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Definition: Carpeting |
CarpetingNoun1. Floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "carpeting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Industry | A collective term for carpets and other manufactured fibrous floor-coverings. The back may be covered by a supplementary coating of a bonding or cushioning material. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CarpetingSynonyms: carpet (n), rug (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: carpeted (industry). |
Crosswords: Carpeting |
| English words defined with "carpeting": Ajuga pyramidalis, Ajuga reptans ♦ carpet loom, carpeted, Corticine, creeping bugle ♦ Kidderminster ♦ pyramid bugle ♦ red carpet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "carpeting": AUTOMATIC-DOOR MECHANIC ♦ cabin furnishings installer, CARPET CUTTER, CARPET CUTTER I, CARPET LAYER, CARPET SEWER, CARPET WEAVER, JACQUARD LOOM, CARPET-LAYER HELPER, CARPET-LOOM FIXER, cloth picker, COATER, COATER HELPER, combining-machine operator, cut order hand ♦ fringe-binder operator ♦ INSTALLER, INTERIOR ASSEMBLIES ♦ knot picker, cloth ♦ LAMINATING-MACHINE OPERATOR, LATEXER, leno sewer ♦ package provision, PILE WIRES ♦ rug cutter ♦ sewing-machine operator, carpet and rugs, slub picker, string picker ♦ ticket stamper, TICKETER, TUFTING-MACHINE OPERATOR, SINGLE-NEEDLE. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | In fact, if you got a moment, it's a twelve-storey crisis with a magnificent entrance hall, carpeting throughout, 24-hour portage, and an enormous sign on the roof, saying 'This Is a Large Crisis'. (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | There were orchards, heavy leafed in their prime, and vineyards with the long green crawlers carpeting the ground between the rows. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Business | Wall-to-wall carpeting is much more popular in Germany than are rugs and carpets. (references) | |
Berber and sisel carpeting, once used only in commercial applications, have made major inroads in the residential marketplace. (references) | ||
Carpeting is the largest segment of the U.S. floor covering market, which also includes tile and hardwood floors, accounting for over 70% of the total market. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Carpeting" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.41% of the time. "Carpeting" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75.41% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 24.59% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
carpeting | 798 | boat carpeting | 13 |
outdoor carpeting | 67 | carpeting for car | 11 |
indoor outdoor carpeting | 52 | bathroom carpeting | 11 |
berber carpeting | 41 | sisal carpeting | 10 |
mohawk carpeting | 41 | home carpeting | 10 |
shaw carpeting | 34 | install carpeting | 9 |
bc carpeting discount discount flooring road scott surrey | 27 | basement carpeting | 9 |
discount carpeting | 25 | buy carpeting | 8 |
empire carpeting | 25 | residential carpeting | 8 |
wall to wall carpeting | 24 | carpeting price | 8 |
carpeting stairs | 22 | automobile carpeting | 8 |
commercial carpeting | 22 | wool carpeting | 8 |
wholesale carpeting | 19 | carpeting cost | 8 |
marine carpeting | 18 | carpeting dupont | 6 |
auto carpeting | 16 | contract carpeting | 6 |
carpeting florida in | 15 | karastan carpeting | 6 |
carpeting in miami | 15 | laura ashley carpeting | 6 |
carpeting distributor | 14 | truck carpeting | 5 |
shag carpeting | 14 | buying carpeting | 5 |
automotive carpeting | 14 | installing carpeting | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "carpeting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qilima, material qilimash. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مواد صنع السجاد, سجاد (carper, hangings, mat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | настилка от килими, материя за килими. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 地毯料. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | materiál na koberce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | loeber (carpeting for corridors or passages, grinding runner, runner), filttaeppe (felt carpet, felt carpeting), entreloeber (carpeting for corridors or passages). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vilttapijt (felt carpet, felt carpeting), loper (carpeting for corridors or passages, courier, fall, keel, leak, run, runner, run-out, sag, shoe plate, skeleton key, store, store pig, young pig), gangloper (carpeting for corridors or passages). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | substance de fabrication de tapis, moquette (carpet, pile carpet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | teppichstoff, teppiche (carpets, rugs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υλικό για χαλιά, εφαρμογή μοκετών. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ארי' שטיחים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | dorgálás (admonition, dressing down, rating, reprimand, talking to, ticking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tappeto di feltro (felt carpet, felt carpeting), guida delle passatoie (carpeting for corridors or passages). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 敷物 (carpet, cushion, floorcloth, footcloth, matting, rug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しきもの (carpet, cushion, floorcloth, footcloth, matting, rug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arpetingcay tapete de feltro (felt carpet, felt carpeting), passadeira (carpeting for corridors or passages, crosswalk, drawing, laniard, lanyard, zebra crossing). (various references) ковровая ткань, настилка ковров. (various references) zastiranje tepihom. (various references) tejido de alfombra. (various references) mattbeläggning. (various references) halı malzemesi. (various references) килимова тканина, настилання килимів. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "carpeting": carpetings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "carpeting": becarpeting, recarpeting. (additional references) | |
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"Carpeting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: capting, carpenting, carpetings, parapenting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "carpeting" (pronounced kÄ"rputing) |
| 5 | -p u t i ng | trumpeting. |
| 4 | -u t i ng | accrediting, attributing, auditing, balloting, blanketing, budgeting, cohabiting, crediting, depositing, dieting, discrediting, dispiriting, disquieting, editing, eliciting, exhibiting, exiting, ferreting, fidgeting, forfeiting, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, limiting, marketing, misinterpreting, orbiting, picketing, piloting, pirating, plummeting, pocketing, profiting, prohibiting, quieting, ratcheting, reinterpreting, remarketing, revisiting, rioting, riveting, rocketing, skyrocketing, soliciting, targeting, telemarketing, ticketing, visiting, vomiting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accosting, accounting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, disputing, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, Fetting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, pinpointing, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, prognosticating, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revolting, rewriting, roasting, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: preacting. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: argentic, capering, catering, creating, reacting, retaping, tapering. | |
-2 letters: anergic, cantrip, caprine, carping, carting, ceratin, certain, cigaret, craping, crating, creatin, creping, granite, gratine, ingrate, painter, paretic, parting, peacing, pertain, picante, picrate, prating, reaping, repaint, tacrine, tangier, tearing, tracing, trepang. | |
-3 letters: acetin, acting, aigret, apneic, arcing, argent, arpent, cagier, canter, caring, carnet, carnie, carpet, catnip. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: carpetings, chaptering, precasting, repatching. | |
+2 letters: becarpeting, cooperating, crepitating, deprecating, imprecating, outcapering, paragenetic, percolating, praelecting, predicating, preenacting, procreating, reaccepting, recapturing, recarpeting, replicating. | |
+3 letters: appreciating, apprenticing, carpentering, copartnering, depreciating, ethnographic, interspacing, organoleptic, outpreaching, paramagnetic, recuperating, stenographic. | |
+4 letters: anthropogenic, carpetbagging, cinematograph, decrepitating, deprecatingly, expectorating, hectographing, letterspacing, precautioning, precipitating, prevaricating, prognosticate, reciprocating, reduplicating, saprogenicity, spermatogenic, transpiercing. | |
+5 letters: cinematographs, cinematography, compartmenting, depreciatingly, electroplating, ethnographical, intercomparing, letterspacings, magnetospheric, prefabricating, prognosticated, prognosticates, recapitalizing, recapitulating, scintigraphies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 70 65 74 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. .--. . - .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01110000 01100101 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r p e t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0070 0065 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376784827186758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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