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floor
[ flawr ]
noun
- that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
- a continuous, supporting surface extending horizontally throughout a building, having a number of rooms, apartments, or the like, and constituting one level or stage in the structure; story.
- a level, supporting surface in any structure:
the elevator floor.
- one of two or more layers of material composing a floor:
rough floor; finish floor.
- a platform or prepared level area for a particular use:
a threshing floor.
- the bottom of any more or less hollow place:
the floor of a tunnel.
- a more or less flat extent of surface:
the floor of the ocean.
- the part of a legislative chamber, meeting room, etc., where the members sit, and from which they speak.
- the right of one member to speak from such a place in preference to other members:
The senator from Alaska has the floor.
- the area of a floor, as in a factory or retail store, where items are actually made or sold, as opposed to offices, supply areas, etc.:
There are only two salesclerks on the floor.
- the main part of a stock or commodity exchange or the like, as distinguished from the galleries, platform, etc.
- the bottom, base, or minimum charged, demanded, or paid:
The government avoided establishing a price or wage floor.
- Mining. an underlying stratum, as of ore, usually flat.
- Nautical.
- the bottom of a hull.
- any of a number of deep, transverse framing members at the bottom of a steel or iron hull, generally interrupted by and joined to any vertical keel or keelsons.
- the lowermost member of a frame in a wooden vessel.
verb (used with object)
- to cover or furnish with a floor.
- to bring down to the floor or ground; knock down:
He floored his opponent with one blow.
- to overwhelm; defeat.
- to confound or puzzle; nonplus:
I was floored by the problem.
floor
/ flɔː /
noun
- Also calledflooring the inner lower surface of a room
- a storey of a building
the second floor
- a flat bottom surface in or on any structure
the floor of a lift
a dance floor
- the bottom surface of a tunnel, cave, river, sea, etc
- mining an underlying stratum
- nautical the bottom, or the lowermost framing members at the bottom, of a vessel
- that part of a legislative hall in which debate and other business is conducted
- the right to speak in a legislative or deliberative body (esp in the phrases get, have, or be given the floor )
- the room in a stock exchange where trading takes place
- the earth; ground
- a minimum price charged or paid
a wage floor
- take the floorto begin dancing on a dance floor
verb
- to cover with or construct a floor
- tr to knock to the floor or ground
- informal.tr to disconcert, confound, or defeat
to be floored by a problem
Other Words From
- floor·less adjective
- un·der·floor noun
- un·floor verb (used with object)
Word History and Origins
Origin of floor1
Word History and Origins
Origin of floor1
Idioms and Phrases
- mop / wipe the floor with, Informal. to overwhelm completely; defeat:
He expected to mop the floor with his opponents.
- take the floor, to arise to address a meeting.
More idioms and phrases containing floor
see ground floor ; mop up the floor with ; sink through the floor ; take the floor ; walk the floor .Example Sentences
Finally, installing data centers on the ocean floor is, surprisingly, much faster than building them on land.
At home, many kids have more freedom to lie on the floor, pace around, move to another room or take breaks as needed.
The guy is swatting layups every other time down the floor, it seems.
I think we’ve really reset our floor for what monthly success and targets look like.
Westbrook’s poor shooting and inability to space the floor can grind Houston’s offense to a halt.
It was a Senate floor soap opera over none other than a soap-opera producer.
When I saw the fire in the restaurant, I ran down to the floor below, where I was trapped between flames above and below.
Twin girls, Greta and Grace, run around the floor in circles, wearing pink playsuits with tiny pink wings attached.
Instead, most of the suffering species ate insects on the forest floor.
Its beautifully aged wooden exterior houses traditional floor seating and beautiful gardens typical of the area.
She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
The inner ends of the burrows were enlarged with a depression in the floor, where the eggs were laid.
Her feet felt rooted to the floor in the wonder and doubt of this strange occurrence.
Last night I saw Jean Baptiste lying prone upon the floor, and knew that she had beaten him down to it, and he had not resisted.
Several able speakers had made long addresses in support of the bill when one Mr. Morrisett, from Monroe, took the floor.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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