Definitions for floor

Definitions for (noun) floor

Main entry: floor, flooring

Definition: the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)

Usage: they needed rugs to cover the bare floors; we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent


Main entry: floor, level, storey, story

Definition: a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale

Usage: what level is the office on?


Main entry: trading floor, floor

Definition: a large room in a exchange where the trading is done

Usage: he is a floor trader


Main entry: floor

Definition: the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business

Usage: there was a motion from the floor


Main entry: floor

Definition: the parliamentary right to address an assembly

Usage: the chairman granted him the floor


Main entry: base, floor

Definition: a lower limit

Usage: the government established a wage floor


Main entry: floor

Definition: the occupants of a floor

Usage: the whole floor complained about the lack of heat


Main entry: floor

Definition: the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water


Main entry: floor

Definition: the ground on which people and animals move about

Usage: the fire spared the forest floor


Main entry: floor

Definition: the lower inside surface of any hollow structure

Usage: the floor of the pelvis; the floor of the cave


Definitions for (verb) floor

Main entry: floor, knock down, deck, dump, coldcock

Definition: knock down with force

Usage: He decked his opponent


Main entry: blow out of the water, ball over, shock, floor, take aback

Definition: surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off

Usage: I was floored when I heard that I was promoted


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