carpet
US: /ˈkɑɹpət/
English Vietnamese dictionary
carpet /'kɑ:pit/
- danh từ
- tấm thảm
- to lay a carpet: trải thảm
- thảm (cỏ, hoa, rêu...)
- to be on the carpet
- được đem ra thảo luận, bàn cãi
- bị mắng, bị quở trách
- to walk the carpet
- bị mắng, bị quở trách
- tấm thảm
- ngoại động từ
- trải thảm
- (thông tục) lôi (người làm...) ra mắng mỏ; gọi lên mắng
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
1 [U] thick woollen or artificial fabric for covering floors or stairs: a roll of carpet
2 [C] a piece of carpet used as a floor covering, especially when shaped to fit a room: to lay a carpet + a bedroom carpet + (BrE) We have fitted carpets (= carpets from wall to wall) in our house.
See also -
3 [C] ~ (of sth) (written) a thick layer of sth on the ground: a carpet of snow
Idioms: (be / get called) on the carpet (informal, especially AmE) called to see sb in authority because you have done sth wrong: I got called on the carpet for being late.
more at SWEEP v.
+ verb [VN] [usually passive]
1 to cover the floor of a room with a carpet: The hall was carpeted in blue.
2 ~ sth (with / in sth) (written) to be cover sth with a thick layer of sth: The forest floor was carpeted with wild flowers.
3 (informal, especially BrE) to speak angrily to sb because they have done sth wrong
Synonym: REPRIMAND
Senior officials were carpeted for leaking information to the press.
Collocation dictionary
1 material for covering floors
ADJ.
deep-pile, soft, thick | threadbare, worn | patterned, plain | woven | oriental, Persian | fitted, wall-to-wall | flying, magic | red
(figurative) I didn't expect to get the red carpet treatment (= be treated like an important person).
QUANT.
roll
VERB + CARPET
make, weave | fit, lay
I'm having the carpets fitted today.
| roll back/up, take up | beat
CARPET + NOUN
design | tile
The grey vinyl floor gave way to carpet tiles.
| fitter | cleaner, sweeper
PREP.
on a/the ~
The cat curled up on the carpet.
2 thick layer of sth that covers the ground
ADJ.
deep, thick
VERB + CARPET
form
The leaves formed a carpet under the trees.
PREP.
~ of
a deep carpet of snow
Concise English dictionary
carpets|carpeted|carpeting'kɑːpɪt
noun
+floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)
verb
+form a carpet-like cover (over)
+cover completely, as if with a carpet
+cover with a carpet
