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Definition: Flooring |
FlooringNoun1. The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors". 2. Building material used in laying floors. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flooring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | The surface of a floor. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Flooring is the general term for a permanent covering of a floor. It is usually used to mean wood flooring, but it can also refer to carpets, laminate flooring, and linoleum.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flooring."
Synonym: FlooringSynonym: floor (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Flooring |
| English words defined with "flooring": beech, beechwood, Binding beam ♦ Case-bay, Chesses ♦ Double floor ♦ Inside finish ♦ maple ♦ oak ♦ planking, Poyntel ♦ Rickstand ♦ Straight-joint. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flooring": absorptive flooring, ASSEMBLER, INSULATION AND FLOORING, AUTOMATIC-DOOR MECHANIC ♦ block maker, boat bottomer, bottom boards ♦ CARPENTER, RAILCAR, colored slates ♦ dinosaur pen ♦ EXTERMINATOR, TERMITE ♦ FIRST HELPER ♦ HOUSE MOVER ♦ INSTALLER, METAL FLOORING, INSTALLER-INSPECTOR, FINAL ♦ melter assistant ♦ open-hearth-furnace operator, OVERLAY PLASTICIAN ♦ parquet flooring ♦ ROCK SPLITTER ♦ SERVICE MECHANIC, Sorel cement, STRIP POLISHER, Subfloor, SUPERVISOR, CAR INSTALLATIONS ♦ termite treater, thin stock, tile paster, TRAILER ASSEMBLER II, trailer assembler, paneling, trailer-sections assembler. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "flooring": Parquetry. (references) |
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Screenplays | Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that (Old School; writing credit: Court Crandall; Todd Phillips) | |
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Business | While Canadian flooring products imports have increased, so have their exports. (references) | |
Imports satisfy a significant portion of Canada’s demand for flooring products. (references) | ||
There currently are no non-tariff barriers against wood flooring boards in Korea. (references) | ||
Economic History | Spain | The demand for U.S. hardwoods is closely linked to new housing and remodeling activity since they are utilized in interior applications, especially in flooring and doors. (references) |
Turkey | Imports to Turkey include flooring, prefabricated wall panels, wall paper, doors, windows, paint, insulation, sanitary wares and plumbing fixtures, prefabricated homes, roofing and siding materials. (references) | |
Brazil | Today, leading construction firms use gypsum boards, modular bathrooms, pre-manufactured windows and doors, ceiling and flooring systems and other products that assure fast and efficient construction. (references) | |
Trade | Japan | Specific JAS marks exist for various types of plywood, paneling, flooring boards, lumber, and timber. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Flooring" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.32% of the time. "Flooring" is used about 146 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.32% | 145 | 26,217 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 0.68% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 146 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| India | Premier Vinyl Flooring Limited | USA | Flooring America Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "flooring": absorptive flooring ♦ naked flooring ♦ parquet flooring ♦ plank flooring. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "flooring": flooring-grade. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
flooring | 2,544 | flooring material | 135 |
laminate flooring | 2,194 | beautiful begins flooring us | 135 |
hardwood flooring | 1,483 | slate flooring | 133 |
wood flooring | 1,237 | parquet flooring | 130 |
armstrong flooring | 749 | mohawk flooring | 128 |
vinyl flooring | 659 | hard wood flooring | 125 |
bamboo flooring | 621 | shaw flooring | 124 |
pergo flooring | 596 | mannington flooring | 121 |
tile flooring | 573 | home flooring | 118 |
cork flooring | 492 | marble flooring | 103 |
discount flooring | 307 | stone flooring | 100 |
bruce flooring | 275 | commercial flooring | 100 |
kitchen flooring | 257 | linoleum flooring | 99 |
rubber flooring | 225 | ceramic tile flooring | 93 |
laminated flooring | 216 | pergo laminate flooring | 83 |
laminate wood flooring | 200 | installing laminate flooring | 83 |
oak flooring | 171 | plank flooring | 81 |
bruce hardwood flooring | 155 | concrete flooring | 80 |
wilsonart flooring | 147 | pine flooring | 76 |
garage flooring | 138 | wooden flooring | 76 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "flooring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shtrim dyshemeje, parket (parquet, parquetry), dysheme (floor). (various references) | |
Arabic | تخشيب الأرضية, تبليط (paving, slabbing), أرضية (floor). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | поставяне на подова настилка. (various references) | |
Czech | podlaha (floor). (various references) | |
Danish | træbrodække (plank covering, planking), stykkepasning, gulvbelaegning (floor finish), brobelægning (bridge decking, bridge surfacing, deck slab). (various references) | |
Dutch | vloerbedekking (floor finish), rijvloer (deck, plank covering, planking), rijvlak (plank covering, planking), rijdek (bridge decking, bridge surfacing, deck slab), dek (deck, blanket), beplating (plank covering, planking), behandeling van de hoop. (various references) | |
Finnish | lattianpäällyste (floor finish). (various references) | |
