English主要词典
carpeting
Universal Words
noun
1 [U] carpets in general or the material used for carpets:
new offices with wall-to-wall carpeting * (AmE) We need new carpeting (= a new carpet) in the living room.
2 [C] (BrE, informal) an act of speaking angrily to sb because they have done sth wrong:
The boss gave him a severe carpeting.
