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C0124000 (kär′pĭt)n.1. a. A thick heavy covering for a floor, usually made of woven wool or synthetic fibers, especially one covering the entire surface of the floor.b. The fabric used for this floor covering.2. A surface or surface covering that is similar to a rug: a carpet of leaves and pine needles on the forest floor.tr.v. car·pet·ed, car·pet·ing, car·pets To cover with or as if with a carpet: carpet the stairs; snow that carpeted the sidewalks.Idiom: on the carpet1. In a position of being reprimanded by one in authority: was called on the carpet for cheating.2. Under discussion or consideration: Important matters will be on the carpet at today's meeting.

[Middle English, from Old French carpite, from Medieval Latin carpīta, from Old Italian carpita, from carpire, to pluck, from Latin carpere; see kerp- in Indo-European roots.]

carpet

(ˈkɑːpɪt) n1. (Furniture) a. a heavy fabric for covering floorsb. (as modifier): a carpet sale. 2. a covering like a carpet: a carpet of leaves. 3. on the carpet informal a. before authority to be reproved for misconduct or errorb. under considerationvb (tr) , -pets, -peting or -peted4. (Furniture) to cover with or as if with a carpet5. informal to reprimand[C14: from Old French carpite, from Old Italian carpita, from Late Latin carpeta, literally: (wool) that has been carded, from Latin carpere to pluck, card]

car•pet

(ˈkɑr pɪt)

n. 1. a heavy woven or felted fabric for covering floors. 2. a covering of this. 3. any surface or covering resembling a carpet. v.t. 4. to cover or furnish with or as if with a carpet. Idioms: on the carpet, summoned for a reprimand. [1300–50; Middle English carpete cloth covering < Middle French carpite or Medieval Latin carpīta < Italian carpita < Vulgar Latin *carpīta, past participle of *carpīre, for Latin carpere to pluck]

Carpet

a covering or expanse, as of grass or flowers; used figuratively.Examples: carpet of flowers, 1854; grassy carpet, 1593.

carpet

Past participle: carpeted
Gerund: carpeting

Imperative
carpet
carpet

Present
I carpet
you carpet
he/she/it carpets
we carpet
you carpet
they carpet

Preterite
I carpeted
you carpeted
he/she/it carpeted
we carpeted
you carpeted
they carpeted

Present Continuous
I am carpeting
you are carpeting
he/she/it is carpeting
we are carpeting
you are carpeting
they are carpeting

Present Perfect
I have carpeted
you have carpeted
he/she/it has carpeted
we have carpeted
you have carpeted
they have carpeted

Past Continuous
I was carpeting
you were carpeting
he/she/it was carpeting
we were carpeting
you were carpeting
they were carpeting

Past Perfect
I had carpeted
you had carpeted
he/she/it had carpeted
we had carpeted
you had carpeted
they had carpeted

Future
I will carpet
you will carpet
he/she/it will carpet
we will carpet
you will carpet
they will carpet

Future Perfect
I will have carpeted
you will have carpeted
he/she/it will have carpeted
we will have carpeted
you will have carpeted
they will have carpeted

Future Continuous
I will be carpeting
you will be carpeting
he/she/it will be carpeting
we will be carpeting
you will be carpeting
they will be carpeting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been carpeting
you have been carpeting
he/she/it has been carpeting
we have been carpeting
you have been carpeting
they have been carpeting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been carpeting
you will have been carpeting
he/she/it will have been carpeting
we will have been carpeting
you will have been carpeting
they will have been carpeting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been carpeting
you had been carpeting
he/she/it had been carpeting
we had been carpeting
you had been carpeting
they had been carpeting

Conditional
I would carpet
you would carpet
he/she/it would carpet
we would carpet
you would carpet
they would carpet

Past Conditional
I would have carpeted
you would have carpeted
he/she/it would have carpeted
we would have carpeted
you would have carpeted
they would have carpeted

