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Floor   /flɔr/   Listen
noun
Floor  n.  
1.
The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.
2.
The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.
3.
The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.
4.
A story of a building. See Story.
5.
(Legislative Assemblies)
(a)
The part of the house assigned to the members.
(b)
The right to speak; as, the gentleman from Iowa has the floor. (U.S.) Note: Instead of he has the floor, the English say, he is in possession of the house.
6.
(Naut.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
7.
(Mining)
(a)
The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
(b)
A horizontal, flat ore body.
Floor cloth, a heavy fabric, painted, varnished, or saturated, with waterproof material, for covering floors; oilcloth.
Floor cramp, an implement for tightening the seams of floor boards before nailing them in position.
Floor light, a frame with glass panes in a floor.
Floor plan.
(a)
(Shipbuilding) A longitudinal section, showing a ship as divided at the water line.
(b)
(Arch.) A horizontal section, showing the thickness of the walls and partitions, arrangement of passages, apartments, and openings at the level of any floor of a house.


verb
Floor  v. t.  (past & past part. floored; pres. part. flooring)  
1.
To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
2.
To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent. "Floored or crushed by him."
3.
To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination. (Colloq.) "I've floored my little-go work."





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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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