Mantle vs Carpet - What's the difference?

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Mantle is a related term of carpet.

As a proper noun mantle

is .

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.

mantle

English

(wikipedia mantle)

Noun

(en noun)

A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.

(figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.

At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.

The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.

(figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare) (King Lear)

the green mantle of the standing pool

(zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.

* 1990 , Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals , page 71 (where there is an illustration):

Before copulation in Loligo'', the male swims beside and slightly below about his potential mate and flashes his chromatophores. He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle'''. He then reaches into his ' mantle with his hectocotylus and picks up several spermatophores from his penis.

(zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

The zone of hot gases around a flame; the gauzy incandescent covering of a gas lamp.

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

(Raymond)

A penstock for a water wheel.

(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.

(geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.

A fireplace shelf;

(heraldry) A mantling.

Derived terms

* assume the mantle * gas mantle * mantlepiece * mantle-tree * upper mantle

Verb

(mantl)

To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.

(Shakespeare)

To become covered or concealed.

(of face, cheeks) To flush.

* 1913 ,

The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.

External links

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Anagrams

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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.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, 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.