Definitions for floor
flɔr, floʊrfloor

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. floor, flooringnoun

   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"

2. floor, level, storey, storynoun

   a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale

   "what level is the office on?"

3. floor, basenoun

   a lower limit

   "the government established a wage floor"

4. floornoun

   the ground on which people and animals move about

   "the fire spared the forest floor"

5. floornoun

   the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water

6. floornoun

   the lower inside surface of any hollow structure

   "the floor of the pelvis"; "the floor of the cave"

7. floornoun

   the occupants of a floor

   "the whole floor complained about the lack of heat"

8. floornoun

   the parliamentary right to address an assembly

   "the chairman granted him the floor"

9. floornoun

   the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business

   "there was a motion from the floor"

10. floor, trading floorverb

    a large room in a exchange where the trading is done

    "he is a floor trader"

11. shock, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take abackverb

    surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off

    "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"

12. deck, coldcock, dump, knock down, floorverb

    knock down with force

    "He decked his opponent"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. floornoun

   The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.

   The room has a wooden floor.

2. floornoun

   The lower inside surface of a hollow space.

3. floornoun

   A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.

4. floornoun

   The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.

   Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.

5. floornoun

   A storey/story of a building.

   For years we lived on the third floor.

6. floornoun

   In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.

7. floornoun

   Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.

8. floornoun

   That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

9. floornoun

   The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

10. floorverb

    To cover or furnish with a floor.

    floor a house with pine boards

11. floorverb

    To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.

    As soon as our driver saw an insurgent in a car holding a detonation device, he floored the pedal and was 2,000 feet away when that car bomb exploded. We escaped certain death in the nick of time!

12. floorverb

    To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

13. floorverb

    To amaze or greatly surprise.

    We were floored by his confession.

14. floorverb

    To finish or make an end of.

15. floornoun

    A horizontal, flat ore body.

16. floornoun

    The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.

    The floor of 4.5 is 4.

17. floornoun

    An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.

18. floornoun

    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.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FLOORnoun

   Etymology: flor, flore, Saxon.

   1. The pavement: a pavement is always of stone, the floor of wood or stone; the part on which one treads.

   His stepmother, making all her gestures counterfeit affliction, lay almost groveling upon the floor of her chamber. Philip Sidney.

   He rent that iron door
   With furious force, and indignation fell;
   Where entered in, his foot could find no floor,
   But all a deep descent as dark as hell. Fairy Queen, b. i.

   Look how the floor of heav’n
   Is thick inlay’d with patens of bright gold:
   There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st,
   But in his motion like an angel sings,
   Still quiring to the young ey’d cherubims. William Shakespeare.

   The ground lay strewed with pikes so thick as a floor is usually strewed with rushes. John Hayward.

   He winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing floor. Ruth.

   2. A story; a flight of rooms.

   He that building stays at one
   Floor, or the second, hath erected none. Ben Jonson, Catiline.

2. To Floorverb

   To cover the bottom with a floor.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   Hewn stone and timber to floor the houses. 2 Chro. xxxiv.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Floor

   A floor is the bottom surface of a room or vehicle. Floors vary from simple dirt in a cave to many-layered surfaces made with modern technology. Floors may be stone, wood, bamboo, metal or any other material that can support the expected load. The levels of a building are often referred to as floors, although a more proper term is storey. Floors typically consist of a subfloor for support and a floor covering used to give a good walking surface. In modern buildings the subfloor often has electrical wiring, plumbing, and other services built in. As floors must meet many needs, some essential to safety, floors are built to strict building codes in some regions.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. floor

   A floor generally refers to the bottom surface of a room or building, usually made of a durable material like wood, tile, or carpet, on which people walk or place furniture and other items.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Floornoun

   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. Floornoun

   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. Floornoun

   the surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge

4. Floornoun

   a story of a building. See Story

5. Floornoun

   the part of the house assigned to the members

6. Floornoun

   the right to speak

7. Floornoun

   that part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal

8. Floornoun

   the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit

9. Floornoun

   a horizontal, flat ore body

10. Floorverb

    to cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards

11. Floorverb

    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

12. Floorverb

    to finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination

13. Etymology: [AS. flr; akin to D. vloer, G. flur field, floor, entrance hall, Icel. flr floor of a cow stall, cf. Ir. & Gael. lar floor, ground, earth, W. llawr, perh. akin to L. planus level. Cf. Plain smooth.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Floor

