different between rug vs mattress

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain; probably of North Germanic origin, compare dialectal Norwegian rugga (“coarse coverlet”), Swedish rugg (“rough entangled hair”), from Old Norse r?gg (“shagginess; tuft”), from Proto-Germanic *raww? (“long wool”), related to English rag and rough.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?g, IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

rug (plural rugs)

1. A partial covering for a floor. [1624]
2. (Britain, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket. [1591]
   • 1855, William Howitt, A Boy?s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert?s Note-Book, page 254,

     They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.

   • 1906 July 27, Government Gazette of Western Australia, page 2297,

     Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug, and, in winter time, not less than one additional rug.

   • 1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia, Volume 22, page 181,

     My own son had a bunny rug of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny rug to suck his finger with.?

   • 1958, Arthur Hailey, John Castle. Runway Zero-Eight. Bantham Books

     She tucked in a rug round the woman. “How’s that?” The woman nodded gratefully.

   • 1997, Alan Sharpe, Vivien Encel, Murder!: 25 True Australian Crimes, page 22,

     He brought with him a rug and a sheet, and lay down by the fire.

3. (historical, now rare) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing. [1547]

   • They spin the choicest rug in Ireland. A friend of mine […] repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford rugs.

4. (historical, now rare) A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze. [1577]
5. (obsolete, rare) A person wearing a rug. [1627]
6. A cloth covering for a horse. [1790]
7. (obsolete, rare) A dense layer of natural vegetation that precludes the growth of crops. [1792]
8. (slang) The female pubic hair. [1893]
9. A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
10. (slang) A wig; a hairpiece. [1940]
11. (colloquial) A dense growth of chest hair. [1954]

Usage notes

• (partial floor covering): The terms rug and carpet are not precise synonyms: a rug covers part of the floor; a carpet covers most or a large area of the floor; a fitted carpet runs wall-to-wall.

Synonyms

• (small carpet): carpet, mat
• (wig): toupee, wig

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rug (third-person singular simple present rugs, present participle rugging, simple past and past participle rugged)

1. (transitive) To cover with a rug.
   • 1966, Margaret I. Clarke, Care of the Horse and Pony (page 45)

     It stands to reason that because of the difference in climate the necessity for rugging a horse in Australia would vary considerably from that in cold countries like England […]

2. (Scotland) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.

Derived terms

• rug up

Adjective

rug (comparative more rug, superlative most rug)

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) snug; cosy

Further reading

• rug in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rug in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• rug at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• GRU, GUR

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch rug.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rœ?/

Noun

rug (plural rûe or rûens, diminutive ruggie)

1. (plural chiefly rûe) back (rear of the body)
2. (plural chiefly rûens) hill; ridge

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin rubus. Compare Romanian rug.

Alternative forms

• rugu, arug, arugu

Noun

rug m (plural rudz)

1. wild rose, raspberry bush, bramble bush

Synonyms

• pilivuri, zigrã, mãcesh, bubzel

Etymology 2

Probably a semi-learned term or borrowing from Latin rogus, as with its Romanian cognate rug (or modeled after it). Less likely inherited.

Noun

rug m (plural rudz)

1. funeral pyre

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish rugh, from Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrug?yo-. Compare Norwegian Bokmål rug, Swedish råg, Icelandic rúgur, Dutch rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, English rye.

Noun

rug c (singular definite rugen, not used in plural form)

1. rye (Secale cereale)

Verb

rug

1. imperative of ruge

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rugge, from Old Dutch ruggi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?x/
• Rhymes: -?x
• Hyphenation: rug

Noun

rug m (plural ruggen, diminutive ruggetje n or rugje n)

1. back, backside
2. (geology) ridge
3. (Netherlands) thousand euro

Derived terms

• heuvelrug
• rugborstel
• rugklacht
• rugpijn
• rugslag
• rugtas
• rugvin
• rugzak

Descendants

• Afrikaans: rug

Elfdalian

Noun

rug m

1. rye (Secale cereale)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Faroese

Noun

rug

1. accusative singular indefinite of rugur

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ·ruc, prototonic form of ro·ucc, perfect tense of beirid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????]

Verb

rug

1. past analytic of beir

Further reading

• "rug" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “rug” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “rug” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Manx

Etymology

From ro·uccai, suppletive augmented form of beirid.

Verb

rug (verbal noun ruggal, past participle ruggit)

1. to bear (give birth to)

Synonyms

• behr
• ymmyrk

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrug?yo-. Compare Danish rug, Swedish råg, Icelandic rúgur, Dutch rogge, German Roggen, English rye.

Noun

rug m (definite singular rugen)

1. rye (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)

Derived terms

• rugbrød

References

• “rug” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrug?yo-. Compare Danish rug, Swedish råg, Icelandic rúgur, Dutch rogge, German Roggen, English rye.

Noun

rug m (definite singular rugen)

1. rye (as above)

Derived terms

• rugbrød

References

• “rug” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ruk/

Noun

rug f

1. genitive plural of ruga

Further reading

• rug in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin rogus, probably borrowed in the 19th century or semi-learned. The linguists Candrea and Tiktin believed it to be inherited.

Noun

rug n (plural ruguri)

1. pyre

Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin rubus (“bramble, briar”), from Proto-Italic *wruðos, from Proto-Indo-European *wr?d?o- (“sweetbriar”). Compare Italian rovo, dialectal rogo. For the sound shift of Latin -b- to -g- in Romanian, compare neg, negura.

Noun

rug m (plural rugi)

1. bramble
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Declension

Synonyms

• m?ce?

Derived terms

• ruget

References

• rug in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?uk/

Verb

rug

1. past tense of beir

English

Etymology

From Middle English materas, from Old French, from Arabic ???????? (ma?ra?, “place where something is thrown”), from ??????? (?ara?a, “to throw”). Compare divan, from Persian via Turkish (both of Middle Eastern origin, due to the local custom of lying on padding on floor being foreign to Europeans).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæt??s/

Noun

mattress (plural mattresses)

1. A pad on which a person can recline and sleep, usually having an inner section of coiled springs covered with foam or other cushioning material then enclosed with cloth fabric.
2. A form of retaining wall used to support foundations or an embankment

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• bottom sheet
• futon

Verb

mattress (third-person singular simple present mattresses, present participle mattressing, simple past and past participle mattressed)

1. (transitive) To cover with a thick layer, like a mattress; to blanket.
   • 1997, Andrew R. M. Patterson, A planet through a field of stars (page 123)

     A comfortable litter of pine needles had mattressed the ground and spreading branches had been a canopy overhead.

Anagrams

• smart set, smartest, smatters