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floored

[flawr, flohr] Origin

floor

[flawr, flohr]
noun
1.
that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
2.
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.
3.
a level, supporting surface in any structure: the elevator floor.
4.
one of two or more layers of material composing a floor: rough floor; finish floor.
5.
a platform or prepared level area for a particular use: a threshing floor.
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6.
the bottom of any more or less hollow place: the floor of a tunnel.
7.
a more or less flat extent of surface: the floor of the ocean.
8.
the part of a legislative chamber, meeting room, etc., where the members sit, and from which they speak.
9.
the right of one member to speak from such a place in preference to other members: The senator from Alaska has the floor.
10.
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.
13.
Mining. an underlying stratum, as of ore, usually flat.
14.
Nautical.
a.
the bottom of a hull.
b.
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.
c.
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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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)

floor·less, adjective
un·der·floor, noun
un·floor, verb (used with object)
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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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Slang Dictionary

floored definition


  1. mod.
    surprised. : You looked floored when I came in. Wasn't I invited?
  2. mod.
    knocked to the floor by a blow. : The guy was floored and didn't move a muscle—ever again.
  3. mod.
    alcohol intoxicated. : He's totally floored. Can't see a hole in a ladder.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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