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Definition of Flooring
1. Noun. The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure). "We spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent"
Specialized synonyms: Bell Deck, Dance Floor, Floorboard, Parquet, Parquet Floor, Truck Bed
Group relationships: Hall, Hallway, Room
Generic synonyms: Horizontal Surface, Level
Derivative terms: Floor
2. Noun. Building material used in laying floors.
Definition of Flooring
1. n. A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor,
Definition of Flooring
1. Noun. A floor. ¹
2. Noun. A material used to make floors. ¹
3. Noun. (sports) The act of putting one's opponent on the floor. ¹
4. Verb. Present participle of ''to floor''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flooring
1. a floor [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flooring
Literary usage of Flooring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"Douglas fir flooring is made in i by 3, I by 4, I by 6, i/4 by 4 and iVt by ...
Grooved, Matched flooring, lengths of the various hardwood boards used for ..."
2. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"This flooring is seldom used for a wearing surface, being used as a structural
... Flat sawed and edge grain flooring. Fia. 132.—Four methods of cutting a ..."
3. The Design of Steel Mill Buildings and the Calculation of Stresses in Framed by Milo Smith Ketchum (1921)
"The flooring shown in (i) is for buildings, is made in sections of four ...
The flooring when complete with a concrete filling and a Ij-in. wearing surface ..."
4. The Electrical Engineer (1893)
"Upon the crown of each arch in this flooring are riveted iron cleats at suitable
distances for holding the longitudinal timbers, upon which are spiked the ..."
5. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1922)
"flooring-gypsum is, in any case, a pure plaster, entirely free from water. ...
Pure flooring-plaster gives the best results for hardness, but for economy it ..."
6. Lumber and Its Uses by Royal Shaw Kellogg (1919)
"HARDWOOD flooring ONE of the most notable and useful developments of modern lumber
manufacturing -is the production of high-grade flooring of maple, beech, ..."
7. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1905)
"Pure flooring-plaster gives the best results for hardness, ... A cubic meter of
hardened flooring-gypsum weighs about 2000 Ibs., equivalent to a weight of ..."
8. Inspection of the Materials and Workmanship Employed in Construction: A by Austin Thomas Byrne (1898)
"flooring. Single flooring consists of a tier of joists running from one ...
Straight-joint flooring is when every board is laid separately and blind or edge ..."
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