# carpeting

Pronunciation: US say "KAR-puht-ing" /ˈkɑɹpətɪŋ/; UK say "KAR-pit-ing" /ˈkɑː(ɹ)pɪtɪŋ/

## Noun

1. Floor covering of carpet, or a piece of it, considered especially when being laid down or pulled up.
   - Simple: Soft floor covering that is put down or taken up in a room.
   - _The crew tore out the stained carpeting and replaced it the same day._
   - _Fresh carpeting ran from the front hall to the top of the stairs._
2. Cloth or other material used in making carpets.
   - Simple: The cloth or material used to make carpets.
   - _The factory produces miles of thick carpeting each year._
   - _Weavers selected a coarse carpeting that would hold up under heavy traffic._
4. A severe reprimand or telling-off. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: A strong telling-off when someone has done something wrong.
   - _She received a thorough carpeting from the director over the leaked figures._
   - _After the sloppy report, the junior analyst was in for a carpeting._

## Verb

3. Present participle of carpet. — present participle and gerund of carpet
   - Simple: Present participle of carpet. Use this form for the action happening right now.
   - _The crew is carpeting the office floor before the new tenants arrive._
   - _She kept carpeting room after room until the whole house was done._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/carpeting (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).