Carpet vs Runner - What's the difference?
carpet | runner |
(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.
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, 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:
Agent noun of run; somebody who runs:
# Somebody who moves at a fast pace.
# Somebody who controls or manages (e.g. a system).
#* 1998 June 12th, Daniel Jonathan Kirk (username), tipping competitions'', in aus.legal, ''Usenet :
(slang) A quick escape away from a scene.
A type of soft-soled shoe originally intended for runners, compare trainer; a sneaker.
A part of an apparatus that moves quickly
A mechanical part intended for wheels to run on or to slide against another surface.
A strip of fabric used to decorate a table.
A long, narrow carpet for a high traffic area such as a hall or stairs.
(cricket) A player who runs for a batsman who is too injured to run; he is dressed exactly as the injured batsman, and carries a bat.
(baseball) A player who runs the bases.
(Australian rules football) A person (from one or the other team) who runs out onto the field during the game to take verbal instructions from the coach to the players. A runner mustn't interfere with play, and may have to wear an identifying shirt to make clear his or her purpose on the field.
(slang) A part of a cigarette that is burning unevenly.
(botany) A long stolon sent out by a plant (such as strawberry), in order to root new plantlets.
(climbing) A short sling with a karabiner on either end, used to link the climbing rope to a bolt or other protection such as a nut or friend.
(poker slang) A competitor in a poker tournament.
A restaurant employee responsible for taking food from the kitchens to the tables.
A leaping food fish () of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail.
(sports slang) An employee of a sports agent who tries to recruit possible player clients for the agent.
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As nouns the difference between carpet and runner
is that carpet is a fabric used as a complete floor covering while runner is agent noun of run; somebody who runs.As a verb carpet
is to lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.carpet
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.
runner
English
Noun
(en noun)- The first runner to cross the finish line wins the race.
- at least half of which would be put into the pool for the winner, the rest kept for the runners of the system to cover costs and more than likely make a fair profit.
- He did a runner after robbing the drugstore.
- After the cycle completes, the runner travels back quickly to be in place for the next cycle.
- The red runner makes the table so festive.
- How about we put down a clear runner in the front hall.
- The runner was out at second.
- This week hundreds of NFL agents gathered to hear an honorable man talk about a noble pipedream. It was a discussion about a significant step to end one of the cornerstones of corruption in college football: runners . Not the backs getting their 40 times tested at the scouting combine but the slimeball trolls who work on behalf of agents to help recruit — a generous word — football prospects by illegally giving them cash (or cars or money for family members or rent for a nice house) so the player then signs with the agent upon turning pro.
