单词 | flooring |
释义 | flooringn. The action of floor v. 1. The action of flooring or laying down a floor. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > [noun] > flooring planchering1411 planking?a1450 sollaring1545 flooring1632 planching1706 floor-laying1884 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A flooring with plankes or boords, planchage. 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. 155 Of Flooring of Rooms. 1866 Law Rep.: Common Pleas Div. 1 163 The plaintiff is..the patentee of certain buckle plates used for bridge flooring. 2. a. concrete. The floor of a room, etc.; also, the materials of which it is made. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] fleta1000 floorc1000 floorth1303 loftingc1540 contignation1592 loft1596 contabulation1615 flooring1624 planchera1825 contablature1827 ground1847 Rory O'More1857 floor level1874 Rory1938 society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > building-material > for floors flooring1624 decking1883 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 63 Mosaique is..of most use in pavements and floorings. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 129 To pitch the waxen Flooring some contrive. View more context for this quotation 1754 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 23 June (1967) III. 55 The ceiling and Flooring are in good repair. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iv. 68 The Captain, Miller, and Blake, who had many notions as to the flooring, lines, and keel of a racing boat. 1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World i The polished oak flooring. b. A natural floor; a stratum. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum coursec1430 couch1661 stratum1671 dess1673 strata1676 bed1684 floor1692 flooring1697 stratificationa1703 rock1712 liea1728 lay-bed1728 post1794 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 57 To smooth the Surface of th' unequal Ground; Lest crack'd with Summer Heats the flooring flies. View more context for this quotation 1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. 47 The flooring of the Miami and Clay Rivers. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xxii. 428 Sandstone rock..forms the flooring of the country. 3. Malting. The operation of spreading the grain on the malt-floor, and treating it there in the required manner. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > malting > [noun] > spreading grain on floor flooring1839 couching1876 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 93 Malting..the couching, sweating, and flooring. 1885 H. Stopes Malt & Malting xix. 344 Flooring, this is also called spireing. 4. The action of knocking down or throwing to the ground. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [noun] > knocking or striking down striking1530 flooring1819 1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (ed. 3) Pref. p. xii Cross~buttocking..being as indispensable an ingredient, as nobbing, flooring, &c. Compounds C1. General attributive. flooring-beam n. ΚΠ 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. v. 89 Flooring-beams connect the walls of a skeleton building. flooring-board n. ΚΠ 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming vii. 95 So it will in Flooring-boards, notwithstanding they are nailed down ever so fast. 1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §173 Flooring boards 10s. per square. flooring-machine n. ΚΠ 1847 H. Howe Hist. Coll. Ohio 372 There are now in operation within the corporate limits..2 flooring machines. 1957 N.Z. Timber Jrnl. Mar. 52/1 Flooring machine, a machine for preparing floorboards. flooring-stone n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > for flooring > slab of flag1604 flooring-stone1671 flagstone1730 dalle1855 1671 J. Webster Metallographia vii. 117 Quarries of Stone..where they get flooring-stones for paving of houses. flooring-timber n. C2. flooring-clamp n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 889/1 Flooring-clamp, an implement for closing up the joints of flooring-boards. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1624 |
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