floor

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.2.1 Homophones 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Antonyms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 Related terms

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[edit] Etymology

Old English flōr. Cognate with Dutch vloer, German Flur ‘field, floor, entrance hall’, Swedish flor ‘floor of a cow stall’. Perhaps related to Irish urlár, Gaelic làr ‘floor, ground, earth’, Welsh llawr.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: flô, IPA: /flɔː/, SAMPA: /flO:/
• (US) flôr, /floʊr/, /flɔːr/, /flO:r/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔː(r)

[edit] Homophones

• flaw (in non-rhotic accents)

[edit] Noun

floor (plural floors)

1. The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.

   The room has a wooden floor.

2. The lower inside surface of a hollow space.

   Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.

   The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home.

   (archaeology) The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been.

3. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
4. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.

   Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.

5. A storey/story of a building.

   For years we lived on the third floor.

6. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
7. (US) Hence, the right to speak at a given time in a legislative assembly.

   Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?

   The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.

8. (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
9. (mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
10. (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body.
11. (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.

    The floor of 4.5 is 4.

12. (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.

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• (right to speak): possession (UK)

[edit] Antonyms

• ceiling

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[edit] Verb

to floor (third-person singular simple present floors, present participle flooring, simple past and past participle floored)

1. To cover or furnish with a floor.

   floor a house with pine boards

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

   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!

3. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

   floor an opponent

   Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge

4. To amaze or greatly surprise.

   We were floored by his confession.

5. (colloquial) To finish or make an end of.

   floor a college examination

   I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes

[edit] Translations

[edit] Related terms

• back to the floor
• dance floor
• floor cloth
• floor cramp
• floor heating
• floor light
• flooring
• floor plan
• ground floor, first floor, second floor, etc.
• thirteenth floor
• mezzanine floor, mezzanine
• ocean floor
• shop floor
• take the floor
• top floor
• trading floor