"carpeting" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a covering of thick fabric made to look like a carpet, usually laid over a floor. For example: "The new carpeting in the living room really brings the space to life."
Instead of the imaginative, integrated development plan drawn up by Charles Correa, the renowned Mumbai-based architect, the former mill-hub of Lalbaug-Parel is a soulless cram of skyscrapers, mall-to-mall carpeting and snarled traffic clashing with the tenements housing the dispossessed worker families.
For the Greeks, a carpeting.
First shown carpeting the Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern in autumn 2010, the installation is made up of 100m tiny handmade porcelain sculptures that look so much like seeds that visitors to the show were often tempted to bite them.
Now Taiwanese electronics firms the mainstay of the island's economy are racing to move their production lines to Kunshan, carpeting its farmland with high technology factories.Despite the occasional outburst of bellicose language from Beijing, and ritual military manoeuvres in the Taiwan Strait, China is concentrating on wooing the island's business people.
"Here at Alcatel-Lucent," he says, "we're the plumbers of the internet world".Alcatel's Paris headquarters are hardly more glamorous, feeling like "the admin wing of a Dallas company that specialised in carpeting and upholstery".
His voice quaking with emotion, and doubtless recalling the king's famous televised carpeting of an army chief and a protest leader after a massacre in Bangkok in 1992, he beseeched "his majesty" to intervene again to end the showdown.Yet Mr Thaksin, in exile and convicted in absentia of corruption, is accused by his opponents of being a closet republican.
BACK in the golden age of polyester flare slacks and burnt orange shag carpeting, women were more likely than men to report themselves "very happy".
But on the 111th Congress's first day, everyone's mind was on who was barred from making small talk atop the chamber's blue carpeting.
To locate a shared terminal in an office one merely needs to follow the deepest footpath in the carpeting.
They are employed in furniture, carpeting, bedding, textiles, electronics and plastics to reduce the risk of ignition and slow down the rate at which things burn.
They will also have to adopt a more conciliatory approach to whipping, making it less an exercise in carpeting than in constructive career advice.
