floor

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

floors

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

floor

past (v2)

floored

past participle (v3)

floored

present participle

flooring

3rd person singular

floors

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.

   • 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.

2. 2.The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).

   • 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.

3. 3.The ground.(colloquial)

   • After stepping off the bus, my wallet fell on the floor.

4. 4.A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.

   • Your glasses fell on the floor.
   • Our library is on the third floor.
   • Without getting up, he dragged his bag across the floor.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.(informal)

   • Floored or crushed by him.

2. 2.To cover or furnish with a floor.

   • 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,[…].

3. 3.To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.

   • Sam floored him perpetually, and beat his face to a jelly, without getting a scratch.

4. 4.To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.(slang)

   • 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.

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