floor

  • (noun): The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
  • (noun): Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
  • (noun): The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
  • (noun): A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
  • (noun): The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
  • (noun): A storey/story of a building.
  • (noun): In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
  • (noun): Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
  • (noun): That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
  • (noun): The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
  • (noun): A horizontal, flat ore body.
  • (noun): The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
  • (noun): An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
  • (noun): A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
  • (noun): 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.
  • (noun): A dance floor.
  • (noun): The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition
  • (verb): To cover or furnish with a floor.
  • (verb): To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
  • (verb): (driving) To accelerate rapidly.
  • (verb): To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
  • (verb): To amaze or greatly surprise.
  • (verb): To finish or make an end of.
  • (verb): To set a lower bound.
  • The room has a wooden floor.
  • Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
  • Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
  • For years we lived on the third floor.
  • The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.