carpet

«carpet» in Mova's school dictionary: a thick cloth that covers a floor — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (carpet, carpets); verb (carpet, carpets, carpeted, carpeting)

meaning for a pupil

1) A carpet is a thick cloth that covers a floor. tree →

2) A carpet of something is a thick layer on the ground: «a carpet of leaves». tree →

3) To carpet a room is to cover its floor with carpet. tree →

sense in the lessons

covering a floor: area, cost per square unit; phrases «red carpet» (special welcome), «magic carpet», «sweep under the carpet» (hide a problem)

examples

• The room needs a carpet 12 ft by 15 ft. tree →
• Carpet costs 3 dollars a square foot. tree →
• How much carpet for a 10 m by 4 m floor? tree →
• The carpet covers 80 square feet. tree →
• Wipe your feet before you walk on the carpet. tree →
• A carpet of snow covered the yard. tree →
• The stars walked the red carpet. tree →
• Aladdin flew on a magic carpet. tree →
• We sat on the carpet for story time. tree →
• Don't sweep the problem under the carpet. tree →
• Then she brought a little carpet, and spread it upon the floor. tree →

note

Carpet means area (length × width); cost = area × price per square unit. Trap: not the perimeter. A carpet covers a whole floor; a rug covers part of it.

In the corpora

• A vet gives pets flea treatment, and people vacuum carpets and wash pet beds.
• Broken glass and china pieces are sharp and can be hidden in carpets or under furniture for days.
• A wet towel left on the floor stays damp, and damp carpet and cloth start to smell and can grow mould.
• Her dad showed her the console just needed space around it for air, and they moved it off the carpet.
• On his birthday it crawled across the carpet and fell over.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «carpet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.