floor

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.

1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:

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

The leaves covering the forest floor provide many hiding-places for small animals.

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.

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

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

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

Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.

The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.

For years we lived on the third floor.

When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

(architecture) A storey/story of a building.

In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.

Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?

The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.

(by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.

(nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

(mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

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(mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.

The floor of 4.5 is 4.

(mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.

(gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise

(gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.

(finance) A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.

She's a maniac, maniac on the floor / And she's dancing like she never danced before

1983, "Maniac", Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky

Open the door, get on the floor / Everybody walk the dinosaur

1987, "Walk the Dinosaur", Was (Not Was)

The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.

At each table stood a young, slim, poker-faced croupier serving the punters who anxiously watched the turning of the cards. The next two floors were similar though not quite as spectacular and the stakes were lower.

2004, Tim Hatton, Tock Tock Birds: A Spider in the Web of International Terrorism, page 284:

The area of a casino where gambling occurs.

The conference started as an impromptu session in the coffee shop this morning when waitresses walked off the floor rather than serve four Negro men and women delegates.

1947 March 18, U.S. Government Printing Office, Proceedings and Debates of the Congress, Eightieth Congress, First Session, page 2206:

The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.

земя́

surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground

طَابِق

horizontal structure dividing a building

sali

part of the house assigned to the members of a legislative assembly

pohja

nautical: near-horizontal part of the bottom of a vessel

alapohja

mining: horizontal, flat ore body; rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit

lattia

mining: bottom of a pit, pothole or mine

dolní celá část

mathematics: the largest integer less than or equal to a given number

lattia

finance: lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan

lattia

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

non-rhotic, dough–door merger, African-American Vernacular

From Middle English flor, flore, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement, ground, bottom”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“flat surface, floor, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).
Cognate with Scots flure, fluir (“floor”), Saterland Frisian Floor (“floor”), West Frisian flier (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Low German Floor (“entry hall”), German Flur (“field, floor, entrance hall”), Swedish flor (“floor of a cow stall”), Irish urlár (“floor”), Scottish Gaelic làr (“floor, ground, earth”), Welsh llawr (“floor, ground”), Latin plānus (“level, flat”).


floor

floor a house with pine boards

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,[…].

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

(transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.

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

1821, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 8, page 67:

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

(informal, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.

our driver floored the pedal

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

floor an opponent

Floored or crushed by him.

c. 1827-1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Hacket:

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

We were floored by his confession.

Some of the attendees were “absolutely floored,” said an official familiar with the proceedings. That someone in the U.S. government could “make an argument that is so nakedly against transparency, in light of the unfolding catastrophe, was…shocking and disturbing.”

2021 June 3, Katherine Eban, “The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins”, in Vanity Fair:

(informal, transitive) To amaze or greatly surprise.

floor a college examination

I've floored my little-go work

1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], Tom Brown at Oxford: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC:

(colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.

floored division

en-verb

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

floors (present singular third-person)
flooring (participle present)
floored (participle past)
floored (past)