1. Floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)
   "The new carpet brightened up the living room";
   - rug, carpeting
    
2. A natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet
   "a carpet of flowers"; "the larvae of some moths spin a web that resembles a carpet"

1. Cover with a carpet
   "carpet the floors of the house"
    
2. Cover completely, as if with a carpet
   "flowers carpeted the meadows"
    
3. Form a carpet-like cover (over)
   "Flowers carpeted the hillside"
    
4. [Brit, informal] Censure severely or angrily
   "The manager called the employee on the carpet for his repeated tardiness";
   - call on the carpet [US, informal], take to task, rebuke, rag [informal], trounce, lecture, reprimand, jaw [informal], dress down [informal], call down [informal], scold, chide, berate, bawl out [informal], chew out [N. Amer, informal], chew up [N. Amer, informal], have words, lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer, informal], wig [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: carpeted, carpeting, carpets

Type of: cover, criticise [Brit], criticize, damn [informal], floor cover, floor covering, furnishing, knock [informal], natural object, pick apart, spread over

Encyclopedia: Carpet