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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Floor \Floor\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Floored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flooring}.]
1. To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent.
Floored or crushed by him. --Coleridge.
3. To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination. [Colloq.]
I've floored my little-go work. --T. Hughes.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flooring \Floor"ing\, noun A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See {Floor}, noun --Addison.
2. Material for the construction of a floor or floors.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
flooring
noun
1: the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors" [syn: {floor}]
2: building material used in laying floors
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
83 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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