What is "flooring"

Floor \Floor\, v. t. [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.

Flooring \Floor"ing\, n. A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n.
--Addison.

2. Material for the construction of a floor or floors.

"materials of a floor," 1620s, verbal noun from floor (v.).

n. A floor. vb. Present participle of ''to floor''.

1. n. 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

Flooring is the general term for a permanent covering of a floor, or for the work of installing such a floor covering. Floor covering is a term to generically describe any finish material applied over a floor structure to provide a walking surface. Both terms are used interchangeably but floor covering refers more to loose-laid materials.

Materials almost always classified as floor covering include carpet, area rugs, and resilient flooring such as linoleum or vinyl flooring. Materials commonly called flooring include wood flooring, ceramic tile, stone, terrazzo, and various seamless chemical floor coatings.