FLOORING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flooring mean? 

• FLOORING (noun)
  The noun FLOORING has 2 senses:

1. the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)

2. building material used in laying floors

  Familiarity information: FLOORING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOORING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

floor; flooring

Context example:

we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent

Hypernyms ("flooring" is a kind of...):

horizontal surface; level (a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flooring"):

bell deck (a floor under the bells of an open belfry)

dance floor (a bare floor polished for dancing)

floorboard (the floor of an automobile)

parquet; parquet floor (a floor made of parquetry)

truck bed (the floor or bottom of a wagon or truck or trailer)

Holonyms ("flooring" is a part of...):

hall; hallway (an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open)

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Building material used in laying floors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("flooring" is a kind of...):

building material (material used for constructing buildings)

 Context examples 

They had scarce reached it, however, ere they found that the wooden joists and planks of the flooring were already on fire.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Another step stamped on the flooring above and something fell; and there was silence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The walls were carefully sounded, and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was also thoroughly examined, with the same result.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At present, products such as laminated bamboo are most commonly used as flooring materials due to their hardness and durability.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

But all these tokens of past grandeur were miserably decayed and dirty; rot, damp, and age, had weakened the flooring, which in many places was unsound and even unsafe.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This carpet was a small square drugget in the centre of the room, surrounded by a broad expanse of beautiful, old-fashioned wood-flooring in square blocks, highly polished.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But when the descending foot missed the solid flooring and felt vacancy beneath, it was the old Wolf Larsen and the tiger muscles that made the falling body spring across the opening, even as it fell, so that he struck on his chest and stomach, with arms outstretched, on the floor of the opposite side.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her mysterious end.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Somewhere a boot thumped loudly and at irregular intervals against the wall; and, though it was a mild night on the sea, there was a continual chorus of the creaking timbers and bulkheads and of abysmal noises beneath the flooring.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)