Carpet vs. Carpetless — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Carpet and Carpetless
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Definitions
Carpet
A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing. The pile was traditionally made from wool, but since the 20th century, synthetic fibers such as polypropylene, nylon or polyester are often used, as these fibers are less expensive than wool.
Carpetless
Not carpeted
Carpet
A thick heavy covering for a floor, usually made of woven wool or synthetic fibers, especially one covering the entire surface of the floor.
Carpetless
Without a carpet.
Carpet
The fabric used for this floor covering.
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Carpet
A surface or surface covering that is similar to a rug
A carpet of leaves and pine needles on the forest floor.
Carpet
To cover with or as if with a carpet
Carpet the stairs.
Snow that carpeted the sidewalks.
Carpet
A fabric used as a complete floor covering.
Carpet
(figuratively) Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.
Carpet
Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae
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Carpet
(obsolete) A wrought cover for tables.
Carpet
A woman's pubic hair.
Carpet
To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.
After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.
The builders were carpeting in the living room when Zadie inspected her new house.
Carpet
(transitive) To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.
Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.
Carpet
(UK) To reprimand.
Carpet
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.
Carpet
A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.
Carpet
To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.
Carpeted temples in fashionable squares.
Carpet
Floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)
Carpet
Form a carpet-like cover (over)
Carpet
Cover completely, as if with a carpet;
Flowers carpeted the meadows
Carpet
Cover with a carpet;
Carpet the floors of the house