floor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
biology
business
construction
finance
geography
geology
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
mathematics
mining
natural-sciences
nautical
sciences
sports
transport
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English floor, floour, flor, flore, flour, flur, vlor, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement; deck; gangplank”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“ground; floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots flair, fluir (“floor”), Saterland Frisian Floor (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Flur (“corridor, hall, hallway, stairwell”), Limburgish Vlǫǫr (“floor”), Low German Floor (“hallway or entrance to a house”), Luxembourgish Flouer (“countryside, farmland”); also Breton and Cornish leur (“floor, ground, surface”), Irish lár (“floor, ground”), Scottish Gaelic làr (“earth, floor, ground”), Manx laare (“bottom, deck, floor; level, storey”), Welsh llawr (“floor, ground”), Latin plānus (“even, flat, level”), Greek απαλάμη (apalámi), παλάμη (palámi, “hand, palm”), Albanian pëllëmbë (“palm”), Latgalian pluons (“thin”), Latvian plāns (“thin”), Lithuanian plonas (“fine, slender, thin”), Belarusian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian по́ле (póle, “field”), Bulgarian поле́ (polé, “field”), Czech, Polish, and Slovak pole (“field”), Serbo-Croatian по̏ље, pȍlje (“field”), Slovene polje (“field”), Hittite 𒁄𒄭𒅖 (palḫis, “broad, wide”). Related to flat.
Inflected forms:
form: floors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: floors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flooring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: floored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: floored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The room has a wooden floor.
A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
gloss: The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
pos: noun
examples: The leaves covering the forest floor provide many hiding-places for small animals.
Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home.
The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been.
gloss: The ground.
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
dialectal
examples: After stepping off the bus, my wallet fell on the floor.
gloss: A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
pos: noun
gloss: The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
pos: noun
examples: Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
gloss: A storey/story of a building.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: For years we lived on the third floor.
When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
gloss: In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
pos: noun
gloss: The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?
The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
gloss: That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
pos: noun
gloss: A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
pos: noun
gloss: The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
pos: noun
gloss: The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
pos: noun
examples: The floor of 4.5 is 4.
gloss: An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
pos: noun
gloss: A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
pos: noun
gloss: A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.
pos: noun
gloss: A dance floor.
pos: noun
examples: She's a maniac, maniac on the floor / And she's dancing like she never danced before
Open the door, get on the floor / Everybody walk the dinosaur
Meet me on the floor tonight
Show me how to move like the water
gloss: The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
pos: noun
gloss: The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
pos: noun
examples: At each table stood a young, slim, poker-faced croupier serving the punters who anxiously watched the turning of the cards. The next two floors were similar though not quite as spectacular and the stakes were lower.
gloss: The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
pos: noun
examples: The conference started as an impromptu session in the coffee shop this morning when waitresses walked off the floor rather than serve four Negro men and women delegates.
gloss: To cover or furnish with a floor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: floor a house with pine boards
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].
gloss: To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
pos: verb
examples: Sam floored him perpetually, and beat his face to a jelly, without getting a scratch.
gloss: To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
pos: verb
tags: dated
informal
gloss: To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: our driver floored the pedal
I don't remember much about the flight from Chicago to Denver. We landed a little after eleven, and I ran through the airport, ran to my car. Floored it most of the way home.
gloss: To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: floor an opponent
Floored or crushed by him.
gloss: To amaze or greatly surprise.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: We were floored by his confession.
Some of the attendees were “absolutely floored,” said an official familiar with the proceedings. That someone in the U.S. government could “make an argument that is so nakedly against transparency, in light of the unfolding catastrophe, was…shocking and disturbing.”
gloss: To finish or make an end of.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: floor a college examination
I've floored my little-go work
gloss: To set a lower bound.
pos: verb
examples: floored division
Synonyms: floor
flooring
ground
flight
Antonyms: ceiling
roof
Related words: flooring
mezzanine
floorage
floorspace
straight-joint
Derived words: 4-on-the-floor
back to the floor
barnfloor
cornfloor
cross the floor
dance floor
deck floor
drill floor
earth-floor
earth floor
first floor
floorage
floorball
floorboard
floor box
floor broker
floorcare
floorcest
floor cloth
floorcloth
floorcovering
floor cramp
floordrobe
floor effect
floorer
floor exercise
floor-filler
floorful
floor function
floor general
floorgrip
floorhand
floorhead
floor heating
floor hockey
floor it
floor lamp
floor-length
floorless
floorlet
floor light
floorlike
floorman
floor manager
floormat
floor mat
floormate
floor model
floor one could eat off
floorpan
floorperson
floor piano
floor plan
floor plan lending
floorplanning
floorplate
floor puzzle
floorset
floor show
floorshow
floorspace
floor space
floor temperature challenge
floor-through
floor tile
floortime
floor-to-ceiling
floor trader
floor-walker
floorwalking
floorward
floorwards
floorway
floorwise
floorwoman
floorwork
Four Floors of Whores
four-on-the-floor
four on the floor
four-to-the-floor
give the floor
ground-floor
ground floor
have the floor
hit the floor
hold the floor
house floor
killing floor
living floor
low-floor
malt floor
Marley floor
mezzanine floor
midfloor
mop the floor with someone
multifloor
nightingale floor
nonfloor
ocean floor
office floor plate
on the cutting room floor
on the floor
open floor plan
pelvic floor
pick oneself up off the floor
price floor
pull up a floor
refloor
rooted to the floor
sales floor
seafloor
sea-floor spreading
second floor
shiny-floor
shop floor
showfloor
skill floor
subfloor
summer floor
take the floor
tear up the dance floor
the floor is lava
thirteenth floor
thrashing floor
thrashing-floor
threshing floor
threshing-floor
through the floor
top floor
trading floor
underfloor
upfloor
valley floor
walk the floor
wipe the floor
wipe the floor with someone
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: permanto
lang: German
word: Turnboden
lang: Hungarian
word: talaj