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	carpet - floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)carpeting, rugbroadloom - a carpet woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seamsBrussels carpet - a carpet with a strong linen warp and a heavy pile of colored woolen yarns drawn up in uncut loops to form a patterndrugget - a rug made of a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a wool fillingedging - border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug)floor cover, floor covering - a covering for a floorflying carpet - (Asian folktale) an imaginary carpet that will fly people anywhere they wish to gofurnishing - (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livablehearthrug - a rug spread out in front of a fireplaceKurdistan - an oriental rug woven by Kurds that is noted for fine colors and durabilitynammad, numdah, numdah rug - an embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian feltprayer mat, prayer rug - a small rug used by Muslims during their devotionsred carpet - a strip of red carpeting laid down for dignitaries to walk onrunner - a long narrow carpetscatter rug, throw rug - a small rug; several can be used in a roomshag rug - a rug with long pilestair-carpet - a strip of carpet for laying on stairsWilton, Wilton carpet - a carpet woven on a Jacquard loom with loops like a Brussels carpet but having the loops cut to form a close velvety pile
	2.	carpet - 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"natural object - an object occurring naturally; not made by man
Verb	1.	carpet - form a carpet-like cover (over)spread over, cover - form a cover over; "The grass covered the grave"
	2.	carpet - cover completely, as if with a carpet; "flowers carpeted the meadows"cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers"
	3.	carpet - cover with a carpet; "carpet the floors of the house"cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers"

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Carpets and rugs

Aubusson, Axminster, broadloom, Brussels carpet, Bukhara rug, chenille, durrie, flat-woven, ingrain, Kidderminster, kilim, Kirman, numdah, Persian carpet or Persian rug, Turkey carpet, Wilton

Translations

地毯铺地毯

carpet

(ˈkaːpit) noun a woven covering for floors etc. 地毯 verb to cover with a carpet. They haven't carpeted the floor yet.铺地毯

carpet

→ 地毯zhCN

carpet

rug,

thick fabric, usually woolen (but often synthetic), commonly used today as a floor covering.

Carpet Types and Modern Manufactures

A few classifications—Oriental, European handwoven, Brussels, Wilton, velvet, Axminster, chenille, ingrain, rag, hooked, straw, and fiber—embrace the entire range of carpets, both antique and modern.

To the first class belong not only the genuine antique Orientals, made through the 19th cent. and now comparatively rare, but also the modern reproductions. The materials are dyed either with traditional vegetable dyes or modern (and less desirable) aniline dyes and then woven. Many modern Orientals are washed in chlorine solutions to give an effect of age or in glycerine to simulate the luster of fine wool. Commercial methods have somewhat standardized and debased the characteristic ancient patterns, but the modern Orientals are still commercially important. Moreover, some traditional Oriental rugs are still produced, incorporating the deep, rich color and intricate patterns of Persia, the brighter hues and conventionalized figures of Asian Turkey, the simpler designs and primitive colorings of Turkistan and the Caucasus, and the symbolic ornament of China.

A limited number of European handwoven carpets, both Aubussons (tapestry) and Savonneries (pile), are now made in most Western countries. Modern commercial carpets are woven on complex and highly specialized machines, a development from Bigelow's power loom. Brussels carpet has a warp and weft of linen, with a pile of worsted yarn drawn into loops by means of wires. It is called three-, four-, or five-frame, depending on the number of bobbins carrying different-colored warp threads, which make the pattern. Tapestry Brussels is an inexpensive single-frame sort, either yarn printed or piece printed.

Wilton is made on the same principle, except that the loops that form the pile are cut as they are woven into place. Velvet is an equivalent of tapestry Brussels with the pile cut. Axminster, similar in effect to Oriental, uses unlimited colors in design made on machines that loop the tufts, one color at a time, and then interlock the weft about them. Chenille, or chenille Axminster, is made in two stages. First the chenille thread, or fur, as it is called, is made, then it is folded and ironed so that the woolen fibers are like a fringe along a cotton or linen chain. This fur is then woven into a strong backing of linen with the nap on the surface.

Ingrain, no longer widely used, is a plain-weave fabric, of two- or three-ply woolen weft on a concealed cotton warp. Rag carpets, made of used rags sewn together for warp, were first woven on household looms; they became commercially important in the latter part of the 19th cent. Hooked rugs are made of narrow strips of woolen cloth drawn by a pointed hook through a canvas foundation on which a design is indicated.

Early History

Carpets were formerly woven to protect the body from cold, to be spread on a dais or before a seat of honor, to cover a table, couch, or wall, or to form the curtains of a tent. There is evidence of the existence of handwoven carpets in antiquity. On the rock tombs of Beni Hassan, Egypt, c.2500 B.C., men are depicted with the implements of rug weaving. Other evidence of the early use of rugs is seen in the drawings on the ancient palace walls of Nineveh.

