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floor

floor (third-person singular simple present floors, present participle flooring, simple past and past participle floored)

1. To cover or furnish with a floor.

   floor a house with pine boards

2. 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!

3. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

   floor an opponent

   Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge

4. To amaze or greatly surprise.

   We were floored by his confession.

5. (colloquial) To finish or make an end of.

   floor a college examination

   Ive floored my little-go work — ed Hughes

floor (plural floors)

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

   The room has a wooden floor.

2. The lower inside surface of a hollow space.

   Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.

   The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home.

   (archaeology) The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been.

3. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
4. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.

   Wooden planks of the old bridges floor were nearly rotten.

5. A storey/story of a building.

   For years we lived on the third floor.

6. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
7. Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.

   Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?

   The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.

8. (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
9. (mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
10. (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body.
11. (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.

    The floor of 4.5 is 4.

12. (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
13. (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.

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