floor
Meaning of floor
noun
- The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
The room has a wooden floor.
- Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
- The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
- 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.
Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
- A storey/story of a building.
For years we lived on the third floor.
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
- That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- A horizontal, flat ore body.
- The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
The floor of 4.5 is 4.
- An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
- A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- 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 area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition
- To cover or furnish with a floor.
floor a house with pine boards
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- (driving) To accelerate rapidly.
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!
- To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge
- To amaze or greatly surprise.
We were floored by his confession.
- To finish or make an end of.
I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes
- To set a lower bound.
Information about floor
- The plural form of floor is: floors.
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Hyphenation of floor
floor
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- floor is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
floor synonyms
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Translation of floor
- German: Boden, Stock, Etage
- French: sol, plancher, étage
- Spanish: suelo, piso, planta, nivel
- Italian: pavimento, piano
- Portuguese: chão, andar
Anagrams of floor
Words that rhyme with floor
loor, cornfloor, refloor, seafloor, subfloor, underfloor, unfloor
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