What's the difference between carpet and kidderminster?
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.
Kidderminster
Definition:
(n.) A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new Worcester facilities will be better and safer than the old Kidderminster hospital.
(2) The ambulance drove past Kidderminster's closed A&E on a 50 minute journey to Worcester, where Mr Jones was pronounced dead after 20 minutes.
(3) "It was intended to down grade Kidderminster when the new Worcester hospital comes on-stream in 2002.
(4) When Kidderminster College decided to seek a merger in the spring of 2013, it was in a sound financial position.
(5) David Collins Kidderminster, Worcestershire • I have always found that the culprit in a TV murder mystery ( Letters, 7 August ) is invariably the character who says, “How can I help you, Inspector?” They are normally pouring tea at the time.
(6) Dobson says that Kidderminster has similarly gained from pooling resources.
(7) Every politician has learned the lesson of the Kidderminster effect, when a local hospital consultant swept to victory in Wyre Forest in the 2001 general election, in defence of the A&E department at his hospital.
(8) "But by announcing that Kidderminster was virtually going to be turned into a cottage hospital, that led to a crisis in staffing.
(9) Rufus Norris on Trevor Argent I met Trev when I joined his decorating team on a block of flats in Kidderminster, probably in 1984.
(10) Last September, Kidderminster's accident and emergency facilities were downgraded to a minor injuries unit.
(11) Kidderminster had one of the smallest incomes of general further education colleges in the country, before its merger with Newcastle College Group (NCG).
(12) Back in Wyre Forest, Clive Joyce, editor of the local paper, notes that complaints from readers about the NHS have mushroomed since Kidderminster's A&E department closed.
(13) He found himself in the Worcestershire town of Kidderminster and attended a community church where another experience of an attempted gay conversion began.
(14) In order to assess support for this peaceful but possibly effective protest, interested readers should write to me at 11 Church Walk, Kidderminster DY11 6XY or taylorr@rtact.freeserve.co.uk.
(15) "You're ... you're ... that butcher from Kidderminster".
(16) In February that decision had fatal consequences when a pensioner, John Jones, who lived five minutes from Kidderminster hospital, had a heart attack.
(17) But while the loss of services at Kidderminster has made for politics with instant appeal, not all the facts stack up on Dr Taylor's side.
(18) The MP, a junior minister in the Lord Chancellor's department, whose wife practises as a GP locally, accuses Health Concern of distorting the facts to whip up alarm among the voters of Kidderminster.
(19) Mr Lock insists: "The general election, whenever it comes, is not going to be a referendum on Kidderminster hospital.
(20) At the start of October, the 35-year-old mother from Kidderminster was broke.