Carpet vs Tapestry - What's the difference?
carpet | tapestry |
(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:
A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 (by extension) Anything with variegated or complex details.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=January-February
, author=Nancy Langston
, title=The Fraught History of a Watery World
, volume=101, issue=1, page=59
, magazine=(American Scientist)
(intransitive) To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.
* {{quote-book, year=1833, author=Adolphus Slade, title=Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c.
, passage=We had run above twenty miles when the sun set, carpeting the sea, and tapestrying the sky with a rare unison of delicate green and golden hues
* {{quote-book, year=1854, date=September 13, author=, title=English Note-Books
, passage=The banqueting-hall, all open to the sky, and with thick curtains of ivy tapestrying the walls, and grass and weeds growing on the arches that overpass it, is indescribably beautiful.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Israel Zangwill, title=The Cockpit: Romantic Drama in Three Acts
, passage=I present Bosnavina to its Duchess, I kiss the hem of her Majesty's robe and will tapestry her Palace with conquered flags.}}
As nouns the difference between carpet and tapestry
is that carpet is a fabric used as a complete floor covering while tapestry is a heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.As verbs the difference between carpet and tapestry
is that carpet is to lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area while tapestry is to decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.carpet
English
Noun
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.}}
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.
tapestry
English
Noun
(tapestries)citation, passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry -hung wall behind.}}
citation, passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}
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