floor

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floors

1.
(countable)The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
The room has a wooden floor.
2.
(geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) 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.
Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home.
The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been.
3.
(UK, colloquial, dialectal)The ground.
After stepping off the bus, my wallet fell on the floor.
4.
(construction, architecture) A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
5.
The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
6.
(countable)(architecture, countable) A storey/story of a building.
For years we lived on the third floor.
7.
In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
8.
(broadly)(by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?
The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
9.
(nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
10.
(mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
11.
(mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
12.
(mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
The floor of 4.5 is 4.

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verb

V_es/s

floors

V_ing/Gerund

flooring

V_ed/pp

floored

1.
(transitive)To cover or furnish with a floor.
floor a house with pine boards
2.
To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
3.
(dated, informal)To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
4.
(slang, transitive)(driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
our driver floored the pedal
I don't remember much about the flight from Chicago to Denver. We landed a little after eleven, and I ran through the airport, ran to my car. Floored it most of the way home.
5.
(informal, transitive)To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
floor an opponent
6.
(informal, transitive)(informal, transitive, usually passive voice) To amaze or greatly surprise.
We were floored by his confession.
7.
(colloquial, transitive)To finish or make an end of.
floor a college examination
8.
(mathematics) To set a lower bound.
floored division

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ine-pro Middle English floor, floour, flor, flore, flour, flur, vlor, from Old English flōr (floor, pavement; deck; gangplank), from *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (ground; floor), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (floor), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (flat). 2 cog Cognate with flair, fluir (floor), Floor, vloer, Flur, Vlǫǫr, Floor, Flouer;