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ALL meanings of flooring

floor·ing
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  • abbreviation FLOORING floor 1
  • noun flooring floor materials: tiles, etc. 1
  • noun flooring The boards or other material of which a floor is made. 1
  • noun flooring that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks. 1
  • noun flooring 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. 1
  • noun flooring a level, supporting surface in any structure: the elevator floor. 1
  • noun flooring one of two or more layers of material composing a floor: rough floor; finish floor. 1
  • noun flooring a platform or prepared level area for a particular use: a threshing floor. 1
  • noun flooring the bottom of any more or less hollow place: the floor of a tunnel. 1
  • noun flooring a more or less flat extent of surface: the floor of the ocean. 1
  • noun flooring the part of a legislative chamber, meeting room, etc., where the members sit, and from which they speak. 1
  • noun flooring the right of one member to speak from such a place in preference to other members: The senator from Alaska has the floor. 1
  • noun flooring 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.: There are only two salesclerks on the floor. 1
  • noun flooring the main part of a stock or commodity exchange or the like, as distinguished from the galleries, platform, etc. 1
  • noun flooring the bottom, base, or minimum charged, demanded, or paid: The government avoided establishing a price or wage floor. 1
  • noun flooring Mining. an underlying stratum, as of ore, usually flat. 1
  • noun flooring 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. 1
  • verb with object flooring to cover or furnish with a floor. 1
  • verb with object flooring to bring down to the floor or ground; knock down: He floored his opponent with one blow. 1
  • verb with object flooring to overwhelm; defeat. 1
  • verb with object flooring to confound or puzzle; nonplus: I was floored by the problem. 1
  • verb with object flooring Also, floorboard. to push (a foot-operated accelerator pedal) all the way down to the floor of a vehicle, for maximum speed or power. 1
  • idioms flooring mop / wipe the floor with, Informal. to overwhelm completely; defeat: He expected to mop the floor with his opponents. 1
  • idioms flooring take the floor, to arise to address a meeting. 1
  • variable noun flooring Flooring is a material that is used to make the floor of a room. 0
  • noun flooring the material used in making a floor, esp the surface material 0
  • noun flooring a floor 0
  • noun flooring floors collectively 0
  • noun flooring material for making a floor 0
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