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单词 flooring
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flooringn.

Brit. /ˈflɔːrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈflɔrɪŋ/
Etymology: < floor v. + -ing suffix1.
The action of floor v.
1. The action of flooring or laying down a floor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. v. 89 Flooring-beams connect the walls of a skeleton building.
flooring-board n.
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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.
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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.
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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.).
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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).
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