different between carpet vs film

English

Etymology

From late Middle English carpete, from Old French carpite, from Medieval Latin carpita/Italian carpita, the past participle of Latin carpere (“to pluck”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??(?)p?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??p?t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)p?t

Noun

carpet (countable and uncountable, plural carpets)

1. A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

   • A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
2. (figuratively) Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.
   • 2009, Loren Long, ?Phil Bildner, Magic in the Outfield (page 47)

     Way deep in left field, where the carpet of green sloped upward to a terrace and greeted the thick line of trees, he reached out his glove.

3. Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae
4. (obsolete) A wrought cover for tables.

   • Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets.

5. (slang, vulgar) A woman's pubic hair.

Usage notes

The terms carpet and rug are often used interchangeably, but various distinctions are drawn. Most often, a rug is loose and covers part of a floor, while a carpet covers most or all of the floor, and may be loose or attached, while a fitted carpet runs wall-to-wall.

Initially carpet referred primarily to table and wall coverings, today called tablecloth or tapestry – the use of the term for floor coverings dates to the 18th century, following trade with Persia.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (k?petto)

Translations

Further reading

• carpet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

carpet (third-person singular simple present carpets, present participle carpeting, simple past and past participle carpeted)

1. To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.

2. (transitive) To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.
   • 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)[2]

     The town of Tompasobaru, a six-hour drive from Tangkoko, is known for the fragrant cloves that carpet the front yards of homes, drying on tarps in the sun. But in the town’s open market, the air hung heavy with the metallic smell of the butcher’s wares.

3. (Britain) To reprimand.
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 428:

     Even Colonel Yakov, so recently carpeted by St Petersburg, was reported to be back in the Pamirs.

   • 1992 June 24, Edwina Currie, Diary:

     At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...'
     
     She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking.
     
     As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.

Translations

Anagrams

• cet. par., peract, preact

Latin

Verb

carpet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of carp?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lm/, [f??m]
  • Rhymes: -?lm
• (North East England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [?f?lm?], [?f?l?m]

Etymology

From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminj? (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian pl?v? (“membrane, scab”), Russian ?????? (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek ????? (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. Sense of a thin coat of something is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid.

Noun

film (countable and uncountable, plural films)

1. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
2. (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
3. A movie.
4. (film, uncountable) Cinema; movies as a group.
5. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.

Synonyms

• (motion picture): movie

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

film (third-person singular simple present films, present participle filming, simple past and past participle filmed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.

2. (transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.

Translations

Anagrams

• MILF, milf

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch film, from English film, or borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lm/

Noun

film (plural films)

1. film

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

Noun

film m (indefinite plural filma, definite singular filmi, definite plural filmat)

1. film
2. movie

Declension

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [film]

Noun

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filml?r)

1. film, movie

Declension

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?film/

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. film (a movie)

   Synonym: pel·lícula

Related terms

• filmar
• fílmic

Further reading

• “film” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

film

1. film (clarification of this definition is needed)

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lm/

Noun

film m inan

1. (photography) film
2. movie, film, motion picture

Declension

Derived terms

• filmovat
• filma?

Further reading

• film in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• film in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/, [?film]
• Rhymes: -ilm

Noun

film c (singular definite filmen, plural indefinite film)

1. a movie, a film, motion picture
2. film; a thin layer
3. plural indefinite of film

Inflection

Derived terms

• filme
  • filmning
• filmfotograf
• filmhold
• filmproduktion
• filmskole

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?l?m/, /f?lm/
• Rhymes: -?lm, -?l?m

Noun

film m (plural films, diminutive filmpje n)

1. film, movie

Derived terms

• filmproducent
• filmregisseur
• speelfilm
• tekenfilm
• verfilmen

Estonian

Etymology

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Noun

film (genitive filmi, partitive filmi)

1. movie

Declension

Derived terms

• filmindus
• filmilint
• värvifilm

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. movie, film

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Albanian: film
• ? Romanian: film
• ? Turkish: film

Further reading

• “film” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?film]
• Hyphenation: film
• Rhymes: -ilm

Noun

film (plural filmek)

1. (photography) film (a medium used to capture images in a camera)
2. film, movie, motion picture, picture (a recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion)
3. film, cinematic art, cinema, cinematography (the art of making films and movies)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• film in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From earlier pilem, from Dutch film, from English film.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): [?f?lm]
• (Betawi) IPA^(key): /?f?l(?)m/, /?pel?m/

Noun

film (first-person possessive filmku, second-person possessive filmmu, third-person possessive filmnya)

1. film,
   1. a thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
   2. (photography) a medium used to capture images in a camera.
   3. a movie, a motion picture, a recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion.

Alternative forms

• filem (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Affixed terms

Further reading

• “film” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From English film.

Noun

film m (invariable)

1. film, movie

   Synonym: pellicola

Derived terms

See also

• cinema

Further reading

• film in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. (Jersey) movie, film

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmer, definite plural filmene)

1. a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
2. a film (thin material, layer or coating)
3. a film, movie (cinematic production)

Derived terms

Related terms

• filme

Verb

film

1. imperative of filme

References

• “film” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmar, definite plural filmane)

1. a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
2. a film (thin material, layer or coating)
3. a film, movie (cinematic production)

Derived terms

References

• “film” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?ilm/

Noun

film m inan (diminutive filmik)

1. film, movie, motion picture
2. film (medium used to capture images in a camera)

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) filmografia, filmowiec
• (adjectives) filmowy, filmograficzny

Further reading

• film in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

film m (plural filmes)

1. Superseded spelling of filme.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French film, German Film, from English film.

Noun

film n (plural filme)

1. movie, film

Declension

References

• Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From English film, from Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminj? (“thin skin, membrane”), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?filim/

Noun

film m (genitive singular film, plural filmichean)

1. film, movie

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

f?lm m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. film (photography)
2. film (motion picture)

Declension

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi?m/

Noun

film m (genitive singular filmu, nominative plural filmy, genitive plural filmov, declension pattern of dub)

1. photographic film
2. movie, motion picture

Declension

Derived terms

• filmár
• filmova?
• filmový
• filmovo
• filmík

Further reading

• film in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Etymology

From English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?film/, [?film]

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. film, motion picture

Further reading

• “film” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

film c

1. film; a thin layer
2. film; medium used to capture images in a camera
3. a movie

Declension

Related terms

References

• film in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/
• IPA^(key): /filim/ (colloquial)

Noun

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmler)

1. a medium used to capture images in a camera
2. a movie

Declension

Uzbek

Etymology

From Russian ????? (fil?m), from English film.

Noun

film (plural filmlar)

1. film, movie, motion picture

   Synonyms: kino, kinofilm, kartina

Declension

Related terms

• filmoskop
• filmoteka