floor
/floɹ/ noun A1- The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room. · The room has a wooden floor.
- The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth). · The leaves covering the forest floor provide many hiding-places for small animals.· Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
- A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge. · Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
- A storey/story of a building. · For years we lived on the third floor.
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event. · Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?· The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
- That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
Plural floors
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The ground floor windows were within a foot of the surface of the water.
She placed a bar of iron in the middle of the kitchen floor, and then by her magic arts made the iron invisible to human eyes.
So that when Dorothy walked across the floor she stumbled over the bar, not being able to see it, and fell at full length.
Anne Shirley, you’re dripping greasy water all over the floor.
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