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carpeting

kor puh ting

  • n  floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)
  • v  form a carpet-like cover (over)
  • v  cover completely, as if with a carpet
  • v  cover with a carpet

  • The evening of stand-up comedy is held in a room furnished for the AEA's more traditional meetings: ugly carpeting, stiff conference-room chairs and a screen for PowerPoint .
  • Inside, the walls are lined with a velveteen fabric, the floor is covered in shag carpeting and there's minimal sound equipment just a dated computer, two keyboards, a .
  • Now she and other parents are working with the company to eliminate chemical-ridden carpeting and pesticides at their children's school and introduce composting and recycling .
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  • Stephen King in New York Times
    The question is, how much time and energy do I want to spend chasing these guys,Stephen King wrote in an e-mail message. "And to what end? My sense is that most of them live in basements floored with carpeting remnants, living on Funions...
  • Fergie Black Eyed Peas in St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    After this, I'm going to meet with carpeting people,says Ferguson, known to the world as Fergie. "My stepdad is going to do carpeting for the theater room, and right now we've got house renovations going on at same time. So I'll go to the...
  • Nick Clegg in 4ni.co.uk
    Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesperson Nick Clegg said: "This report makes it clear that Tony Blair's twin-track approach of demonising young people and carpeting the country with Asbos has reached its limit. Asbos cannot be effective if they...

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