carpet
['kɑ:pit]
n. 毯, 毯状

vt. 铺毯, 铺盖

1. My plan will be on the carpet at today's meeting.
   今议将议。
2. Our living room is covered with a carpet.
   起室里铺毯。
3. The boss had me on the carpet over my expenses claim.
   索销费，老板把去顿。

carpet
[ noun ]

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

<noun.artifact>

2. a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet

<noun.object>
a carpet of flowers
the larvae of some moths spin a web that resembles a carpet

[ verb ]

1. form a carpet-like cover (over)

<verb.stative>

2. cover completely, as if with a carpet

<verb.contact>
flowers carpeted the meadows

3. cover with a carpet

<verb.contact>
carpet the floors of the house

Carpet \Car"pet\ (k[aum]r"p[e^]t), n. [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. karpo`s fruit, E.
{Harvest}.]
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.

{Carpet beetle} or {Carpet bug} (Zo["o]l.), a small beetle
({Anthrenus scrophulari[ae]}), which, in the larval state,
does great damage to carpets and other woolen goods; --
also called {buffalo bug}.

{Carpet knight}.
(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.

{Carpet moth} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of an insect which feeds
on carpets and other woolen goods. There are several
kinds. Some are the larv[ae] of species of {Tinea} (as
{Tinea tapetzella}); others of beetles, esp. {Anthrenus}.


{Carpet snake} (Zo["o]l.), an Australian snake. See {Diamond
snake}, under {Diamond}.

{Carpet sweeper}, an apparatus or device for sweeping
carpets.

{To be on the carpet}, 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.

{Brussels carpet}. See under {Brussels}.


Carpet \Car"pet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Carpeted}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Carpeting}.]
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.