Oriental Carpets

In the mountainous regions of the East stretching from Turkey through Persia and Central Asia into China, where the fleece of the sheep and the hair of the camel and goat grow long and fine, the art of carpet-weaving reached its height early in the 16th cent. The artisan worked on a handloom consisting essentially of two horizontal beams on which the warp (the vertical threads) was stretched; on the lower one the finished carpet was rolled while the warp unrolled from the upper one. The yarn for the pile, spun and dyed by hand, was cut in lengths of about 2 in. (5.1 cm) and knotted about the warp threads, one tuft at a time, after one of the two established ways of tying—the Ghiordes, or Turkish, knot and the Senna, or Persian, knot.

After a row of knots had been placed across the width of the loom, two or more weft, or horizontal, threads of cotton or flax were woven in and beaten into place with a heavy beater, or comb. The tufts, or pile, thus appeared only on the face of the fabric, which when completed was sheared to perfect smoothness. Although the hair of the camel and the goat was used in the weaving of Oriental rugs, the wool of the sheep was the essential component. Beautiful silk rugs interwoven with gold thread were also made in the 16th and 17th cent. To some degree, the quality of a carpet depends on the materials used and the number of knots per square inch of surface, which may vary from 40 to 1,000. Also produced in these regions are the geometrically patterned and flat woven rugs known as kilims.

European Carpets

In 1608, King Henry IV of France established weavers in the Louvre. About 20 years later an old soap works, the Savonnerie, near Paris, was converted to carpet weaving, and its name remains attached to one of the finest types of handmade carpet, now made at the Gobelin tapestry factory. Tapestries for walls and floors were made at Aubusson at an early date.

In 1685 the revocation of the Edict of Nantes scattered skilled Protestant carpetmakers over Europe. Centers of weaving were established in England, first at Kidderminster (1735) and later at Wilton and Axminster. Cheaper, more easily manufactured floor covering soon came into demand, and the making of ingrain, or reversible, carpets began at Kidderminster. The weavers of Flanders had made a loom that produced a pile by looping the worsted warp threads, and this loom, although guarded, was copied by a Kidderminster weaver; soon many looms in England were making Brussels carpet. Axminster was England's headquarters for imitation Oriental, or tufted-pile, carpet.

Until about 1840 all carpets were made on handlooms with such devices and improvements as could be operated by hand or foot power; then Erastus Bigelow's power loom (first used in 1841), which made it possible for carpets to be mass produced, revolutionized the industry. Although handmade rugs are still produced in some countries, e.g., Turkey, carpet manufacturing has become a highly mechanized industry, notably in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Belgium, and Japan.

Other Rugs

In North America the Navajos and other tribes have for generations produced substantial rugs without pile, woven somewhat in the manner of tapestrytapestry,
hand-woven fabric of plain weave made without shuttle or drawboy, the design of weft threads being threaded into the warp with fingers or a bobbin. The name has been extended to cover a variety of heavy materials, such as imitation tapestries woven on Jacquard looms,
..... Click the link for more information. on simple handlooms. In the palaces of Montezuma remarkable floor coverings were found that utilized the plumage of birds. The primitive use of rushes or straw has survived in the form of Chinese and Japanese mattings.

Bibliography

See W. von Bode and E. Kühnel, Antique Rugs from the Near East (tr. of 4th rev. ed. 1970); G. Robinson, Carpets and Other Textile Floorcoverings (2d rev. ed. 1972); J. Moshimer, The Complete Rug Hooker (1975); E. Gans-Ruedin, The Splendor of Persian Carpets (1978).

What does it mean when you dream about a carpet?

A carpet decorates but can also hide, as in the expression “to sweep under the carpet,” so a carpet in a dream can indicate something that is hidden. Carpets also have a positive, welcoming meaning, as in the expression “to roll out the red carpet.”

carpet

carpet construction A heavy, durable floor covering, usually of woven, knitted, or needle-tufted fabric; commonly installed with tacks or staples, or by adhesives.

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Carpet Types and Modern Manufactures

Early History

Oriental Carpets

European Carpets

Other Rugs

Bibliography

What does it mean when you dream about a carpet?

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Synonyms for carpet

noun floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)

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noun a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet

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verb form a carpet-like cover (over)

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verb cover completely, as if with a carpet

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verb cover with a carpet

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