Carpet vs Chicken - What's the difference?
carpet | chicken |
(en noun) (uncountable and countable)
A fabric used as a complete floor covering.
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*: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 (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.
To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.
To substantially cover something, like a carpet; to blanket something.
(UK) To reprimand.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 428:
(countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus , especially when young
(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
(countable, slang) A coward.
(countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. Compare chickenhawk
(countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
* 1887 , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet , III:
* Jonathan Swift
A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (, the loser.)
The game of dare.
To avoid as a result of fear.
To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.
As a noun carpet
is a fabric used as a complete floor covering.As a verb carpet
is to lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.As a proper noun chicken is
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English
Noun
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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 carpetExternal links
* (wikipedia "carpet")Verb
(en verb)- After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.
- The builders were carpeting in the living room when Zadie inspected her new house.
- Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.
- Even Colonel Yakov, so recently carpeted by St Petersburg, was reported to be back in the Pamirs.
chicken
English
(wikipedia chicken) (Gallus gallus) (Gallus gallus)Noun
- "This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken ."
- Stella is no chicken .
- Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.