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Floor

//flɔː// noun, verb, slang

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Noun

1
The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room. countable
"The room has a wooden floor."
2
the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure) wordnet
3
The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
"The leaves covering the forest floor provide many hiding-places for small animals."
4
a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale wordnet
5
The ground. UK, colloquial, dialectal
"After stepping off the bus, my wallet fell on the floor."

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6
a large room in a exchange where the trading is done wordnet
7
A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
8
the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business wordnet
9
The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
"Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten."
10
the parliamentary right to address an assembly wordnet
11
A storey/story of a building. countable
"For years we lived on the third floor."
12
a lower limit wordnet
13
In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
14
the occupants of a floor wordnet
15
The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event. broadly
"Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?"
16
the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water wordnet
17
That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
18
the ground on which people and animals move about wordnet
19
A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
20
the lower inside surface of any hollow structure wordnet
21
The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
22
The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
"The floor of 4.5 is 4."
23
An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
24
A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
25
A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.
26
A dance floor.
"She's a maniac, maniac on the floor / And she's dancing like she never danced before"
27
The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
28
The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
"At each table stood a young, slim, poker-faced croupier serving the punters who anxiously watched the turning of the cards. The next two floors were similar though not quite as spectacular and the stakes were lower."
29
The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
"The conference started as an impromptu session in the coffee shop this morning when waitresses walked off the floor rather than serve four Negro men and women delegates."

Verb

1
To cover or furnish with a floor. transitive
"floor a house with pine boards"
2
knock down with force wordnet
3
To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
"Sam floored him perpetually, and beat his face to a jelly, without getting a scratch."
4
surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off wordnet
5
To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen. dated, informal

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6
To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate. slang, transitive
"our driver floored the pedal"
7
To silence by a conclusive answer or retort. informal, transitive
"floor an opponent"
8
To amaze or greatly surprise. informal, transitive
"We were floored by his confession."
9
To finish or make an end of. colloquial, transitive
"floor a college examination"
10
To set a lower bound.
"floored division"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English flor, flore, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement, ground, bottom”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“flat surface, floor, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Cognate with Scots flair, fluir (“floor”), Saterland Frisian Floor (“floor”), West Frisian flier (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Flur (“field, floor, entrance hall”), German Low German Floor (“entry hall”), Luxembourgish Flouer (“countryside, farmland”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish flor (“floor of a cow stall”), Irish urlár (“floor”), Scottish Gaelic làr (“floor, ground, earth”), Welsh llawr (“floor, ground”), Latin plānus (“level, flat”).

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