformed the Union.

On the steps, a carpet, thick and heavy, muffled his footfalls.

The carpet is stained from the door to the window with red wine.

His father, Hassan, is a carpet merchant with close relations to senior members of the conservative Islamic Coalition Party.

He didn't see that she was perspiring, worn out by her struggle with the carpet.

The fact that Israel gets called on the carpet so often is wrapped in a multitude of sometimes contradictory factors.

But Friday morning, the monthly jobs report dumped a steaming pile of caution on the carpet.

The carpet was soft and rich; it gave back no sound of footfall.

Convalescents who were able to walk flapped along in carpet slippers.

Mr Dorrit stood rooted to the carpet, a statue of mystification.