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Floor

noun

1.

The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure). Synonym: flooring. "We spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent"

2.

A structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale. Synonyms: level, storey, story.

3.

A lower limit. Synonym: base.

4.

The ground on which people and animals move about.

5.

The bottom surface of any lake or other body of water.

6.

The lower inside surface of any hollow structure. "The floor of the cave"

7.

The occupants of a floor.

8.

The parliamentary right to address an assembly.

9.

The legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business.

10.

A large room in a exchange where the trading is done. Synonym: trading floor.

verb

(past & past part. floored; pres. part. flooring)

1.

Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off. Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, shock, take aback.

2.

Knock down with force. Synonyms: coldcock, deck, dump, knock down.

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"Floor" Quotes from Famous Books

... like a tower with many stories; some people inhabit the lower, others the higher ones. The inhabitants of the cellars and ground floor may, in their way, be good, decent, praiseworthy people, but they can never enjoy the same amount of light, the same pure air and wide view as those who live on the upper stories. Now you, my dear young friend, live several floors higher up than our good Paul Haber, ...

— The Malady of the Century • Max Nordau

... from the wall, and through the one small window in the west end of his room he saw the fading light of day outside. It was morning when he had fought Brokaw; it was now almost night. The wash-basin was where it had fallen when Henry struck him. He saw a red stain on the floor where he must have dropped. Then again he looked at the window. It was rather oddly out of place, so high up that one could not look in from the outside—a rectangular slit to let in light, and so narrow that a man could not have wormed his way through ...

— The Courage of Marge O'Doone • James Oliver Curwood

... recently to re-arrange my books, they lay in bewildering jumbled heaps upon my study floor; and, having in vain puzzled over this plan and that which should give the little collection a continuity such as it had never attained before, I at length gave it up in despair, and sat, with my head in my hands, hopeless. Presently I seemed to hear small voices talking in whispers, a curious ...

— Prose Fancies • Richard Le Gallienne

... to learn how to talk, so't I wouldn't haf to. I guess he represents my idees purty well, though, all except this political idee. I don't know about that. I aint quite made up my mind on that point. I guess I'd better leave the floor for ...

— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland

... across the floor, Turned amber from a yellow tree,— And there are yellow cups for four, And ...

— Ships in Harbour • David Morton

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