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[ flawr ]

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noun

that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
a continuous, supporting surface extending horizontally throughout a building, having a number of rooms, apartments, or the like, and constituting one level or stage in the structure; story.
a level, supporting surface in any structure:
the elevator floor.
one of two or more layers of material composing a floor:
rough floor; finish floor.
a platform or prepared level area for a particular use:
a threshing floor.
the bottom of any more or less hollow place:
the floor of a tunnel.
a more or less flat extent of surface:
the floor of the ocean.
the part of a legislative chamber, meeting room, etc., where the members sit, and from which they speak.
the right of one member to speak from such a place in preference to other members:
The senator from Alaska has the floor.
the area of a floor, as in a factory or retail store, where items are actually made or sold, as opposed to offices, supply areas, etc.:
There are only two salesclerks on the floor.
the main part of a stock or commodity exchange or the like, as distinguished from the galleries, platform, etc.
the bottom, base, or minimum charged, demanded, or paid:
The government avoided establishing a price or wage floor.
Mining. an underlying stratum, as of ore, usually flat.
Nautical.
1. the bottom of a hull.
2. any of a number of deep, transverse framing members at the bottom of a steel or iron hull, generally interrupted by and joined to any vertical keel or keelsons.
3. the lowermost member of a frame in a wooden vessel.

verb (used with object)

to cover or furnish with a floor.
to bring down to the floor or ground; knock down:
He floored his opponent with one blow.
to overwhelm; defeat.
to confound or puzzle; nonplus:
I was floored by the problem.
Also to push (a foot-operated accelerator pedal) all the way down to the floor of a vehicle, for maximum speed or power.

floor

/ �ڱ�ɔː /

noun

Also calledflooring the inner lower surface of a room
a storey of a building
the second floor
a flat bottom surface in or on any structure
the floor of a lift
a dance floor
the bottom surface of a tunnel, cave, river, sea, etc
mining an underlying stratum
nautical the bottom, or the lowermost framing members at the bottom, of a vessel
that part of a legislative hall in which debate and other business is conducted
the right to speak in a legislative or deliberative body (esp in the phrases get, have, or be given the floor )
the room in a stock exchange where trading takes place
the earth; ground
a minimum price charged or paid
a wage floor
take the floor
to begin dancing on a dance floor

verb

to cover with or construct a floor
tr to knock to the floor or ground
informal.
tr to disconcert, confound, or defeat
to be floored by a problem

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Other Word Forms

�ڱ��Ǵǰ�·�� adjective
�ܲ�·��·�ڱ��Ǵǰ� noun
�ܲ�·�ڱ��Ǵǰ� verb (used with object)

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Word History and Origins

Origin of floor¹

First recorded before 900; from Middle English flor, Old English �ڱ�ō��; cognate with Old Norse �ڱ�ō��, Middle Low German ��ō��, Middle High German vluor ( German Flur )

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Word History and Origins

Origin of floor¹

Old English �ڱ�ō�� ; related to Old Norse �ڱ�ō��r , Middle Low German ��ō�� floor, Latin ��Գܲ� level, Greek planan to cause to wander

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

mop / wipe the floor with, Informal. to overwhelm completely; defeat:
He expected to mop the floor with his opponents.
take the floor, to arise to address a meeting.

More idioms and phrases containing floor

see ground floor ; mop up the floor with ; sink through the floor ; take the floor ; walk the floor .

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Example Sentences

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Now, when museum officials made an inspection visit, they were greeted with shattered glass, bullet cases on the floor and traces of looting everywhere.

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I’ve got rudder pedals on the floor and all these controls.

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"All of these places have flat floors. Why would you want the added expense of a very complex form factor... when you could just put it on a mobile base?" he asks.

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Researchers found distinctive scratch marks left by the drifting icebergs as they gouged deep tracks into the North Sea floor more than 18,000 years ago.

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The vast majority of people living without flooring in all rooms - 760,000 - were in social housing, according to a survey of 5,500 people carried out by The National Centre for Social Research.

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