Flooring
['flɔːrɪŋ] or ['flɔrɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Floor
(n.) A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n.
(n.) Material for the construction of a floor or floors.
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Examples
- A background and entourage and flooring of deepest crimson threw her out, white like alabaster--like silver: rather, be it said, like Death. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- For siding, sheathing, sub-flooring, shingles, window casings and frames, redwood is much used, because of its resistance to decay, both from contact with moisture or dry rot. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- 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. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The sense of walls, dry, thin, flimsy-seeming walls, and a flimsy flooring, pale with its artificial black edges, was neutralising to the mind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The planing machine of Muir, of Glasgow, British patent No. 5,502, of 1827, was designed for making boards for flooring, and represented a considerable advance in the art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Another step stamped on the flooring above and something fell; and there was silence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Its work is to plane the surfaces of boards, and to cut the edges into tongues and groves, such as are required for flooring. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The floor was composed of earth mixed with lime, trodden into a hard substance, such as is often employed in flooring our modern barns. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The roof of the room was not plastered, but was formed of the flooring of the room above. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Directly behind her a black gulf suddenly yawned in the flooring of the dais. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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