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floor (flôr)

noun

  1. the inside bottom surface of a room, hall, etc., on which one stands or walks
  2. the bottom surface of anything the ocean floor
  3. the platform of a bridge, pier, etc.
  4. a level or story in a building an office on the sixth floor
    1. the part of a legislative chamber, stock exchange, etc. occupied by the members and not including the gallery or platform
    2. such members as a group
  6. ☆ permission or the right to speak in an assembly to ask a chairman for the floor
  7. a lower limit set on anything, as by official regulation

Etymology: ME flor < OE, akin to Ger flur, a plain < IE base *plā-, broad, flat > plain

transitive verb

  1. to cover or furnish with a floor
  2. to knock down
  3. Informal
    1. to be the victor over; defeat
    2. to flabbergast; astound
  4. Informal to press down to the floor: often in the phrase floor it, to depress the accelerator of a vehicle to the floorboard in order to go as fast as possible
floor Idioms

from the floor

☆ Basketball
during the time of a game when active defense is permitted they shot 56% from the floor

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floor Synonyms

floor

n.

  1. The lower limit of a room

    floorboards, deck, flagstones, tiles, planking, parterre, ground, carpet, rug, linoleum, subfloor, platform.

  2. The space in a building between two floors

    story, stage, landing, level, flat, basement, cellar, ground floor, lower story, first floor, mezzanine, upper story, downstairs, upstairs, loft, attic, garret, penthouse.


floor

v.

  1. To knock down

    fell, bring down, bowl over; see fell.

  2. *To confound

    flabbergast, astound, dumbfound, nonplus; see confuse, surprise 1.


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floor Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • tile: Tiled floors apart from the wooden boarding beneath the choir stalls.

Preposition: with

  • effort.ideal: Call for our catalog and some advise or visit us at: www.kiwifencing.co.uk Kleanstone Sparkling floors with little effort.Ideal for natural stone flooring.

Adjective modifier

  • upper: The upper floor also benefits from a separate study room.

Modifies a noun

  • apartment: PROPERTY A second floor apartment within a substantial town center property.

Noun used with modifier

  • ground: Our office is located on the ground floor adjacent to the main road.
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floor quotes

Then up and started our gudewife, Gied three skips on the floor: 'Gudeman, ye've spoken the foremost word, Get up and bar the door.'

-Ballads

When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an attorney's firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle so carefullee That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

That isindeed verygood.Ishall havetorepeatthatonthe Golden Floor!

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

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