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floor

[flawr, flohr]

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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.

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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.

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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.

11.

the main part of a stock or commodity exchange or the like, as distinguished from the galleries, platform, etc.

12.

the bottom, base, or minimum charged, demanded, or paid: The government avoided establishing a price or wage floor.

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Mining. an underlying stratum, as of ore, usually flat.

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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.

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verb (used with object)

15.

to cover or furnish with a floor.

16.

to bring down to the floor or ground; knock down: He floored his opponent with one blow.

17.

to overwhelm; defeat.

18.

to confound or puzzle; nonplus: I was floored by the problem.

19.

Also, floorboard. to push (a foot-operated accelerator pedal) all the way down to the floor of a vehicle, for maximum speed or power.

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Idioms

20.

mop

wipe the floor with, Informal. to overwhelm completely; defeat: He expected to mop the floor with his opponents.

21.

take the floor, to arise to address a meeting.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English flor, Old English flōr; cognate with Old Norse flōr, Middle Low German vlōr, Middle High German vluor (German Flur)

Related forms

floor·less, adjective

un·der·floor, noun

un·floor, verb (used with object)

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Example Sentences

For a comfortable temperature underfoot, heating elements can be placed under a floor.

The fifth floor is nothing compared to the truly high dwelling, however.

Two of the switches do nothing, but one of them controls a bulb on the second floor.

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For a comfortable temperature underfoot, heating elements can be placed under a floor.

The fifth floor is nothing compared to the truly high dwelling, however.

Two of the switches do nothing, but one of them controls a bulb on the second floor.

Related to shrimp and crabs, the giant isopod is a deep-sea crustacean that makes its home on the ocean floor.

The ocean floor will have to house recovery complexes and the hydrocarbons may have to be transported to land via pipeline.

He quipped that he could get falling-down drunk without harm, being so close to the floor.

Click next to step inside with a room-by-room tour plus view the home's floor plans.

And in the past year, he has almost single-handedly ignited the current rush to mine mineral deposits on the ocean floor.

Other times it means washing toddler vomit off the floor mats in the car.

For indoor heating, a low-voltage supply connected to a conductive concrete floor makes the whole floor act as a radiator.

The ocean floor could provide storage for more excess carbon dioxide than the world can ever produce, scientists say.

By eating the little critters zooplankton prevent the carbon they contain from reaching the ocean floor.

It isn't the vast factory floor of the past, but it is still built for speed.

The warmth of the tiled floor repeats in the sprouting section of timber bamboo placed in one corner.

Some, for instance, may prefer the earthiness of a mud floor to the coldness of a concrete one.

Some measure less than a few feet across but drop several hundred feet to the floor.

Three men in bleached garments are cowering on the bare floor.

The exhibit case can be seen in the first floor fossil halls.

See the floor plan of this inspirational prefab next.

And in many parts of the world, the sixth floor is as high as the local fire-engines can reach.

Kelty footprints extend the life of your tent's floor by protecting it from rough and abrasive surfaces.

The remarkably smooth valley floor was later flooded by basaltic lava.

First floor is geared to the younger child and the second floor is for those that are a bit older.

Individual concrete pads create the illusion that they're hovering lightly above the desert floor.

The majority of votes from the floor continue to oppose the motion.

Kelty footprints extend the life of your tents floor by protecting it from rough and abrasive surfaces.

Also apply around the legs of the bed, where they touch the floor.

Soon, there were other rooms adjoining the old travel trailer, then a second story with a patio and tiny third floor.

Positioning the table close to the side wall makes it possible to save floor space in the middle of the room.

There will be many valuable, interesting and pithy contributions from the floor.

Touring floor maps bring memorable education to students.

Don`t let sheets touch the floor or let the bed touch the walls.

The top floor opens to a balcony shaded by a red-and-yellow awning suspended on metal brackets.

When the family was allowed to remain together, even the cold jail floor felt good, he recalls.

He surveyed each site for earthworms and ferns and measured the thickness of the forest floor.

Few people will find delight in the dredge that is hauled from the ocean floor.

Board-formed concrete and a stone floor accentuate the rugged outdoor theme.

Looking up from a rain forest floor shows openings where sunlight gets through.

My overuse of apologies once caused my roommate to unintentionally fling me on the floor of a restaurant.

Featherston uses an oscillating fan, and wets the gravel floor with a hose for evaporative cooling.

To catch these fish, gray seals swim close to the ocean floor and dig their snouts into the sand to find hiding fish.

Additionally, tractors and skidders used to remove the hardwoods destroy the forest floor and promote additional logging.

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Some of her white peers looked away, some down to the floor.

It's a test of faith-but no one has better credentials to navigate the floor of an erupting volcano.

Survey reveals wealth of important metals in ocean floor mud.

The ground floor promotes communal living, while the second.

If the floor doesn't push on you at all, you feel weightless.

But there is one thing they do possess: floor plans, most.

For years she has studied here, on the second floor of the row house she shares with her husband.

Wonderful job by the moderator in distilling the different viewpoints from the protagonists, guests and the floor.

Both species of sea turtle dive and find their food at the ocean floor in shallow waters, but they then surface to breathe.

Embers and scraps of molten bronze skitter onto the concrete floor of an open-air shed housing the furnace.

In a nod to the past, a driveway-size band of concrete still runs through the middle, now serving as the floor of the foyer.

The image above shows a dune field on the floor of a crater made by an asteroid impact.

Taking as many items as possible off the floor is a key.

But as young adults, they must make a precarious journey across the mostly flat ocean floor to reach their spawning grounds.

