floor
IPA: fɫˈɔr
noun
- The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
- (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.
- (construction, architecture) A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- (architecture) A storey/story of a building.
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- (by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
- (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
- (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- (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.
- A dance floor.
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
- The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
- The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
verb
- (transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- (informal, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
- (driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
- (informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
- (informal, transitive) To amaze or greatly surprise.
- (colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
- (mathematics) To set a lower bound.
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Examples of "floor" in Sentences
- On the main floor is a narrow foyer, a pretty living area, and a small kitchen.
- St. Petersburg, every seat on the main floor is hereditary, it cannot be bought or sold.
- The spirit room on the main floor is just ridiculous, unless you like triangles and darkness.
- *Throws self in da floor, bangs head against da floor* Dew wii haz ennifng tu make hubbikat’s shut up bout wurk?
- The main floor has a long oval bar down the middle, and the top floor, overlooking the main floor is the dining area.
- The biggest problem with people our age is the fact that it is on a hill, and that one has to walk up one floor from the parking area to the main floor, and another to the bedrooms.
- 'A clean floor is _so_ comfortable, 'she would say sometimes, by way of twitting; till at last I told her that I thought we had had talk enough about the _floor_, we would now have a touch at the
- And there's terminology that will have to shift -- not only are "timprov's room" and "timprov's bathroom" completely different places than they used to be, "the downstairs bathroom" no longer works now that the main floor is not, in fact, "the downstairs."
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