Definitions for flooring

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flooring floor·ing

Spelling: [flawr-ing, flohr-]

IPA: /ˈflɔr ɪŋ, ˈfloʊr-/

Flooring is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 191 anagrams from letters in flooring (fgilnoor).

Definitions for flooring

noun

1. a floor.
2. floors collectively.
3. materials for making floors.
4. that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
5. a continuous, supporting surface extending horizontally throughout a building, having a number of rooms, apartments, or the like, and constituting one level or stage in the structure; story.
6. a level, supporting surface in any structure:
7. one of two or more layers of material composing a floor:
8. a platform or prepared level area for a particular use:
9. the bottom of any more or less hollow place:
10. a more or less flat extent of surface:
11. the part of a legislative chamber, meeting room, etc., where the members sit, and from which they speak.
12. the right of one member to speak from such a place in preference to other members:
13. the area of a floor, as in a factory or retail store, where items are actually made or sold, as opposed to offices, supply areas, etc.:
14. the main part of a stock or commodity exchange or the like, as distinguished from the galleries, platform, etc.
15. the bottom, base, or minimum charged, demanded, or paid:
16. Mining. an underlying stratum, as of ore, usually flat.
17. Nautical. the bottom of a hull. any of a number of deep, transverse framing members at the bottom of a steel or iron hull, generally interrupted by and joined to any vertical keel or keelsons. the lowermost member of a frame in a wooden vessel.

Idioms

1. mop / wipe the floor with, Informal. to overwhelm completely; defeat:
2. take the floor, to arise to address a meeting.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or furnish with a floor.
2. to bring down to the floor or ground; knock down:
3. to overwhelm; defeat.
4. to confound or puzzle; nonplus:
5. Also, floorboard. to push (a foot-operated accelerator pedal) all the way down to the floor of a vehicle, for maximum speed or power.

Origin of flooring

First recorded in 1615-25; floor + -ing¹

Examples for flooring

The click of heels on the flooring finally caused him to look up.

In Hong-Kong it is used, amongst other purposes, for wharf-decks or flooring.

Lay some more down in the centre as a flooring for the performers.

Three feet above was the flooring, and all the rearguard passing over.

A few loose boards were laid upon the ground by way of flooring.

It was a long, bare room, newly boarded as to ceiling, flooring and walls.

I had no doubt that the bridge was down, or, if not, that its flooring was torn up.

But all his attempts to cross that tongue of flooring had been vetoed by the guards.

The four proceeded along the hall and over the tongue of flooring.

By now the second man had his knee upon the edge of flooring.