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/flˈɔrɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Flooring n.

A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n.

Material for the construction of a floor or floors.

verb

Floor v. t. (past & past part. floored; pres. part. flooring)

To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.

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. "Floored or crushed by him."

To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination. (Colloq.) "I've floored my little-go work."

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Etymology of 'Flooring'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flooring" Quotes from Famous Books

... flat-boat was there moored by it, it's setting poles lying across the gunwales. Above the town the stream was crossed by a crazy wooden bridge, the supports of which leaned all ways in the soggy soil; the absence of a plank here and there in the flooring made the crossing of the bridge faster than a walk an offense not necessary to be ...

— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

... temples of the drama into ball-rooms. They have not yet arrived at the wonderful expedition and despatch observed in Paris, where a half hour is enough to convert the grand opera into the masked ball. The invention of this process of flooring the orchestra flush with the stage and making a vast dancing-hall out of both is due to an ingenious courtier of the regency, bearing the great name of De Bouillon, who got much credit and a pension by it. In Madrid they take the afternoon leisurely to the transformation, ...

— Castilian Days • John Hay

... right, for, upon his drawing the lanthorn out— and none too soon, an odour of singed worsted becoming perceptible—they found that the sudden sharp slope of the granite flooring went down some twenty feet, and upon lowering the light by means of the rope the lanthorn came to rest ...

— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn

... long poles for her home occupied all of the daylight hours that were not engaged in the search for food. These poles she carried high into her tree and with them constructed a flooring across two stout branches binding the poles together and also to the branches with fibers from the tough arboraceous grasses that grew in profusion near the stream. Similarly she built walls and a roof, the latter thatched with many layers of ...

— Tarzan the Terrible • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... the cosy chambers which the Reform provides for its favoured members. He passed ten hours out of the twenty-four in Saville Row, either in sleeping or making his toilet. When he chose to take a walk it was with a regular step in the entrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illumined by blue painted windows. When he breakfasted or dined all the resources of the club—its kitchens and pantries, its buttery and dairy—aided ...

— Around the World in 80 Days • Jules Verne

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