Floormat vs Carpet - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between floormat and carpet

is that floormat is a mat that is laid on the floor while 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.

floormat

English

Noun

(en noun)

A mat that is laid on the floor.

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.

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, 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.