📖 Определения и значения для слова carpet
📒 a piece of thick woven material made of wool, etc., used to cover the floor of a room or stairs; the material used for carpets
- He spent the morning laying the new carpet.
- a bedroom carpet
- (British English) We have fitted carpets (= carpets from wall to wall) in our house.
📒 a thick layer of something on the ground
- a carpet of snow
📒 called to see somebody in authority because you have done something wrong
- I got called on the carpet for being late.
📒 to try to stop people from finding out about something wrong, illegal, embarrassing, etc. that has happened or that you have done
- An earlier report, implicating the government, had been conveniently swept under the carpet.