flooring

English

Etymology

From Middle English floring

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːrɪŋ

Noun

flooring (countable and uncountable, plural floorings)

1. A floor.
   • 2008 May/Jun, Erin Barnes, “Glossed Over”, in E: The Environmental Magazine, volume 19, number 3, page 21:

     Every day we are exposed to low doses of phthalates in food containers, perfumes, hairsprays, floorings, paints, toys and medical devices.

2. A material used to make floors.
3. (sports) The act of putting one's opponent on the floor; a knockdown.

Translations

floor

• Finnish: lattia (fi)
• German: Fußboden (de) m, Boden (de) m
• Macedonian: под m (pod), патос m (patos)
• Latin: tabulātum n
• Portuguese: tablado m
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• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: патос m, под m

  Roman: patos (sh) m, pod (sh) m

material

• Finnish: lattiamateriaali
• German: Bodenbelag (de) m
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• Irish: urlárlach m

knockdown

• Finnish: pudottaminen (fi), tyrmäys (fi)
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Verb

flooring

1. present participle of floor