floor

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Synonyms: flood, fluor, flook, flohr, floot, floof, floom, flour, flor, bloor, foor

Antonyms: flood, fluor, flook, flohr, floot, floof, floom, flour, flor, bloor, foor

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Noun

1. {{sid|en|Q217164}}{{lb|en|countable}} The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
2. {{lb|en|geology|biology|chiefly with a modifier}} The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space {{gl|e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.}}; the [[ground]] {{gl|surface of the Earth}}.
3. {{lb|en|UK|dialectal|colloquial}} The [[ground]].
4. {{lb|en|construction|architecture}} A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into [[storey]]s/[[story|stories]].
5. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
6. {{sid|en|Q831691}}{{lb|en|architecture|countable}} A [[storey]]/[[story]] of a building.
7. In a [[parliament]], the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
8. {{lb|en|by extension}} The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
9. {{lb|en|nautical}} That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
10. {{lb|en|mining}} A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
11. {{lb|en|mining}} The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.<ref>{{R:Raymond Glossary}}</ref>
12. {{lb|en|mathematics}} The largest [[integer]] less than or equal to a given number.

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[cover]] or [[furnish]] with a floor.
2. To [[strike down]] or lay level with the floor; to [[knock down]].
3. {{lb|en|informal|dated}} To [[hang#Verb|hang]] (a [[picture#Noun|picture]] on [[exhibition]]) near the [[base#Noun|base]] of a [[wall#Noun|wall]], where it cannot [[easily]] be [[see#Verb|seen]].
4. {{lb|en|driving|transitive|slang}} To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to [[accelerate]].
5. {{lb|en|informal|transitive}} To [[silence]] by a conclusive answer or [[retort]].
6. {{lb|en|informal|transitive|usually|passive}} To [[amaze]] or greatly [[surprise]].
7. {{lb|en|colloquial|transitive}} To [[finish]] or make an end of.
8. {{lb|en|mathematics}} To set a lower bound.

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