floor

== Translingual == === Etymology === Borrowed from English floor. === Symbol === floor (mathematics) floor function Synonym: ⌊ ⌋ == English == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle English floor, floour, flor, flore, flour, flur, vlor, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement; deck; gangplank”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“ground; floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: flô, IPA(key): /flɔː/ (General American, Canada) enPR: flôr, IPA(key): /floɹ/ (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /floː/ (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: flōr, IPA(key): /flo(ː)ɹ/ (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /floə/ (non-rhotic, dough–door merger, African-American Vernacular) IPA(key): /floʊ/ Homophones: flaw (non-rhotic); flow, floe (dough–door merger) Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ) === Noun === floor (plural floors) (countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room. (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). (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground. (construction, architecture) 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. (architecture, countable) A storey/story of a building. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery. (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. (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine. (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. A dance floor. 1983, "Maniac", Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky: She's a maniac, maniac on the floor / And she's dancing like she never danced before 1987, "Walk the Dinosaur", Was (Not Was): Open the door, get on the floor / Everybody walk the dinosaur The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition. The area of a casino where gambling occurs. The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers. ==== Synonyms ==== (bottom part of a room): see Thesaurus:floor (right to speak): possession (UK) ==== Antonyms ==== ceiling ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === floor (third-person singular simple present floors, present participle flooring, simple past and past participle floored) (transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor. 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. Antonym: sky (driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate. 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.7, at p.161: 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. (informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort. (informal, transitive, usually passive voice) To amaze or greatly surprise. (colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of. (mathematics) To set a lower bound. ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === Floor (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Floor in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) === Anagrams === Floro == Hawaiian Creole == === Noun === floor (countable) floor (the interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room) == Middle English == === Noun === floor alternative form of flor