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noun kɑːpkɑrp A deep-bodied freshwater fish, typically with barbels around the mouth. Carp are farmed for food in some parts of the world and are often kept in large ponds. Family Cyprinidae (the carp family): several genera and species. The family includes the majority of freshwater fishes in Eurasia, Africa, and North and Central America Example sentencesExamples - I came across two guys fishing, one of whom was playing a large fish which obviously was a carp.
- The big main lake in front of us has nearly eight hundred carp plus some orfe and tench.
- Experts will try to net all the native carp, bream and tench in the lake and take them to a fish farm before putting the poison into the water.
- The client also wanted a fish eagle with a carp in its talons.
- Fishing a small Kennet side stream I spotted a carp cruising around in a small bay.
- This venue is good for carp, crucians and mullet; it is also one of the prime catfish venues.
- When water levels subside and water stops flowing from the Main Pool, the carp disperse.
- These fish were very close to the wild form of the carp found naturally in the River Danube.
- Club matches have been won with nearly 20 lb of small fish including carp, tench, skimmers, perch and orfe.
- There are already rumours of anglers catching barbel and carp well downstream of the tidal limits of the river.
- It works when they're right, but it stinks like a dead carp when they're wrong.
- Other fish, such as the black carp and mud carp, foraged in sediments at the bottom of the pond.
- Six ducks and 5,000 grass and silver carp have been introduced into the reborn lake to conserve its ecology.
- One species, the silver carp, is known to jump completely out of the water when a boat passes, in some cases injuring passengers.
- Again there are good fish in this section with some very big carp and chub.
- The European carp and trout have driven many native species of fish from our streams.
- The plants have all died and we have lost 22 carp fish from our pond.
- It presently holds excellent stocks of carp, rudd, perch, pike and tench.
- All species feed well in the spring but the two that really start feeding are carp and tench.
- Suddenly a large carp jumps out of the pond and they are both very excited.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French carpe, from late Latin carpa. carpet from Middle English: Originally tables or beds, not floors, were covered by a carpet, and it is the early ‘tablecloth’ meaning that is behind the expression on the carpet, ‘being severely reprimanded by someone in authority’. The phrase originally had the meaning, ‘under consideration or discussion’, and referred to the covering of a council table, where official documents for discussion were placed. A matter up for discussion at a meeting was on the carpet, just as we might now say on the table. The modern sense of carpet is found when you sweep something under the carpet to hide or ignore a problem in the hope that it will be forgotten. The word carpet is from old Italian carpita ‘woollen bedspread’, which was based on Latin carpere ‘to pluck, pull to pieces’, the source of carp (Middle English), ‘to criticise’, and excerpt (mid 16th century) ‘pull bits out’. See also harvest
Rhymes Arp, harp, scarp, sharp, tarp verb kɑːpkɑrp [no object]Complain or find fault continually about trivial matters. I don't want to carp about the way you did it Example sentencesExamples - The critics carped and said it would take us a century to catch up with the internet population in the US.
- And the rest of the time she carped, criticized, verbally and sometimes physically abused her adopted son while fawning obnoxiously over his ‘perfect’ sister.
- I just quickly did a little skim through the OZ's website and they are STILL carping on about Media Watch over there.
- ‘She's the first step to selling out the sport,’ one critic carped in an online discussion group.
- From the live video, he looks like a little puppy dog, who will have parents across Europe carping, ‘get your hair cut’.
- It seems a bit carping to criticize people for maintaining and restoring old buildings.
- He should continue building on this fine work rather than carping on about injustices that don't exist.
- In this debate we will hear a lot of whingeing, whining, carping, snivelling, and grizzling from the opposition.
- He carps constantly that, because others were duped, he shouldn't be blamed.
- Her critics have carped about the book-jacket, made allegations of sloppiness and even made fun of her hair.
- In reviewing such a wide-ranging and successful study, calls for still more work are bound to sound carping.
- It's a fantastic achievement - and one in the eye for those who have carped and cavilled about the underperformance of Great Britain's competitors in Athens.
- There may be carping and dissatisfaction at lower levels but the two continue to enjoy a good personal relationship.
- I have a few quibbles with it but will withhold carping until all three chapters have appeared.
- She comes into the organisation and just carps, whinges, and whines.
- It might seem carping to find fault in such a dazzling and fully realized novel.
- Some critics carped about the fact that a film set in 1956 used a song that was released in 1958 for its theme.
- I've made a concerted effort to ignore most of the carping from the press over the last week.
- Some of it is carping, but this paragraph raises an alarm bell that also went off in my head when I first read it.
- Your typical correspondent carps about a mistranslation, a geographical inaccuracy, an obscure word obscurely misused.
Synonyms complain, cavil, grumble, moan, grouse, grouch, whine, bleat, quibble, niggle, nag find fault with, criticize, pick on, censure, denounce, condemn, decry, disparage informal gripe, beef, bellyache, bitch, whinge, nitpick, pick holes, split hairs, sound off, kick up a fuss, knock British informal chunter, create, be on at someone Northern English informal mither North American informal kvetch complaining, cavilling, grumbling, moaning, grousing, grouching, grouchy, whining, bleating, fault-finding, quibbling, niggling, captious, nagging critical, criticizing, censorious, condemnatory, disparaging, scathing, slighting, reproachful, deprecatory, hypercritical, overcritical, pedantic, hard/difficult/impossible to please Scottish & Irish pass-remarkable informal griping, bellyaching, bitching, whingeing, nitpicking, hair-splitting, picky British informal chuntering Northern English informal mithering North American informal kvetching
Derivatives noun ˈkɑːpəˈkɑrpər Let all keep it up and hope that the carpers and whingers will see the light and come on board. Example sentencesExamples - Inevitably the snipers and the carpers have done their worst to make life uncomfortable for him.
