Floor definition
The definition of floor is the bottom surface of a room, the bottom of something, or a level in a building.
An example of a floor is the bottom surface of a kitchen.
An example of a floor is the lowest price that will be charged.
An example of a floor is the level in a building; the fifth floor.
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The ground or lowermost surface, as of a forest or ocean.
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Floor is defined as to cover with a bottom surface, or to press down or astound someone.
An example of floor is to put down a new carpet in a room.
An example of floor is to push the car accelerator as far down as possible.
An example of floor is to surprise someone, knocking him down in the process.
verb
The part of a room or building where the principal business or work takes place, especially:
- The area of an exchange where securities are traded.
- The part of a retail store in which merchandise is displayed and sales are made.
- The area of a factory where the product is manufactured or assembled.
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A lower limit or base.
A pricing floor; a bidding floor.
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The surface of a room on which one stands.
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The lower or supporting surface of a structure.
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A story or level of a building.
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The occupants of such a story.
The entire floor complained about the noise.
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A level surface or area used for a specified purpose.
A dance floor; a threshing floor.
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(basketball) The court viewed as the playing area for taking free throws, in contrast to the foul line.
The forwards made only six shots from the floor.
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The part of a legislative chamber or meeting hall where members are seated and from which they speak.
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The right to address an assembly, as granted under parliamentary procedure.
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The body of assembly members.
A motion from the floor.
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To knock down.
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To stun; overwhelm.
The very idea floored me.
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The bottom surface of anything.
The ocean floor.
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The platform of a bridge, pier, etc.
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Permission or the right to speak in an assembly.
To ask a chairman for the floor.
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A lower limit set on anything, as by official regulation.
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The part of a legislative chamber, stock exchange, etc. occupied by the members and not including the gallery or platform.
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Such members as a group.
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That portion of a ballroom, nightclub, etc. on which the patrons dance.
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That portion of a casino where patrons gamble.
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To cover or furnish with a floor.
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To knock down.
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(informal) To press down to the floor.
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To be the victor over; defeat.
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To flabbergast; astound.
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The main trading area of a stock, futures, or options exchange.
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A minimum price level received by the seller in a financial transaction.
The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.
The room has a wooden floor.
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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.
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The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
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In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
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Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?
The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
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(nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
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(mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
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(mining) A horizontal, flat ore body.
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(finance) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
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To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
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The surface of a structure on which vehicles travel.
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To provide with a floor.
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(informal) To press (the accelerator of a motor vehicle) to the floor.
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The inside bottom surface of a room, hall, etc., on which one stands or walks.
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A level or story in a building.
An office on the sixth floor.
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The part of a factory, store, etc. where the main activity of the business takes place.
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(basketball) from the floor
- during the time of a game when active defense is permittedThe team shot 56% from the floor.
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
from the floor
Origin of floor
- Middle English flor from Old English flōr pelə-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement, ground, bottom”), from Proto-Germanic *flōrō, *flōrô, *flōraz (“flat surface, floor, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *plõro- (“level, even”), from Proto-Indo-European *pele-, *plet-, *plāk- (“broad, flat, plain”). Cognate with West Frisian flier (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Flur (“field, floor, entrance hall”), Swedish flor (“floor of a cow stall”), Irish urlár (“floor”), Scottish Gaelic làr (“floor, ground, earth”), Welsh llawr (“ground, pavement”), Latin plānus (“level, flat”).
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