'Floor' definitions:
Definition of 'floor'
From: WordNet
noun
The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent" [syn: floor, flooring]
noun
A structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?" [syn: floor, level, storey, story]
noun
A lower limit; "the government established a wage floor" [syn: floor, base]
noun
The ground on which people and animals move about; "the fire spared the forest floor"
noun
The bottom surface of any lake or other body of water
noun
The lower inside surface of any hollow structure; "the floor of the pelvis"; "the floor of the cave"
noun
The occupants of a floor; "the whole floor complained about the lack of heat"
noun
The parliamentary right to address an assembly; "the chairman granted him the floor"
noun
The legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business; "there was a motion from the floor"
noun
A large room in a exchange where the trading is done; "he is a floor trader" [syn: floor, trading floor]
verb
Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted" [syn: shock, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback]
verb
Definition of 'Floor'
From: GCIDE
- Floor \Floor\ (fl[=o]r), n. [AS. fl[=o]r; akin to D. vloer, G. flur field, floor, entrance hall, Icel. fl[=o]r floor of a cow stall, cf. Ir. & Gael. lar floor, ground, earth, W. llawr, perh. akin to L. planus level. Cf. Plain smooth.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A story of a building. See Story. [1913 Webster]
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- Note: Instead of he has the floor, the English say, he is in possession of the house. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Naut.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Mining) (a) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. (b) A horizontal, flat ore body. --Raymond. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Floor'
From: GCIDE
- Floor \Floor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Floored; p. pr. & vb. n. Flooring.]
- 1. To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Floored or crushed by him. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- I've floored my little-go work. --T. Hughes. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'floor'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- addle,
- agora,
- amaze,
- amphitheater,
- answer,
- answer conclusively,
- arena,
- argue down,
- asphalt,
- astonish,
- astound,
- athletic field,
- auditorium,
- background,
- baffle,
- balcony,
- bamboozle,
- band,
- base,
- basement,
- basin,
- basis,
- bear garden,
- bearing wall,
- beat,
- bed,
- bedding,
- bedrock,
- belt,
- best,
- bewilder,
- billiard table,
- blacktop,
- blow down,
- blow over,
- boarding,
- boggle,
- border line,
- bottom,
- bottom price,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- bowl,
- bowl down,
- bowl over,
- bowling green,
- boxing ring,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- bring down,
- buffalo,
- bull ring,
- bulldog,
- business index,
- campus,
- canvas,
- carpet,
- cast down,
- catafalque,
- causeway,
- ceiling,
- ceiling price,
- cement,
- channel,
- chop down,
- circumscription,
- circus,
- clerestory,
- cobblestone,
- cockpit,
- coliseum,
- colosseum,
- compass,
- concrete,
- confine,
- confound,
- confuse,
- confute,
- conquer,
- consumer price index,
- contradict,
- controvert,
- cost-of-living index,
- couche,
- coulee,
- course,
- cover,
- crush,
- cut down,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- dais,
- dash down,
- daze,
- dead flat,
- dead level,
- deadline,
- deck,
- defeat,
- delimitation,
- demand curve,
- demolish,
- deny,
- destroy,
- determinant,
- disconcert,
- dismiss,
- dispose of,
- division line,
- down,
- drop,
- drub,
- dumbfound,
- earth,
- emplacement,
- end,
- entresol,
- esplanade,
- estrade,
- extremity,
