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say it: FLAW-ring
flooring is a noun meaning "the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)". It is pronounced /ˈflɔɹɪŋ/ — FLAW-ring. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)
“they needed rugs to cover the bare floors”
“we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent”
building material used in laying floors
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for flooring come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.