Quite a few of the comments from the floor have been critical of it for being too black-and-white:.

She did not shift her feet during the recital-perhaps because the old wooden floor planks could creak loudly.

Leave the optional floor at home to cut weight, and stake all eight corners in warm, soft sand.

When you come back: bye bye roaches, and they are nice enough to go and die in the foundation and not on the kitchen floor.

Then draw a floor plan of the subway station, showing where you will place everything.

Louis, found the oldest complete section of oceanic sea floor on the planet last summer.

It was an ornate space, with a decorated ceiling and red tiled floor.

The new master bedroom and bath on the top floor overlook the rear garden.

And a trading floor could be more effective than paying off a snitch.

Sitting on the floor of a darkened hallway, hoping in vain that a professor would show up for his office hours.

And in the largest room the electrical sockets in the floor sit in serried ranks awaiting contact.

There was never enough time to look into these or to go as far along the ocean floor as everyone wanted.

It would also require that models comply with the dress code before returning to the floor.

Then the phone rang, and my heart leapt out of my chest and skittered across the living-room floor.

The vapor then sparks golf-ball-size orbs of ball lightning that bounce across the laboratory floor.

Pit houses dug halfway in the ground, their roofs caved in, dotted the valley floor and surrounding hills.

There is one other thing that fell on the floor of editing.

They had a weird set up for those and you had to know which ones went to your floor.

Cold seep communities thrive on cooler, mineralized water leaking from the muddy sea floor.

Now add to this going vertical on each floor and you'll have the right numbers for profitability.

Workers will remove the marble panels that currently block the view to the museum's third floor.

Twisted rebar, concrete, and splintered furniture lay scattered across the floor of this room.

It was also announced that other people who work on that floor would be treated with antibiotics as a precaution.

Floor sensors track human movement, video cameras detect faces and gestures, and microphones pick up speech.

The black, white and crimson squares of the museum floor are awash in yellow electric cables as thick as your thumb.

Views of the valley floor reveal a desert cloaked in green.

On the upper floor is a room-sized scale dominated by a wheel fabricated of milled aluminum.

McBeath had to sleep on the floor at first, because the dormitories were being renovated.

The ground floor was a stable in which he quartered his mule, a cow, and a few scrawny chickens.

We have repurposed a coat closet in the front hall into a pantry and much of our cookware sits on the floor in the dining room.

Its floor is covered in crystalline, perfectly faceted blocks.

They adapted by having squares flood, by having stairs under water by having the first floor of many buildings flood.

The layer of glacial debris left behind on the ocean floor was covered by another layer of carbonate.

You're sure to find a floor that meets your color and design needs, manufactured with the latest technology.

The mega map occupies a large wall, or can be used on the floor.

Before the remodel, the home's confusing floor plan.

At last a glimpse of a forest dance floor reveals a weird, obsessive performance.

From floor to canopy, the tropical forest is crawling with.

Solar-heated water circulates in a radiant-heat floor that is further warmed by winter sun.

The boat's drill spun deeper and deeper into the ocean floor.

But the heel of his shoe turns under, spilling him onto the dance floor.

The pale gray concrete floor tiles feature pewter floral insets.

Sand any wood that will be seen or that will be used for a decorative finish, such as a table or wood floor.

People are still pushing into the room, filling the chairs and settling themselves cross-legged on the floor.

The gradient of the river-how quickly it drops-helps define the steepness of the sides and the width of the floor.

He built the deck off the back of the house to step down toward the valley floor.

Walls and the concrete floor were repaired and cleaned.

In the open floor plan, the consistent palette helps unify each space.

Crisp blue and warm camel offer clean contrast to the checkerboard floor.

The wicker coffee table was a discounted floor sample.

Instead of cutting off the leftover rope, they coiled it into a floor mat.

All the action happens in one spacious room on the main floor of this eco-friendly cabin.

Mahogany cabinetry and cork floor tiles add warmth to the kitchen.

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World English Dictionary

floor (flɔː)

—n
1.	Also called: flooring the inner lower surface of a room
2.	a storey of a building: the second floor
3.	a flat bottom surface in or on any structure: the floor of a lift; a dance floor
4.	the bottom surface of a tunnel, cave, river, sea, etc
5.	mining an underlying stratum
6.	nautical the bottom, or the lowermost framing members at the bottom, of a vessel
7.	that part of a legislative hall in which debate and other business is conducted
8.	the right to speak in a legislative or deliberative body (esp in the phrases get, have, or be given the floor)
9.	the room in a stock exchange where trading takes place
10.	the earth; ground
11.	a minimum price charged or paid: a wage floor
12.	take the floor to begin dancing on a dance floor

—vb
13.	to cover with or construct a floor
14.	(tr) to knock to the floor or ground
15.	informal (tr) to disconcert, confound, or defeat: to be floored by a problem

[Old English flōr; related to Old Norse flōrr, Middle Low German vlōr floor, Latin plānus level, Greek planan to cause to wander]

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Word Origin & History

floor

O.E. flor "floor," from P.Gmc. *floruz "floor" (cf. M.Du. vloer, O.N. flor "floor," M.H.G. vluor, Ger. Flur "field, meadow"), from PIE *plaros (cf. Welsh llawr "ground"), enlarged from *pele- "flat, to spread." The verbal sense of "puzzle, confound" is 1830, from notion of "knock down to the floor" (1640s).

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Related: Floored; flooring. The figurative sense in legislative assemblies is first recorded 1774. Floor plan attested from 1867.

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Idioms & Phrases

floor

see ground floor; mop up the floor with; sink through the floor; take the floor; walk the floor.