- fell,
- fetch down,
- field,
- finish,
- first floor,
- flag,
- flat,
- flatland,
- flatten,
- floor covering,
- floor price,
- flooring,
- fond,
- footing,
- forum,
- foundation,
- frontier,
- fuddle,
- fundament,
- fundamental,
- gallery,
- get,
- ground,
- ground floor,
- grounds,
- groundwork,
- gym,
- gymnasium,
- hall,
- hardpan,
- hedge,
- heliport,
- hew down,
- high-water mark,
- hippodrome,
- homaloid,
- horizontal,
- horizontal axis,
- horizontal fault,
- horizontal line,
- horizontal parallax,
- horizontal plane,
- horizontal projection,
- hustings,
- inflation,
- inflationary spiral,
- interface,
- keep in suspense,
- knock down,
- knock over,
- landing,
- landing pad,
- landing stage,
- launching pad,
- lay level,
- lay low,
- lay out,
- layer,
- ledge,
- level,
- level line,
- level plane,
- lick,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- lists,
- locale,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- lowest level,
- march,
- mark,
- marketplace,
- mat,
- maze,
- mean sea level,
- measures,
- metal,
- mete,
- mezzanine,
- mezzanine floor,
- milieu,
- minimum,
- mow down,
- muddle,
- mystify,
- nonplus,
- ocean bottom,
- open forum,
- overcome,
- overlayer,
- overmaster,
- overmatch,
- overpower,
- overset,
- overstory,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- overwhelm,
- palaestra,
- parade ground,
- parquet,
- parry,
- parterre,
- pave,
- pavement,
- paving,
- pebble,
- perplex,
- pit,
- place,
- plain,
- plane,
- planking,
- platform,
- podium,
- prairie,
- precinct,
- precipitate,
- price ceiling,
- price index,
- price level,
- principle,
- prize ring,
- prostrate,
- public square,
- pull down,
- pulpit,
- purlieu,
- put to silence,
- puzzle,
- radical,
- range,
- rase,
- raze,
- rebut,
- reduce to silence,
- refute,
- rez-de-chaussee,
- ring,
- riprap,
- rising prices,
- rock bottom,
- rostrum,
- rout,
- rudiment,
- scene,
- scene of action,
- scenery,
- sea level,
- sea of grass,
- seam,
- seat,
- send flying,
- send headlong,
- setting,
- settle,
- shelf,
- shock,
- shut up,
- silence,
- sill,
- site,
- smash all opposition,
- soapbox,
- solid ground,
- solid rock,
- sphere,
- spread-eagle,
- squared circle,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stadium,
- stage,
- stage set,
- stage setting,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- step,
- step terrace,
- steppe,
- stereobate,
- stick,
- story,
- stratum,
- street floor,
- stump,
- stylobate,
- substratum,
- substruction,
- substructure,
- subvert,
- superstratum,
- supinate,
- surfacing,
- surmount,
- surprise,
- table,
- take down,
- tar,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- terra firma,
- terrace,
- terrain,
- theater,
- thickness,
- thrash,
- threshold,
- throw,
- throw down,
- tier,
- tilting ground,
- tiltyard,
- time allotment,
- top price,
- topple,
- topsoil,
- tribunal,
- tribune,
- trip,
- trip up,
- trounce,
- tumble,
- underbuilding,
- undercarriage,
- undergirding,
- underlayer,
- undermine,
- underpinning,
- understory,
- understratum,
- understruction,
- understructure,
- upper limit,
- upset,
- walk,
- water level,
- whack down,
- whip,
- worst,
- wrestling ring,
- zone
Words containing 'Floor'
- Floored,
- Flooring,
- Deck floor,
- Double floor,
- First floor,
- Floor cloth,
- Floor cramp,
- Floor light,
- Floor plan,
- Ground floor,
- Malt floor,
- Naked flooring,
- Second floor,
- Thrashing floor,
- Threshing floor,
- dance floor,
- floor board,
- floor cover,
- floor covering,
- floor joist,
- floor lamp,
- floor leader,
- floor show,
- floor wax,
- fly floor,
- mezzanine floor,
- ocean floor,
- on a higher floor,
- on a lower floor,
- parquet floor,
- price floor,
- privilege of the floor,
- sea floor,
- shop floor,
- take the floor,
- trading floor,
- wage floor,
- Threshing-floor,
- ground-floor,
- Double-framed floor