carpet /kärˈpit/

1. A woven, felted or tufted covering for floors, stairs, etc
2. A smooth, or thin, surface or covering
3. The surface of the ground (cricket)
4. A prison sentence of three months (slang)
5. Odds of three to one (bookmakers' sl)
6. 300 (salesmen's sl)
7. A carpet-moth
8. A tablecloth (Shakespeare)

1. To cover with or as if with a carpet
2. To reprimand

carˈpeting noun

1. Material of which carpets are made
2. Carpet, or carpets
3. A reprimand

carˈpetbag noun

A travelling bag made of carpeting

carˈpetbagger noun (derogatory)

1. A person who uses a place or organization with which he or she has no previous connection for political, financial or other ends
2. In the USA, an adventurer from the Northern states who sought a political career in the South after the end of the Civil War, whose only property qualification for office was his carpetbag of personal belongings

carpetbag steak noun

A beefsteak stuffed with oysters

carpet beating noun

The removal of dust from carpets by beating

carˈpet-bed or carˈpet-bedding noun

A system of horticulture in which plants are arranged in mosaic or geometrical designs

carpet beetle or (N American) carpet bug noun

Any of several beetles or their larvae which are harmful to carpets and fabrics

carpet biter noun (informal)

A person prone to violent fits of rage

carˈpet-bomb transitive verb

carˈpet-bombing noun

1. Systematic bombing of a whole area
2. The delivery of unsolicited mail, esp advertising matter

carˈpet-knight noun

1. A knight dubbed at court by favour, not on account of his military exploits
2. Hence a shirker, idler

carˈpetmonger noun (Shakespeare)

An effeminate person

carˈpet-moth noun

Any of the larger moths of the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae

carpet plot noun (mathematics)

The function of more than one variable represented as values on a graph, the shape of which resembles a flying carpet

carˈpet-rod noun

One of the rods used to keep a stair carpet in its place

carpet shark noun

A shark of the genus Orectolobus, with a spotted back like a patterned carpet

carˈpet-slipper noun

A slipper with an upper orig made of carpeting

carpet snake or carpet python noun

A variegated python of Australia (Morelia variegata)

carˈpet-sweeper noun

An apparatus with a revolving brush and a dustpan, for sweeping carpets

carpet tile noun

One of a number of squares of carpeting which are laid together in such a way as to form an area of carpet

brush or sweep under the carpet

To hide from someone's notice, put out of one's mind (unpleasant problems or facts)

• uncanonised
• uncanonises
• uncanonising
• uncanonize
• uncanonized
• uncanonizes
• uncanonizing
• uncap
• uncapable
• uncape
• uncaped
• uncapes
• uncaping
• uncapped
• uncapping
• uncaps
• uncapsizable
• uncared for
• uncared-for
• uncareful
• uncaring
• uncarpeted
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• uncarting