   A floor is the walking surface of a room or vehicle. Floors vary from simple dirt in a cave to many-layered surfaces using modern technology. Floors may be stone, wood, bamboo, metal, or any other material that can hold a person's weight. The levels of a building are often referred to as floors although a more proper term is storey. Floors typically consist of a subfloor for support and a floor covering used to give a good walking surface. In modern buildings the subfloor often has electrical wiring, plumbing, and other services built in. Because floors meet many needs, some essential to safety, floors are built to strict building codes in the first world.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Floor

   flōr, n. the part of a room on which we stand: a platform: the rooms in a house on the same level, a story: any levelled area.—v.t. to furnish with a floor: (coll.) to vanquish, stump.—ns. Floor′cloth, a covering for floors made of canvas oil-painted on both sides; Floor′er, a knock-down blow; a decisive retort, &c.: an examination question one cannot answer; Floor′ing, material for floors: a platform.—n.pl. Floor′-tim′bers, the timbers placed immediately across a ship's keel, on which her bottom is framed.—ns. First′-floor, the floor in a house above the ground-floor—in United States mostly identical with Ground-floor, the floor of a house on a level with the ground. [A.S. flór; Dut. vloer, a flat surface, Ger. flur, flat land; W. llawr.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. floor

   The bottom of a vessel on each side of the kelson; but strictly taken, it is only so much of her bottom as she rests upon when aground. Such ships as have long and withal broad floors, lie on the ground with most security; whereas others which are narrow in the floor, fall over on their sides and break their timbers.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. floor

   A type of product and structure.

   The floor is so level.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 27, 2020  

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FLOOR

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Floor is ranked #45569 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Floor surname appeared 469 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Floor.
   
   90.8% or 426 total occurrences were White.
   2.7% or 13 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.3% or 11 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.9% or 9 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Cave
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   • Gathering
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   • Lake
   • Land
   • Right
   • Structure
   • Surface
   • Surprise

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'floor' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #883

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'floor' in Written Corpus Frequency: #846

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'floor' in Nouns Frequency: #342

How to pronounce floor?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of floor in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of floor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of floor in a Sentence

1. Mike Lee:

   Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., supports the legislation and had hoped to pass it last Thursday, but Mitch McConnell was forced to delay consideration past the expiration date after Mike Lee, R-Utah, and two other senators Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Ron Wyden said they would object. The House legislation, negotiated by White House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, would renew several provisions the FBI sees as vital to fighting terrorism but also aim to ensure stricter oversight of how the bureau conducts surveillance. PAUL : MY FISA AMENDMENT WILL KEEP Mike Lee had proposed a deal on the Senate floor Thursday extension of the current authorities if the Senate would consider several amendments to the White House bill that would further limit them. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, speaking on the floor for Mitch McConnell, objected to that deal, saying the Senate should instead pass the House bill. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has pushed for FISA reforms. ( AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Were not a rubberstamp for the House of Representatives, were certainly not a rubber stamp for the Deep State.

2. Sheen Mau-song:

   The structural system of the building was pretty poor, there were very few pillars on the first floor, the pillars were quite scattered about, and the materials, from the weakest side, were destroyed.

3. Kevin McCarthy:

   What House Democrats are bringing before us, it's really a radical bill. It goes beyond Roe V. Wade. It allows abortion on demand up until birth. It shows how far left Democrats have become, regardless of how you feel about the situation, that is not the place I believe Americans are at. But they are going to spend their time pushing that onto the floor.

4. Christopher Hart:

   Technology has reached a point where we shouldn't have to search hundreds of miles of ocean floor in a frantic race to find these valuable boxes.

5. Peter Chen:

   They're just the modern version of something that's always been around: utopian political system designers, they're obviously guys who are really focused on the tech thing and that has always been the problem with the e-democracy people. They're often really tech-driven and they need political scientists at the brainstorming floor to say 'well, I don't know if that'd work'.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=floor
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Floor
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=floor
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/floor
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=floor
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=floor
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=floor
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html