Word Finder - flooring

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To cover or furnish with a floor.

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floor a house with pine boards

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To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.

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(driving) To accelerate rapidly.

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As soon as our driver saw an insurgent in a car holding a detonation device, he floored the pedal and was 2,000 feet away when that car bomb exploded. We escaped certain death in the nick of time!

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To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

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Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge

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To amaze or greatly surprise.

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We were floored by his confession.

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To finish or make an end of.

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I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes

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To set a lower bound.

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A floor.

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A material used to make floors.

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The act of putting one's opponent on the floor; a knockdown.

With vinyl or engineered wood flooring, you will need to add a stair nosing to finish off the steps.

The room was chilly, the marble flooring freezing.

The size of each dwelling is in some cases marked by boards resting edgeways on the platform, like the skirting boards over the flooring of the rooms in a modern house.

The walls were formed of split tree-trunks set upright and plastered with clay; and the flooring of similar timbers bedded in clay.

The weight of the bridge flooring depends on the type adopted.

There are double glazed French doors to the patio and garden, wall lights, television point, ceramic flooring and a telephone point.

The bridge flooring rests on the supporting members, and is of very various types according to the purpose of the bridge.

Bridges would then be designed for these selected loads, and the process would be safer in dealing with flooring girders and shearing forces than the assumption of a uniform load.

This increment is larger on the flooring girders than on the main ones, and on short main girders than on long ones.

Dead Load.-The dead load consists of the weight of main girders, flooring and wind-bracing.

Road bridges vary so much in the character of the flooring that no general rule can be given.

Let W 1 be the total live load, Wf the total flooring load on a bridge of span 1, both being considered for the present purpose to be uniform per ft.

The cost of abutments and bridge flooring is practically independent of the length of span adopted.

The soil of yards and the floors and walls of houses rapidly become contaminated, and the ideal condition would be to have an impermeable flooring covering the whole area, and supplied with suitable layers of sand, sawdust, peat-moss or other absorbent substances which can be changed at frequent intervals.

The height of pier from edge of flooring to spring of arch; was 28.7 ft., the spring of the arch being about the surface-level of maximum flood.

As originally designed, the flooring of the barrage from up-stream to downstream face was 111.50 ft.

This width of flooring was doubled to 223 ft., and along the upstream face a line of sheet piling was driven 16 ft.

All trees were long little thought of in comparison with the pine, but of late years poplar and spruce have proved of great value in the making of paper pulp, and hard-wood (oak, beech, ash, elm, certain varieties of maple) is becoming increasingly valuable for use in flooring and the making of furniture.

The spacing, or distance from centre to centre of the floor beams, will depend upon the type of fire-proof flooring employed; it also depends to a considerable extent upon the amount and character of the floor load and the length of span.

The flooring in your rented accommodation may differ from what you are used to.

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Sole UK supplier of solid wood pre-finished flooring, skirting boards architraves, and interior paneling.

Existing hard flooring such as PVC Composition tiles (including bitumen based ' Marley ' tiles) Tile may be left in place.

It has a bright spacious ambiance, natural pine flooring and furnishings set with silver cutlery and generous crystal wine glasses.

A good doormat in the hallway stops sand and moisture at your front door and keeps them away from your hardwood flooring.

For a hardwood flooring however, excessive dryness is more harmful than too much humidity.

Plastic floor tiles, cushion flooring, roofing felts, ropes, and blankets can also contain asbestos.

Some tenants are choosing to fit laminated flooring in their homes.

The spacious bedroom is twin bedded with reclaimed wooden flooring.

The pool had been covered over with carpeted flooring, apart from a glass rectangle through which the water glinted below.

The property boasts a good quality fitted kitchen which is complimented by a light and airy reception room having stripped wooden flooring.

Some laminate flooring, for example, does not cope too well with leaks.

Choir stalls on wooden block flooring, raised at rear.

There are two bedrooms, each with stripped pine flooring.

The garden room has Georgian style French doors offering views and leading to terrace, original polished wooden flooring and vaulted roofline.

Be careful not to stain the surface of the hardwood flooring with the glue.

To make safe exposed pin nails in vinyl flooring of upstairs bathroom.

The flat has been finished to a very high standard with oak flooring.

Archway leading through to the Dining Room which has modern style laminate flooring with UPVC French doors to rear garden.

A very contemporary yet cozy feel, with wooden and flagstone flooring, high back oak chairs and handcrafted tables around the Bar.

There is a full size integrated fridge freezer and oak effect laminated flooring.

Stone flagged floor with some concrete blocks for repairs; heating grilles; flush plank flooring beneath the benches.

Internal fittings include electric lighting, power points and heating and white PVC wall paneling and sheet vinyl flooring.

If the flooring has spillage marks or deep scratches then get these attended to as quickly as possible.

We work with a wide variety of flooring materials from epoxy resin coatings to high temperature steam cleanable polyurethane screeds.

I tried to scramble backward on all fours, but the stone flooring proved too slippery under the thick miry coating that covered it.

Quantity Surveyor Our client is a specialist subcontractor, specializing in the flooring sector of the industry.

A large tarpaulin placed underneath it before assembly will save your flooring.

The plates to strengthen the cross members of the flooring were given a coat of black topcoat.

Features include travertine tiled flooring and slate window sills.