Carpet vs Tole - What's the difference?
carpet | tole |
(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:
(uncountable) A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded
(uncommon) tola (unit of mass)
To entice.
* 1693 , '', 1797, ''The works of John Locke Esq , Volume III,
To allure.
To attract.
As nouns the difference between carpet and tole
is that carpet is a fabric used as a complete floor covering while tole is sheet metal or tole can be .As a verb carpet
is to lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.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.
tole
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) stem *tyll, related to .Alternative forms
* (Etymology 3)Verb
- It is often necessary to tole a big stag, to induce him to leave the hind ...
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- And thus the young Soldier is to be train’d on to the Warfare of Life ; wherein Care is to be taken that more things be not repre?ented as dangerous than really are ?o ; and then, that whatever you ob?erve him to be more frighted at than he ?hould, you be ?ure to tole him on to by in?en?ible Degrees, till he at la?t, quitting his Fears, ma?ters the Difficulty, and comes off with Applau?e.