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Floor   /flɔr/   Listen
Floor

noun
1.
The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure).  Synonym: flooring.  "We spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent"
2.
A structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale.  Synonyms: level, storey, story.
3.
A lower limit.  Synonym: base.
4.
The ground on which people and animals move about.
5.
The bottom surface of any lake or other body of water.
6.
The lower inside surface of any hollow structure.  "The floor of the cave"
7.
The occupants of a floor.
8.
The parliamentary right to address an assembly.
9.
The legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business.
10.
A large room in a exchange where the trading is done.  Synonym: trading floor.
verb
(past & past part. floored; pres. part. flooring)
1.
Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off.  Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, shock, take aback.
2.
Knock down with force.  Synonyms: coldcock, deck, dump, knock down.



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"Floor" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hooper here, too!" shouted Skeets. But in trying to rise to make herself heard, she upset her chair and then sat down on the floor, jarring the building. When the shout of mirth ...
— Radio Boys Cronies • Wayne Whipple and S. F. Aaron
... being out of the question in two feet of water. She brought a short ladder, and in another moment first one nymph and then the other came up from their fountain, and dripped little rivers on the floor. ...
— Peggy • Laura E. Richards
... the Belgian Red Cross hospital to-night. Have had supper and have been given a room on the top floor, facing ...
— Kings, Queens And Pawns - An American Woman at the Front • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... every movement heard on distant floor, Hoping 'twas her, Rogero raised his head: He thinks he hears; but it is heard no more, Then sighs at his mistake: ofttimes from bed He issued, and undid his chamber door, And peeped abroad, but still no better sped; And cursed ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto
... all still and quiet upon the ground floor. In the kitchen a kettle was singing on the fire, and a large black cat lay coiled up in the basket; but there was no sign of the woman whom I had seen before. I ran into the other room, but it was equally deserted. Then I rushed up the stairs, ...
— Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


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