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Definition floor

Etymology

From Middle English flor, flore, from Old English fl?r (“floor, pavement, ground, bottom”), from Proto-Germanic *fl?r?, *fl?rô, *fl?raz (“flat surface, floor, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?- (“flat”). Cognate with West Frisian flier (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Flur (“field, floor, entrance hall”), Swedish flor (“floor of a cow stall”), Irish urlár (“floor”), Scottish Gaelic làr (“floor, ground, earth”), Welsh llawr (“floor, ground”), Latin pl?nus (“level, flat”).

Noun

floor (plural floors)

1. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
2. Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
3. The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
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.
6. A storey/story of a building.
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.
9. (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
10. (mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
11. (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body.
12. (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
13. (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
14. (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
15. (finance) 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

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

1. To cover or furnish with a floor.
2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
3. (driving, slang) To accelerate rapidly.
4. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
5. To amaze or greatly surprise.
6. (colloquial) To finish or make an end of.
7. (mathematics) To set a lower bound.

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