carpet Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)
    rug; carpeting.
  2. noun 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
  3. verb form a carpet-like cover (over)
  4. verb cover completely, as if with a carpet
    • flowers carpeted the meadows
  5. verb cover with a carpet
    • carpet the floors of the house

WordNet

Car"pet noun
Etymology
OF. carpite rug, soft of cloth, F. carpette coarse packing cloth, rug (cf. It. carpita rug, blanket), LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card (wool); cf. Gr. fruit, E. Harvest.
Definitions
  1. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables.
    Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets. T. Fuller.
  2. A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet. "The grassy carpet of this plain." Shak.
Car"pet transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Carpeted; present participle & verbal noun Carpeting
Definitions
  1. To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.
    Carpeted temples in fashionable squares. E. Everett.

Webster 1913