Definitions for floor

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floor floor

Spelling: [flawr, flohr]

IPA: /flɔr, floʊr/

Floor is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in floor (floor).

Definitions for floor

noun

1. that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
2. a continuous, supporting surface extending horizontally throughout a building, having a number of rooms, apartments, or the like, and constituting one level or stage in the structure; story.
3. a level, supporting surface in any structure:
4. one of two or more layers of material composing a floor:
5. a platform or prepared level area for a particular use:
6. the bottom of any more or less hollow place:
7. a more or less flat extent of surface:
8. the part of a legislative chamber, meeting room, etc., where the members sit, and from which they speak.
9. the right of one member to speak from such a place in preference to other members:
10. the area of a floor, as in a factory or retail store, where items are actually made or sold, as opposed to offices, supply areas, etc.:
11. the main part of a stock or commodity exchange or the like, as distinguished from the galleries, platform, etc.
12. the bottom, base, or minimum charged, demanded, or paid:
13. Mining. an underlying stratum, as of ore, usually flat.
14. Nautical. the bottom of a hull. any of a number of deep, transverse framing members at the bottom of a steel or iron hull, generally interrupted by and joined to any vertical keel or keelsons. the lowermost member of a frame in a wooden vessel.

Idioms

1. mop / wipe the floor with, Informal. to overwhelm completely; defeat:
2. take the floor, to arise to address a meeting.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or furnish with a floor.
2. to bring down to the floor or ground; knock down:
3. to overwhelm; defeat.
4. to confound or puzzle; nonplus:
5. Also, floorboard. to push (a foot-operated accelerator pedal) all the way down to the floor of a vehicle, for maximum speed or power.

Origin of floor

before 900; Middle English flor, Old English flōr; cognate with Old Norse flōr, Middle Low German vlōr, Middle High German vluor (German Flur)

Examples for floor

When I saw the fire in the restaurant, I ran down to the floor below, where I was trapped between flames above and below.

Percival had walked the floor in deep attention to the old man's words.

We lived in a coed dorm, with the first and third floors housing the young men, and the second floor housing the girls.

He led the way into the house and picked up one of the posters, which lay on the floor.

She fell to the floor in helpless, shrieking laughter when he came.

I had no idea what time it was or how long I had been on the second floor.

It was a Senate floor soap opera over none other than a soap-opera producer.

He began to pace the floor again from one room to the other.

Twin girls, Greta and Grace, run around the floor in circles, wearing pink playsuits with tiny pink wings attached.

He swept up the blankets and went down the stairs to the first floor.