What's the difference between carpet and carpetbag?
Carpet
Definition:
(n.) A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables.
(n.) A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.
(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
(2) With Air Sentinels in the bedroom and living room for airborne collections, and a Sample Vac for collections from living room carpet and bedroom mattress, immunochemical quantifications of each were made with various radiometric assays with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
(3) By simple modifications of conditions for protein adsorption on glass we obtained a set of substrata all coated with proteins of ECM (protein carpets) but with different physical properties.
(4) A new carpet piece, Soft Ground (Great Hall), is being woven specially for the echoing double height great hall, Spencer-Churchill's favourite room.
(5) Serial sampling showed a reduction for 6 weeks under conditions where carpets and chairs treated with solvent showed a progressive rise in allergen level.
(6) The dietary efforts are not combined with corresponding efforts in other fields such as tobacco smoking, exposure to carpeting and animals.
(7) "But then a customer pointed out that our carpet was smoking and a chair was beginning to wrinkle in the heat, caused by the concentrated sun coming through the window."
(8) Carpeting of the type commonly used in hospitals imposed a burden upon normal and patient wheelchair users propelling a wheelchair as reflected in increased energy cost per unit of distance traveled.
(9) Vacuuming of carpets showed only a slight reduction in the number of recoverable microorganisms.
(10) But homewares, which Street calls the store chain's "point of fame", are well down as a result of fewer people moving house and therefore not popping in to John Lewis to order big-ticket items such as carpets, curtains and furniture.
(11) Kitchens will be installed, along with new carpets or timber floors.
(12) The red carpets are being unrolled, the paparazzi are installing their stepladders, the dressmakers are rushing their schmutters to the airport – the Cannes film festival is finally upon us.
(13) The French love Malick's artistry and mystery and he continued to play the recluse by not showing up for his press conference or red carpet, although I'm told he has been here, staying at the famed Colombe d'Or in St-Paul-de-Vence and that he did sneak in to watch at least some of his own film's premiere.
(14) April's blood was found in the bathroom and hall but, most importantly, on the underside of the carpet in front of the wood burner in the living room.
(15) Carpeted floors accumulated more dust, proteins and allergens per unit area than smooth floors.
(16) In the days that followed, thousands of flowers carpeted Martin Place, left by mourners and well-wishers.
(17) They were also photographed holding up signs reading "#soma" on the red carpet prior to the Winter Sleep premiere.
(18) Speaking on the red carpet before the performance, Gaga said she was proud to be singing songs from a film that “changed music forever and changed the film industry”.
(19) Pitch A mix of hard-edged content – rap freestyles delivered straight to camera by attitude-heavy grime artists – and glitzier material: red-carpet reporting from movie premieres, backstage interviews with popstars and high-profile music videos.
(20) Former president Joyce Banda published a blistering press release in 2013 saying the singer “wants Malawi to be forever chained to the obligation of gratitude” for adopting children from the country, and excoriating her for expecting the government to roll out “a red carpet and blast the 21-gun salute” in honour of her visits.
Carpetbag
Definition:
(n.) A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite suffering from accusations of carpetbagging – he moved to New Hampshire in an attempt to get back to Washington two years after he lost his bid to be re-elected to his US Senate seat representing Massachusetts – Brown is polling within a percentage point of Shaheen less than 24 hours before election day, according to a RealClearPolitics average .
(2) Next May every candidate from every party will tout whatever personal connection to the constituency they can muster, and if possible denounce rivals as carpetbagging outsiders.
(3) It was a gift for his regional opponents, who call him a carpetbagging Paris opportunist with no real local ties.
(4) It has also, of course, provided a handy distraction from the carpetbagging claims.
(5) There were no tears in his post-match speech as there had been in defeat by Roger Federer in last year's final, just a genuinely affectionate moment of communion with a Centre Court augmented by an A-List roster of carpetbagging VIPs, among them David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Alex Salmond waving a comically vast – and strictly non-U in the royal box – saltire.