Pavement vs. Flooring — What's the Difference?

A hard smooth surface, especially of a public area or thoroughfare, that will bear travel.

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.

The material with which such a surface is made.

A floor.

Chiefly British A sidewalk.

Material, such as lumber or tile, used in making floors.

A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground.

A floor.

A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.

A material used to make floors.

A paving (paved part) of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway or road surface.

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

The paved part of an area other than a road or sidewalk, such as a cobblestone plaza, asphalt schoolyard or playground, or parking lot.

Present participle of floor

(architecture) The interior flooring of a church sanctuary, between the communion rail and the altar.

Material for the construction of a floor or floors.

That with which anything is paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.

The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway);

To furnish with a pavement; to pave.

Building material used in laying floors

The paved surface of a thoroughfare

Material used to pave an area

Walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway