noun
- The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure. )
- usage: "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent"
- synonyms: flooring
- A structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale.
- usage: "what level is the office on"
- A lower limit.
- usage: "the government established a wage floor"
- synonyms: base
- The ground on which people and animals move about.
- usage: "the fire spared the forest floor"
- The bottom surface of any lake or other body of water.
- The lower inside surface of any hollow structure.
- usage: "the floor of the pelvis"; "the floor of the cave"
- The occupants of a floor.
- usage: "the whole floor complained about the lack of heat"
- The parliamentary right to address an assembly.
- usage: "the chairman granted him the floor"
- The legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business.
- usage: "there was a motion from the floor"
- A large room in a exchange where the trading is done.
- usage: "he is a floor trader"
- synonyms: trading floor
verb
- Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off.
- usage: "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
- synonyms: shock, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback
- Knock down with force.
- usage: "He decked his opponent"
- synonyms: deck, coldcock, dump, knock down
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