carpet : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a carpet beetle that is solid black in color
  

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• noun a carpet with a strong linen warp and a heavy pile of colored woolen yarns drawn up in uncut loops to form a pattern
  

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• a kind of carpet made of worsted yarn fixed in a foundation web of strong linen thread. The worsted, which alone shows on the upper surface in drawn up in loops to form the pattern.

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• noun a small black and red and white carpet beetle
  Anthrenus scrophulariae.
  

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• verb censure severely or angrily
  rag; dress down; remonstrate; chew out; take to task; call down; jaw; lambast; trounce; scold; chide; berate; chew up; have words; rebuke; reprimand; reproof; lecture; bawl out; lambaste.
  
  • The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
  • The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
  • The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup

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• noun implement for beating dust out of carpets
  rug beater.
  

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• noun small beetle whose larvae are household pests feeding on woolen fabrics
  carpet beetle.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariæ), which, in the larval state, does great damage to carpets and other woolen goods; also called buffalo bug.

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• verb bomb a large area systematically and extensively
  carpet bomb.
  
  • The U.S. decided to carpet bomb Vietnam

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• noun an extensive and systematic bombing intended to devastate a large target
  area bombing; saturation bombing.
  
• verb bomb a large area systematically and extensively
  carpet bomb.
  
  • The U.S. decided to carpet bomb Vietnam

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• noun small beetle whose larvae are household pests feeding on woolen fabrics
  carpet beetle.
  

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• noun grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus
  Sporobolus poiretii; blackseed; smut grass.
  

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• noun a knight who spends his time in luxury and idleness (knighted on the carpet at court rather than on the field of battle)
  

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• . (a) A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field; a hero of the drawing room; an effeminate person. Shak. (b) One made a knight, for some other than military distinction or service.

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• noun a loom for weaving carpeting
  

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• noun larvae feed on carpets and other woolens
  tapestry moth; Trichophaga tapetzella.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the larva of an insect which feeds on carpets and other woolen goods. There are several kinds. Some are the larvæ of species of Tinea (as T. tapetzella); others of beetles, esp. Anthrenus.

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• noun a pad placed under a carpet
  underlayment; underlay; rug pad.
  

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• noun shark of the western Pacific with flattened body and mottled skin
  Orectolobus barbatus.
  

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• noun low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors
  slipper.
  

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• noun Australian python with a variegated pattern on its back
  Morelia spilotes variegatus; Python variegatus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), an Australian snake. See Diamond snake, under Diamond.

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• noun a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet
  sweeper.
  

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• an apparatus or device for sweeping carpets.

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• noun used to nail down carpets
  

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• noun (Asian folktale) an imaginary carpet that will fly people anywhere they wish to go
  

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• a double or two-ply carpet.

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• noun lawn grass common in the Philippines; grown also in United States
  Manila grass; Zoysia matrella.
  

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• a carpet of which the weft consists of narrow of cloth sewed together, end to end.

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• noun a strip of red carpeting laid down for dignitaries to walk on
  
• adjective satellite special treatment or hospitality
  red carpet.
  
  • the maitre d' gave them the red-carpet treatment

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• adjective satellite special treatment or hospitality
  red carpet.
  
  • the maitre d' gave them the red-carpet treatment

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• noun a strip of carpet for laying on stairs
  

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• a kind of carpet, somewhat resembling Brussels, in which the warp is printed before weaving, so as to produce the figure in the cloth.

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• to be under consideration; to be the subject of deliberation; to be in sight; an expression derived from the use of carpets as table cover.

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• a three-ply carpet.

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• a kind of carpet or rug supposed to be made by the Turcomans.

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• a superior kind of carpet made in Asia Minor and adjoining countries, having a deep pile and composed of pure wool with a weft of different material. It is distinguishable by its coloring and patterns from similar carpets made in India and elsewhere.

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• an inexpensive carpet, used for passages and stairs, having a woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes.

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• noun aquatic herb with yellowish flowers; central and western United States
  Chrysosplenium americanum; water mat.
  

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• noun a carpet woven on a Jacquard loom with loops like a Brussels carpet but having the loops cut to form a close velvety pile
  Wilton.
  

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Wil"ton car`pet

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1. A kind of carpet woven with loops like the Brussels, but differing from it in having the loops cut so as to form an elastic velvet pile; -- so called because made originally at Wilton, England.

Webster 1913

• a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth. Knight.

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