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Floor   /flɔr/   Listen
noun
Floor  n.  
1.
The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.
2.
The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.
3.
The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.
4.
A story of a building. See Story.
5.
(Legislative Assemblies)
(a)
The part of the house assigned to the members.
(b)
The right to speak; as, the gentleman from Iowa has the floor. (U.S.) Note: Instead of he has the floor, the English say, he is in possession of the house.
6.
(Naut.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
7.
(Mining)
(a)
The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
(b)
A horizontal, flat ore body.
Floor cloth, a heavy fabric, painted, varnished, or saturated, with waterproof material, for covering floors; oilcloth.
Floor cramp, an implement for tightening the seams of floor boards before nailing them in position.
Floor light, a frame with glass panes in a floor.
Floor plan.
(a)
(Shipbuilding) A longitudinal section, showing a ship as divided at the water line.
(b)
(Arch.) A horizontal section, showing the thickness of the walls and partitions, arrangement of passages, apartments, and openings at the level of any floor of a house.


verb
Floor  v. t.  (past & past part. floored; pres. part. flooring)  
1.
To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
2.
To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent. "Floored or crushed by him."
3.
To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination. (Colloq.) "I've floored my little-go work."





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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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