'Flooring' definitions:
Definition of 'flooring'
(from WordNet)
noun
The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent" [syn: floor, flooring]
noun
Building material used in laying floors
Definition of 'Flooring'
From: GCIDE
- Flooring \Floor"ing\, n. A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Material for the construction of a floor or floors. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Flooring'
From: GCIDE
- Floor \Floor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Floored; p. pr. & vb. n. Flooring.]
- 1. To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent. [1913 Webster]
- Floored or crushed by him. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- I've floored my little-go work. --T. Hughes. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'flooring'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adobe,
- ashlar,
- base,
- basement,
- basis,
- bearing wall,
- bed,
- bedding,
- bedrock,
- brick,
- bricks and mortar,
- carpet,
- carpeting,
- cement,
- clinker,
- concrete,
- cover,
- covering materials,
- deck,
- doormat,
- drop cloth,
- duckboards,
- earth,
- ferroconcrete,
- firebrick,
- flag,
- flagstone,
- floor,
- floor covering,
- floorboards,
- fond,
- footing,
- foundation,
- fundament,
- fundamental,
- ground,
- ground cloth,
- ground-sheet,
- grounds,
- groundwork,
- hardpan,
- lath and plaster,
- masonry,
- mat,
- mortar,
- parquet,
- pave,
- pavement,
- paving,
- paving material,
- plasters,
- prestressed concrete,
- principle,
- radical,
- riprap,
- rock bottom,
- roofage,
- roofing,
- rudiment,
- rug,
- seat,
- siding,
- sill,
- solid ground,
- solid rock,
- stereobate,
- stone,
- stylobate,
- substratum,
- substruction,
- substructure,
- surfacing,
- terra firma,
- tile,
- tiling,
- underbuilding,
- undercarriage,
- undergirding,
- underpinning,
- understruction,
- understructure,
- walling,
- welcome mat
Words containing 'Flooring'
- Floor,
- Floored,
- Deck floor,
- Double floor,
- First floor,
- Floor cloth,
- Floor cramp,
- Floor light,
- Floor plan,
- Ground floor,
- Malt floor,
- Naked flooring,
- Second floor,
- Thrashing floor,
- Threshing floor,
- dance floor,
- floor board,
- floor cover,
- floor covering,
- floor joist,
- floor lamp,
- floor leader,
- floor show,
- floor wax,
- fly floor,
- mezzanine floor,
- ocean floor,
- on a higher floor,
- on a lower floor,
- parquet floor,
- price floor,
- privilege of the floor,
- sea floor,
- shop floor,
- take the floor,
- trading floor,
- wage floor,
- Threshing-floor,
- ground-floor,
- Double-framed floor