{
    "term": "carpet",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "image": "data/images/be/bedroom.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a piece of thick woven material made of wool, etc., used to cover the floor of a room or stairs; the material used for carpets",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He spent the morning **laying the** new **carpet**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a bedroom carpet"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have **fitted carpets** *(= carpets from wall to wall)* in our house."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a roll of carpet"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm having the carpets fitted today."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cat curled up on the carpet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The grey vinyl floor gave way to carpet tiles."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Houses and homes"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["deep-pile", "lush", "plush"],
                "… of carpet": ["roll"],
                "verb + carpet": ["make", "weave", "fit"],
                "carpet + noun": ["design", "runner", "tile"],
                "preposition": ["on a/​the carpet"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a thick layer of something on the ground",
            "sensetop": "carpet (of something)",
            "labels": "(literary)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a carpet of snow"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["deep", "thick", "lush"],
                "verb + carpet": ["form"],
                "preposition": ["carpet of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "called to see somebody in authority because you have done something wrong",
            "labels": "(informal, especially North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I got called on the carpet for being late."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to try to stop people from finding out about something wrong, illegal, embarrassing, etc. that has happened or that you have done",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "An earlier report, implicating the government, had been conveniently swept under the carpet."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːpɪt/",
                "audio": "ca/carpet/carpet__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːrpɪt/",
                "audio": "ca/carpet/carpet__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (denoting a thick fabric used as a cover for a table or bed): from Old French carpite or medieval Latin carpita, from obsolete Italian carpita ‘woollen counterpane’, based on Latin carpere ‘pluck, pull to pieces’."
}