Definition of Carpet

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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.

A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.

To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.

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Carpet Quotations

Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma Bombeck

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Woody Allen

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
Oprah Winfrey

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
Rita Rudner

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
Richard M. Nixon

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
Enya

Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up.
Herschel Walker

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
Al Franken

Carpet Translations

carpet in Afrikaans is mat
carpet in Dutch is tapijt, kleed, vloerkleed, karpet
carpet in French is moquette, tapis
carpet in German is Teppich
carpet in Italian is tappeto
carpet in Latin is vestis
carpet in Norwegian is teppe
carpet in Portuguese is tapete
carpet in Spanish is alfombrado, alfombra
carpet in Swedish is matta

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