Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word FLOOR

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Definitions of FLOOR

1. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
2. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
3. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
4. A dance floor.
5. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
6. The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
7. The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
8. The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
9. (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
10. (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.
11. (construction, architecture) A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
12. (architecture) A storey/story of a building.
13. (by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
14. (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
15. (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
16. (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
17. (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
18. (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
19. (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
20. (finance) 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.
21. (transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
22. (informal, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
23. (driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
24. (informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
25. (informal, transitive) To amaze or greatly surprise.
26. (colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
27. (mathematics) To set a lower bound.

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Examples of Using FLOOR in a Sentence

• Discharge petition, the process of bringing a bill out of committee to the floor for a vote without the cooperation of leadership.
• Floorball (also known by other names) is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team.
• This valley extends southward from Western Asia into the eastern part of Africa, where several deep, elongated lakes, called ribbon lakes, exist on the rift valley floor, Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika being two such examples.
• Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium.
• The hammered dulcimer is set before the musician, who in more traditional styles may sit cross-legged on the floor, or in a more modern style may stand or sit at a wooden support with legs.
• ʻĪao Valley is covered in dense rainforest, most of which consists of introduced vegetation on the valley floor.
• The ISA's dual mission is to authorize and control the development of mineral related operations in the international seabed, which is considered the "common heritage of all mankind", and to protect the ecosystem of the seabed, ocean floor and subsoil in "The Area" beyond national jurisdiction.
• Interstitial cystitis (IC), a type of bladder pain syndrome (BPS), is chronic pain in the bladder and pelvic floor of unknown cause.
• She is the 1995 world all-around champion, and the 1996 Olympic all-around and floor exercise champion.
• A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their employees—the price floor below which employees may not sell their labor.
• According to some historians, the oldest discovered Mancala boards are in 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan in the floor of a Neolithic dwelling as early as ~5,870 BC although this claim has been disputed by others.
• The player takes the role of one of several pre-defined character classes to descend through multiple dungeon floors, fighting monsters and collecting treasure, to recover the "Amulet of Yendor" at the lowest floor and then escape.
• The NYSE trading floor is located at the New York Stock Exchange Building on 11 Wall Street and 18 Broad Street and is a National Historic Landmark.
• Hockey puck, either an open or closed disk used in ice hockey and floor hockey serving the same function a ball does in ball games.
• Their slate-roofed house was built by James Chambers' father as a wedding gift for his son, and the ground floor served as the family workshop.
• This requirement to make announcements and to answer questions in Parliament means that ministers must have the privileges of the floor, which are only granted to those who are members of either house of Parliament.
• Governments typically comprise coalitions of numerous small parties which change regularly, with parties and MPs "crossing the floor" and prime ministers frequently being ousted in motions of no confidence.
• The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an organization that certifies buildings as the "World's Tallest", recognizes a building only if at least 50% of its height is made up of floor plates containing habitable floor area.
• The L-DAX Index is an indicator of the German benchmark DAX index's performance after the Xetra trading venue closes based on the floor trading at the Börse Frankfurt trading venue.
• Cane length depends upon the height of a user, and traditionally extends from the floor to the user's sternum.
• Continental margin, the zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust.
• Penetration (firestop), an opening in a wall or floor assembly required to have a fire-resistance rating, for the purpose of accommodating the passage of a mechanical, electrical, or structural penetrant.
• Examples of unary operators in mathematics and in programming include the unary minus and plus, the increment and decrement operators in C-style languages (not in logical languages), and the successor, factorial, reciprocal, floor, ceiling, fractional part, sign, absolute value, square root (the principal square root), complex conjugate (unary of "one" complex number, that however has two parts at a lower level of abstraction), and norm functions in mathematics.
• This was the first TAT cable to use a ring structure, involving two stretches of cable across the ocean floor, which explains why two numbers (12 and 13) were used.
• It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under the sea by the compression of microscopic plankton that had settled to the sea floor.

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