French | revêtement de sol (floor finish). (various references) | |
German | Bodenbelag (floor covering), Fußboden (floor). (various references) | |
Greek | κατασκευή δαπέδου (floor finish), έλεγχος βλάστησης, σανίδωμα (hoarding), στρώση κυκλοφορίας μιας γέφυρας (bridge decking, bridge surfacing, deck slab), παρκέ (parquet), υλικά διά πατώματα, επένδυση δαπέδου (floor finish). (various references) | |
Hebrew | רצוף (attached, consecutive, continuous, enclosed, inlaid, paved, paving, running, sequential, successive, unbroken, uninterrupted), רצפות (paving), רצפה (floor). (various references) | |
Hungarian | padlózás (planking), padlózat (cabin floor, planking), padlóburkolat, padló (floor), leterítés, földhöz vágás. (various references) | |
Italian | tavolato (boarding, planking), rivestimento del suolo (floor finish), rivestimento del pavimento (floor finish), pavimento (floor), pavimentazione stradale del ponte (bridge decking, bridge surfacing, deck slab), pavimentazione (paving), palco (box, dais, platform, stage), impiantito (plank covering, planking), impalcato di ponte (plank covering, planking), condotta della germinazione. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | フロー制御 (FD, floor, floor director, floor lady, floor lamp, floor limit, floor manager, floor price, floor show, floor-plan, flow control, Floyd, follower, miss), フレコン化 (changing something to full remote control, flex, flextime, float, floater serve, floating, flora, flow, flow inflation, flowchart, French, French cancan, French dressing, French kiss, French sleeve, French toast, fresh, fresher, freshman, fret, fretless, friend, friendly, friends, friendship, frozen food, frozen yoghurt, newly hired career-track company employee, wooden floor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フローリング (wooden floor), フロアリング . (various references) | |
Korean | 마루. (various references) | |
Manx | laareagh (floored). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ooringflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | solho (plank covering, planking), revestimento de soalho (floor finish), revestimento de chão (floor finish), pavimento (pavement, floor, storey), pavimentação (pave, pavement, paving), lajedo, condução da germinação, camada de desgaste de uma ponte (bridge decking, bridge surfacing, deck slab), assoalho (floor). (various references) | |
Romanian | podit, podire (pavement), podea (decking, floor, paving), planşeu (floor), pardosealã (board), duşumea (decking, floor), doborâre la pãmânt. (various references) | |
Russian | настил (decking). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | postavljanje patosa. (various references) | |
Spanish | revestimiento del suelo (floor finish), revestimiento del puente (bridge decking, bridge surfacing, deck slab), puesto (stand, barn, shed), piso de tablas (plank covering, planking), piso (apartment, floor, flat, storey, story), pavimento del puente (bridge decking, bridge surfacing, deck slab), embaldosado (tiling). (various references) | |
Swedish | golvbeläggning (pavement). (various references) | |
Thai | วัสดุที่ใช้ทำพื้นห้อง. (various references) | |
Turkish | ahşap döşeme (hardwood floor, plank flooring, planking). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | настилання підлоги, підлога (deck, floor). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nguyên vật liệu làm sàn sự làm sàn nhà. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flooring": floorings. (additional references) | |
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"Flooring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flairing, flooting, floowing, florting, fodorian, fouring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flooring" (pronounced flô"ring) |
| 5 | -l ô" r i ng | deploring, exploring, imploring. |
| 4 | -ô" r i ng | adoring, boring, Goring, ignoring, outpouring, poring, pouring, restoring, roaring, scoring, shoring, snoring, soaring, storing, underscoring, warring. |
| 3 | -r i ng | appearing, acquiring, adhering, admiring, airing, alluring, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, caring, chairing, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, despairing, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, fearing, firing, flaring, gearing, glaring, haring, hearing, herring, hiring, impairing, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, pioneering, premiering, preparing, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, repairing, retiring, scaring, scarring, searing, securing, sharing, shearing, smearing, snaring, sneering, sparing, sparring, Spearing, squaring, staring, starring, steering, stevedoring, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, uninspiring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, wearing, wiring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-l-n-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: fooling, rolfing, roofing. | |
-2 letters: florin, logion, looing. | |
-3 letters: fling, flong, floor, folio, forgo, giron, gonif, gonof, groin, igloo, lingo, logoi. | |
-4 letters: filo, fino, firn, flog, foil, foin, fool, frig, frog, girl, girn, giro, golf, goof, goon, grin, info, inro, iron, ling, lino, lion, logo, loin, long, loof, loon, lorn, noil, noir, nolo, nori, olio. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i-l-n-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: floorings. | |
+2 letters: reflooding. | |
+3 letters: foreclosing, forelocking, overflowing. | |
+4 letters: comfortingly, forebodingly, nonflowering. | |
+5 letters: childproofing, chloroforming, conflagration, flameproofing, fluoroscoping, glorification, waterflooding. | |
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