Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A floor.
  • noun Material, such as lumber or tile, used in making floors.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A floor; floors collectively.
  • noun Materials used in the construction of floors.
  • noun In brewing, the operation of spreading the grain thinly on the malt-floor, and turning it over carefully several times a day to keep it at the temperature of about 62° F., and thus to check germination.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See floor, n.
  • noun Material for the construction of a floor or floors.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A floor.
  • noun A material used to make floors.
  • noun sports The act of putting one's opponent on the floor.
  • verb Present participle of to floor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun building material used in laying floors
  • noun the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)

Etymologies

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From Middle English floring

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