floor

A1
Pronunciation
/flɔː/
/flɔɹ/
Noun
17 definition(s)
1 Definition

The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.

Example Sentences
  • The room has a wooden floor.
2 Definition

Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).

3 Definition

The lower inside surface of a hollow space.

Example Sentences
  • Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
4 Definition

A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.

5 Definition

The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.

Example Sentences
  • Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
6 Definition

A storey/story of a building.

Example Sentences
  • For years we lived on the third floor.
7 Definition

In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.

8 Definition

Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.

Example Sentences
  • The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
9 Definition

That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

10 Definition

The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

11 Definition

A horizontal, flat ore body.

12 Definition

The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.

Example Sentences
  • The floor of 4.5 is 4.
13 Definition

An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.

14 Definition

A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.

15 Definition

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.

16 Definition

A dance floor.

17 Definition

The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition

Verb
7 definition(s)
1 Definition

To cover or furnish with a floor.

Example Sentences
  • floor a house with pine boards
2 Definition

To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.

3 Definition

(driving) To accelerate rapidly.

Example Sentences
  • As soon as our driver saw an insurgent in a car holding a detonation device, he floored the pedal and was 2,000 feet away when that car bomb exploded. We escaped certain death in the nick of time!
4 Definition

To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

Example Sentences
  • Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge
5 Definition

To amaze or greatly surprise.

Example Sentences
  • We were floored by his confession.
6 Definition

To finish or make an end of.

Example Sentences
  • I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes
7 Definition

To set a lower bound.