noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a prayer mat/rug (= small cloth on which Muslims kneel to pray )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
oriental
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Members sat beneath handmade mobiles hung with colorful Origami birds. Oriental rugs and an overstuffed sofa made the room feel cozy.
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The carpet is pale green and scattered with Oriental rugs .
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I remember gasping when I first walked in: the artwork, the oriental rugs , the wood-burning fireplace.
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In addition to their underlying similarities of character and appearance, oriental rugs are also defined by the manner in which they are made.
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Never place an oriental rug , particularly an expensive one, directly on an uncarpeted floor.
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Demonstrators whoop and holler as colleagues receive gifts ... a Tupperware colander ... an Oriental rug .
persian
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Rubena Grigg, Orchard wallpaper in Buttermilk colourway, £13.50 per roll. Persian rug .
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The room we are in has a Persian rug and tiny tables and chairs.
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This is especially true of Persian rugs .
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It will make a Persian rug market look like a model of decorum and straight dealing.
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The polished wooden floor glowed richly, a Persian rug hand-woven in silk spread across the centre.
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Now it was gone, to the last Persian rug and Deco lamp.
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It is therefore not surprising that floral and garden designs feature prominently in Persian rugs .
small
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He reached into a backpack and pulled out a small rug and put it out in front of me.
■ NOUN
prayer
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This is essential with prayer rugs and pictorial carpets, which lose much of their impact if viewed upside-down.
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We travel the world with our gym bags and prayer rugs , unrolling them in the transit lounges.
■ VERB
cover
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An old white-haired woman in a wheelchair, her legs covered by a tartan rug , wearing a canary yellow blouse.
lie
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Do not, whatever you do, lay down loose rugs , they are guaranteed to trip you up.
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I took Janir to school in the mornings, came home, lay on the living-room rug and wept.
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Tom was lying on the hearth rug , reading Flipper.
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A shaggy wolfhound lay on a rug before the enormous fireplace, nose on his paws.
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Chola lay down on the rug and fell asleep.
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I lay down on the rug in front of the fire and dozed off.
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Tina's lying on the sheepskin rug .
make
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Q I'd like to make a rug during this winter.
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It will make a Persian rug market look like a model of decorum and straight dealing.
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It is caused by the weaver moving to a separately dyed batch of yarn part-way through making a rug .
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He works in the craft business there, making rugs from alpaca.
produce
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This innovation makes it possible to produce rugs that are almost twice as long as the distance between the horizontal beams.
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The women began producing thousands of rugs a year for sale to tourists and collectors.
pull
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So the Government helped out by pulling the rug from under savers.
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He reached into a backpack and pulled out a small rug and put it out in front of me.
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It rather pulls the rug from under all those James Bond films.
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Congressional Republicans are tempted to pull the rug out from under Bill Clinton wherever possible.
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It snuggles up to something familiar then pulls the rug out and dares you to keep your balance.
sit
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Instead, she sat on the hearth rug wrapped deep in thought and an enormous yellow blanket while he refreshed their drinks.
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As the mourners left, Lydia heard a low laugh and sat up on her rug , thinking suspiciously of her ears.
sweep
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She prepared the meals and pumped the water and drew t e baths and swept the rugs and made the beds.
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I am proud of the fact that we did not sweep things under the rug .
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These emotions play a big role in early development and can not be swept under the rug .
use
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Alternatively, use a rug or foam mat to protect you from a hard floor.
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One other thing - would it be advisable to use a stable rug at night?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shag carpet/rug
travelling rug/clock etc
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And he takes a travelling rug with him - another of those fussy bag-and-baggage objects which assert the novel's tonality.
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At a quarter to four by the little travelling clock at his bedside he got out of bed and went to the window.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a large circular rug
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A comfortable chair, a rug on the deck, and a favorite picture made it my home.
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A thick, choking smoke arose but the rug began to burn and she dropped it with a cry.
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He brought in a rug from New York Carpet World and put it under his desk.
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In the living-room, Fara was asleep on a rug beside Chantal's cradle.
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Never place an oriental rug , particularly an expensive one, directly on an uncarpeted floor.
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We went into a living room in which there was old furniture, a worn rug , and a frayed velvet sofa.