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flooring

[ flawr-ing, flohr- ]

noun

  1. a floor.
  2. floors collectively.
  3. materials for making floors.


flooring

/ ˈflɔːrɪŋ /

noun

  1. the material used in making a floor, esp the surface material
  2. another word for floor
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • under·flooring noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of flooring1

First recorded in 1615–25; floor + -ing 1
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Example Sentences

The 240-milliliter water tank covers up to 2,000 square feet of flooring for a tough and thorough clean.

Sometimes the person’s shoes are of interest, but more often, it’s the graphic flooring that catches your eye.

The flooring makes the room more fun — just what she wanted and needed in her laundry room, McDonald jokes — and the space quickly became the room her friends commented on most often.

This shed has to be assembled, and does not include flooring, as floor kits must be ordered according to the type of ground it’ll sit on.

The flooring of the shed is reinforced to support heavy equipment.

It eats through and corrodes the porcelain and then the wood flooring beneath it and, boom, down it comes.

The bridge flooring rests on the supporting members, and is of very various types according to the purpose of the bridge.

This increment is larger on the flooring girders than on the main ones, and on short main girders than on long ones.

Road bridges vary so much in the character of the flooring that no general rule can be given.

The cost of abutments and bridge flooring is practically independent of the length of span adopted.

The slabs of the flooring, covered everywhere else with greenish moisture, wore a blood-red tint under the prong.

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