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Meaning rug meaning

What does rug mean?
Definitions in simple English

rug

A rug is a piece of cloth used to cover the floor, just like a carpet. My sister bought a new rug for the living room.

rug

When you rug something, you pull it in a very rough way and the thing may spoil due to this. Stop rugging the rope! It may tear apart and we cannot use it again.

rug

floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)

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Topics rug topics

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Examples rug examples

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Simple sentences

Tom and Mary bought a handmade rug.
Just sweep it under the rug.
When I didn't have any money, I only had a rug for a bed.
Tom was vacuuming the rug while Mary was mopping the kitchen floor.
Tibetan rug weavers use traditional designs and knotting. Hence their rugs have a simple, natural look.
The victim's body was lying face down on the rug.
Tom is a rug dealer.
Tom bought a Persian rug.
I hate this rug.
I have to buy a new rug for the room.
Tom beat the rug with his old tennis racket.
Tom bought a rug.
Tom bought a Turkish rug.
Tom bought an antique rug.
We need to buy a new rug for this room.
The cat is on the rug.
The rug was covered with cat hair.
It's a beautiful rug.
The floor was completely covered by a large rug.
This rug is handmade.
We'll have to measure the room before we buy the rug.
This rug has a nice pattern.
We rolled up the rug.
Spread the rug out and let me look at it.

Movie subtitles

If you concentrate on Zero too much, they will pull the rug out from under you!
As soon as they open the ballroom, let's cut a rug?
Hey, I need to see a man about a rug.
That is a premium rug.
The rug is different.
The pattern on the rug has three diamonds running across.
The rug there now also has three diamonds but a black border.
Someone replaced the rug to hide the bloodstains.
The wind's quite chilly, Fetch a rug, would you.
If you ever got into a drawing room, you'd step on a sliding rug.
The rug has been moved toward the window.
Put a warm rug in the car.
Where's that rug?
A rug of Persia.
Safe as a bug in a rug.
He was the first lion I ever conquered with my bare fist. I beat him to a rug.
I was working for a rug distributor.
Pedro came in here yesterday to lay a new rug.
Not under the rug.
The rug, dear, the rug.
Yes, sir? When you found that cab, you might remove the dust that you kicked under the rug on the landing.
Well, if we can get the rug up before dear Aunt Charlotte.
Maybe a rug on the floor?
A phony Russian policeman, an anarchist. was to get me into the Foreign Affairs Ministry. with 3 other temporary workers who were. to move a rug on which the Czar's bed would be placed.
But you'll be busy with your rug, won't you?
Yeah, pine logs and curling flames, a faithful dog, nice white bearskin rug, a little woman to fetch your slippers.
Don't you think we should have a rug over there to cover that bare spot?
A rug!
And stop flicking your ashes on my rug.
Found these two hairs in the rug.
I think there's a steamer rug in the trunk.
Look at us, we sell eight hamburgers a week and a case of soda pop, and once in a while, a Navajo rug maybe.
Inside stuff, how they weave a rug.
How they weave a Navajo rug?

News and current affairs

In the world of old, the West's economic malaise already would have pulled the rug from beneath most emerging-market countries.
Syria's opposition leaders do not need to sweep their political differences under the rug in order to gain the international community's support.
Arab democracy, he claims, has now become a domestic concern in the United States, which will make it hard for American presidents to sweep the abuses of friendly Arab regimes under the rug, as they did in the past.
Asian countries, for instance, have typically liberalized at the margin (through export subsidies or special economic zones), spurring new export industries without pulling the rug from under the rest.
Many diplomats would prefer to forget the Russo-Georgian war or sweep it under the rug.
The level of sexual violence directed against women in India is not unusual; what is unusual is that the country's media are now covering the issue as a burning social problem, rather than sweeping it under the rug.
The Nazi-Soviet pact, which carved up Poland and Romania between the Soviet Union and Germany, has been swept under the rug.