floor

Meaning of floor

noun
  1. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
    The room has a wooden floor.
  2. Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
  3. The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
    Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
  4. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
  5. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
    Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
  6. A storey/story of a building.
    For years we lived on the third floor.
  7. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
  8. Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
    The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
  9. That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
  10. The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
  11. A horizontal, flat ore body.
  12. The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
    The floor of 4.5 is 4.
  13. An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
  14. A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
  15. 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.
  16. A dance floor.
  17. The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition
verb
  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.
  3. (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!
  4. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
    Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge
  5. To amaze or greatly surprise.
    We were floored by his confession.
  6. To finish or make an end of.
    I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes
  7. 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

Meaning flooring:

flooring

Meaning level:

level, storey, story

Meaning base:

base

Meaning shock:

shock, stun

Meaning deck:

deck, coldcock, dump

Meaning :

possession

floor antonyms

Meaning :

ceiling

Translation of floor

Anagrams of floor

Floro, Forlo

Words that rhyme with floor

loor, cornfloor, refloor, seafloor, subfloor, underfloor, unfloor

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