Bag vs Carpet - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bag and carpet

is that bag is a flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc while carpet is a fabric used as a complete floor covering.

As verbs the difference between bag and carpet

is that bag is to put into a bag while carpet is to lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.

bag

English

(wikipedia bag)

Noun

(en noun)

A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.

(label) A handbag

A suitcase.

A schoolbag, especially a backpack.

One’s preference.

(label) An ugly woman.

(label) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

(label) First, second, or third base.

(label) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.

(label) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.

The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.

A scrotum.

(label) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.

Synonyms

* (flexible container) poke (obsolete), sack, tote * (handbag) handbag, purse (US) * (preference) cup of tea, thing * (ugly woman) dog, hag * (in mathematics) multiset

Hyponyms

* (flexible container) bindle

Verb

(bagg)

To put into a bag.

To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

(label) To furnish or load with a bag.

* Dryden

To bring a woman one met on the street with one.

To laugh uncontrollably.

To criticise sarcastically.

(label) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.

To swell or hang down like a full bag.

To swell with arrogance.

(Chaucer)

To become pregnant.

Derived terms

{{der3, airbag, air bag , bagboy , baggage , bagger , baggy , bag lady , bag lunch , bag of bones , bag of tricks , bag snatcher , beanbag , binbag , carrier bag , clutch bag , dilly bag , dime bag , doggy bag , double bagger , douche bag , dumb as a bag of hammers , face like a bag of spanners , handbag , gladstone bag , goody bag, goodie bag , grab bag , holdall, carryall, tote, tote bag , in the bag , kitbag , let the cat out of the bag , mixed bag , moneybag , overnight bag , paper bag , plastic bag , schoolbag , shopping bag , shoulder bag , sickbag , sleeping bag , teabag , toolbag , windbag}}

Descendants

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Anagrams

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carpet

English

Noun

(en noun) (uncountable and countable)

A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet , which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}

(label) Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:the grassy carpet of this plain

(label) A wrought cover for tables.

*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)

*:Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets.

A woman's pubic hair.

Usage notes

The terms carpet and (m) are often used interchangeably, but various distinctions are drawn. Most often, a rug is loose and covers part of a floor, while a carpet covers most or all of the floor (hence typically square), and may be loose or attached, while a fitted carpet runs wall-to-wall. Another distinction is quality: a rug may be coarser, while a carpet is higher quality and has finished ends. Initially carpet referred primarily to table and wall coverings, today called (m) or (m) – the use of the term for floor coverings dates to the 18th century, following trade with Persia.

Derived terms

* carpetbag * carpet beetle * carpet bombing * carpet burn * carpeting * carpet knight * carpet muncher * carpet weed * flying carpet * magic carpet * on the carpet * call on the carpet

External links

* (wikipedia "carpet")

Verb

(en verb)

To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.

After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.

The builders were carpeting in the living room when Zadie inspected her new house.

To substantially cover something, like a carpet; to blanket something.

Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.

(UK) To reprimand.

* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 428:

Even Colonel Yakov, so recently carpeted by St Petersburg, was reported to be back in the Pamirs.