- Do we really want the carpers and complainers, of whatever creed, to get programmes banned?
- He, however, has broad shoulders and the skin of a rhinoceros, and an unabated passion for his subject irrespective of the carpers.
- We don't need any more headstrong, litigious lawyers; we've been groaning under the weight of carpers and cavillers for years.
Origin Middle English (in the sense 'talk, chatter'): from Old Norse karpa 'brag'; later influenced by Latin carpere 'pluck at, slander'. nounkärpkɑrp A deep-bodied freshwater fish, typically with barbels around the mouth. Carp are farmed for food in some parts of the world and are widely kept in large ponds. Family Cyprinidae (the minnow family): several genera and species, including the common carp (Cyprinus carpio) and silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix). The family includes the majority of freshwater fishes in Eurasia, Africa, and North and Central America Example sentencesExamples - These fish were very close to the wild form of the carp found naturally in the River Danube.
- Again there are good fish in this section with some very big carp and chub.
- There are already rumours of anglers catching barbel and carp well downstream of the tidal limits of the river.
- This venue is good for carp, crucians and mullet; it is also one of the prime catfish venues.
- Six ducks and 5,000 grass and silver carp have been introduced into the reborn lake to conserve its ecology.
- The plants have all died and we have lost 22 carp fish from our pond.
- The big main lake in front of us has nearly eight hundred carp plus some orfe and tench.
- I came across two guys fishing, one of whom was playing a large fish which obviously was a carp.
- Club matches have been won with nearly 20 lb of small fish including carp, tench, skimmers, perch and orfe.
- It works when they're right, but it stinks like a dead carp when they're wrong.
- All species feed well in the spring but the two that really start feeding are carp and tench.
- Other fish, such as the black carp and mud carp, foraged in sediments at the bottom of the pond.
- Fishing a small Kennet side stream I spotted a carp cruising around in a small bay.
- It presently holds excellent stocks of carp, rudd, perch, pike and tench.
- When water levels subside and water stops flowing from the Main Pool, the carp disperse.
- One species, the silver carp, is known to jump completely out of the water when a boat passes, in some cases injuring passengers.
- The European carp and trout have driven many native species of fish from our streams.
- Suddenly a large carp jumps out of the pond and they are both very excited.
- The client also wanted a fish eagle with a carp in its talons.
- Experts will try to net all the native carp, bream and tench in the lake and take them to a fish farm before putting the poison into the water.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French carpe, from late Latin carpa. verbkärpkɑrp [no object]Complain or find fault continually about trivial matters. I don't want to carp about the way you did it he was constantly carping at me Example sentencesExamples - I've made a concerted effort to ignore most of the carping from the press over the last week.
- Her critics have carped about the book-jacket, made allegations of sloppiness and even made fun of her hair.
- The critics carped and said it would take us a century to catch up with the internet population in the US.
- ‘She's the first step to selling out the sport,’ one critic carped in an online discussion group.
- She comes into the organisation and just carps, whinges, and whines.
- Some critics carped about the fact that a film set in 1956 used a song that was released in 1958 for its theme.
- Some of it is carping, but this paragraph raises an alarm bell that also went off in my head when I first read it.
- Your typical correspondent carps about a mistranslation, a geographical inaccuracy, an obscure word obscurely misused.
- It might seem carping to find fault in such a dazzling and fully realized novel.
- There may be carping and dissatisfaction at lower levels but the two continue to enjoy a good personal relationship.
- From the live video, he looks like a little puppy dog, who will have parents across Europe carping, ‘get your hair cut’.
- He should continue building on this fine work rather than carping on about injustices that don't exist.
- He carps constantly that, because others were duped, he shouldn't be blamed.
- In this debate we will hear a lot of whingeing, whining, carping, snivelling, and grizzling from the opposition.
- I just quickly did a little skim through the OZ's website and they are STILL carping on about Media Watch over there.
- And the rest of the time she carped, criticized, verbally and sometimes physically abused her adopted son while fawning obnoxiously over his ‘perfect’ sister.
- I have a few quibbles with it but will withhold carping until all three chapters have appeared.
- It seems a bit carping to criticize people for maintaining and restoring old buildings.
- It's a fantastic achievement - and one in the eye for those who have carped and cavilled about the underperformance of Great Britain's competitors in Athens.
- In reviewing such a wide-ranging and successful study, calls for still more work are bound to sound carping.
Synonyms complaining, cavilling, grumbling, moaning, grousing, grouching, grouchy, whining, bleating, fault-finding, quibbling, niggling, captious, nagging complain, cavil, grumble, moan, grouse, grouch, whine, bleat, quibble, niggle, nag
Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘talk, chatter’): from Old Norse karpa ‘brag’; later influenced by Latin carpere ‘pluck at, slander’. |