Floor
WordNet
noun
(1) The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway)
"They needed rugs to cover the bare floors"
(2) A structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
"What level is the office on?"
(3) A large room in a stock exchange where the trading is done
"He is a floor trader"
(4) The legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business
"There was a motion from the floor"
(5) The parliamentary right to address an assembly
"The chairman granted him the floor"
(6) A lower limit
"The government established a wage floor"
(7) The occupants of a floor
"The whole floor complained about the lack of heat"
(8) The bottom surface of any a cave or lake etc.
(9) The ground on which people and animals move about
"The fire spared the forest floor"
verb
(10) Knock down with force
"He decked his opponent"
(11) Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
"I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
WiktionaryText
English
Etymology
Old English flōr. Cognate with Dutch vloer, German Flur ‘field, floor, entrance hall’, Swedish flor ‘floor of a cow stall’. Perhaps related to Irish urlár, Gaelic làr ‘floor, ground, earth’, Welsh llawr.
Noun
- The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.
- The room has a wooden floor.
- The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
- 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.
- A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
- A storey/story of a building.
- For years we lived on the third floor.
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- Hence, the right to speak at a given time in a legislative assembly.
- Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?
- The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
- That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- A horizontal, flat ore body.
- The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- The floor of 4.5 is 4.
- An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
Verb
- To cover or furnish with a floor.
- floor a house with pine boards
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- 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!
- To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
- floor an opponent
- Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge
- To amaze or greatly surprise.
- We were floored by his confession.
- To finish or make an end of.
- floor a college examination
- I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes
Related terms
- back to the floor
- dance floor
- floor cloth
- floor cramp
- floor heating
- floor light
- flooring
- floor plan
- ground floor, first floor, second floor, etc.
- thirteenth floor
- mezzanine floor, mezzanine
- ocean floor
- shop floor
- take the floor
- top floor
- trading floor