Word Study
flooring
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun flooring has 2 senses
- flooring(n = noun.artifact) floor - the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent" has particulars: bell deck, dance floor, floorboard, parquet, parquet floor, truck bed
- flooring(n = noun.substance) Array - building material used in laying floors; Array is a kind of building material
is a part of hall, hallway, room
is a kind of horizontal surface, level
CIDE DICTIONARY
flooring, n.
- A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor,
n. Addison. [1913 Webster] - Material for the construction of a floor or floors. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
flooring
adobe, ashlar, base, basement, basis, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, brick, bricks and mortar, carpet, carpeting, cement, clinker, concrete, cover, covering materials, deck, doormat, drop cloth, duckboards, earth, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagstone, floor, floor covering, floorboards, fond, footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, ground, ground cloth, ground-sheet, grounds, groundwork, hardpan, lath and plaster, masonry, mat, mortar, parquet, pave, pavement, paving, paving material, plasters, prestressed concrete, principle, radical, riprap, rock bottom, roofage, roofing, rudiment, rug, seat, siding, sill, solid ground, solid rock, stereobate, stone, stylobate, substratum, substruction, substructure, surfacing, terra firma, tile, tiling, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, walling, welcome mat
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