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Definition: Floor |
FloorNoun1. The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors". 2. Structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building; "what level is the office on?". 3. A lower limit: "the government established a wage floor". 4. The ground on which people and animals move about; "the fire spared the forest floor". 5. The bottom surface of any a cave or lake etc. 6. The occupants of a floor; "the whole floor complained about the lack of heat". 7. The parliamentary right to address an assembly; "the chairman granted him the floor". 8. The legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business; "there was a motion from the floor". 9. A large room in a stock exchange where the trading is done; "he is a floor trader". Verb1. Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off. 2. Knock down with force; "He decked his opponent". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "floor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Energy | The upward facing structure of a building. (references) |
Engineering & Technology | Component supporting payload of container. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | (1) the minimum allowable interest rate decrease for adjustable rate mortgages. Floors embedded in mortgage agreements may limit the amount of downward change in the rate of interest at each adjustment period and provide a fixed minimum below which the rate cannot drop during the life of the loan. (2) an agreement negotiated between a buyer and seller. The buyer of a floor agreement pays a fee to the seller. In return, the seller will pay the buyer if a designated floating index rate is lower than a specified fixed rate on designated days. The seller pays nothing if the floating rate is above the fixed rate. Buyers of floor agreements use them to hedge against falling interest rates, because payments to the buyer increase as rates rise. See cap. See collar. (references) |
Law | (1) The Assembly or Senate Chambers.(2) The term used to describe the location of a bill or the type of session. Matters may be referred as "on the floor." (references) |
Literature | Floor I floored him. Knocked him down on the floor; hence, to overcome, beat or surpass. Thus, we say at the university, "I floored that paper," i.e. answered every question on it. "I floored that problem" - did it perfectly, or made myself master of it. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | The refractory lining forming the base of the combustion chamber. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | That part of any underground gallery upon which a person walks or upon which a tramway is laid. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal ore deposit, corresponding to the footwall of more steeply dipping deposits. b. The bottom of a coal seam or any other mineral deposit. CF:roo c. Plank-covered, or steel-mesh-covered, level work area at the base of a drill tripod or derrick around the collar of a borehole in front of the drill. See also:platform d. Loose plank laid parallel with rock drift at the heading before blasting a round of holes to facilitate the loading of broken rock. e. A horizontal, flat orebody. f. The bed or bottom of the ocean. A comparatively level valley bottom; any low-lying ground surface g. That part of any underground gallery upon which a person walks or upon which a tramway is laid. h. A plank platform underground.i. The upper surface of the stratum underlying a coal seam. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This article is about the floor of a room or building. In mathematics, see Floor function.In architecture, a floor is generally the lower horizontal surface of a room, but specially employed for one covered with boarding or parquetry (see also flooring). The various levels of rooms in a building are also called floors or stories, as "ground floor", "first story", "mezzanine floor", etc.
A confusion arises between American English and British English: In American English the floor at the ground level is the first floor, and the floor above is the second floor; whereas in British English, the floor at the ground level is the ground floor and the floor above is the first floor. However in either country, the first story is the floor at ground level.
The principal floor is the story which contains the chief apartments whether on the ground floor or the floor above; in Italy they are always on the latter and known as the piano nobile. The story below the ground floor is called the basement floor, even if only a little below the level of the pavement outside; the story in a roof is known as the attic floor. The expressions one pair, two pair, etc., apply to the storys above the first flight of stairs from the ground (see also carpentry).
Floors in buildings are often renamed or renumbered depending on the superstitions of the local population. In much of the European world, for example, the number 13 is considered unlucky (triskaidekaphobia), so the floor is renumbered to 12A or 12B, or even directly to 14. In Chinese culture, 4 is considered unlucky, so 4 would be renamed 3A or 3B, and further up the building, the floors would be numbered 12, 13, 13A, 15. Interestingly, this results in two floors numbered 13, whereas Europeans would prefer none!
Partly taken from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Floor."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Floor is a gymnastics as well as an artistic gymnastics apparatus. It is used by male as well as female gymnasts.
Dimensions
In most competitive gyms the floor have springs in them which make the floor bouncy and enables the gymnast to get height when doing tumbling and jumps. The exercise time is up to 70 seconds for male and up to 90 seconds for female.
- Length 12 m
- Width 12 m
- Additional safety border 1 m
Other apparatus
Female
Male
- Vault
- Uneven Bars
- Balance Beam
- Pommel Horse
- Rings
- Vault
- Parallel Bars
- Horizontal or High Bar
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Floor (gymnastics)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In mathematics, the floor function is the function defined as follows: for a real number x, floor(x) is the largest integer less than or equal to x. For example, floor(2.3) = 2, floor(-2) = -2 and floor(-2.3) = -3. The floor function is also denoted by or .
We always have
with equality on the left if and only if x is an integer. For any integer k and any real number x, we have
The ordinary rounding of the number x to the nearest integer can be expressed as floor(x + 0.5).
The floor function is not continuous, but it is upper semi-continuous.
A closely related mathematical function is the ceiling function, which is defined as follows: for any given real number x, ceiling(x) is the smallest integer no less than x. For example, ceiling(2.3) = 3, ceiling(2) = 2 and ceiling(-2.3) = -2. The ceiling function is also denoted by . It is easy to show the following:
and the following:
For any integer k, we also have the following equality:
If m and n are coprime positive integers, then
- .
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Floor function."
Synonyms: FloorSynonyms: base (n), flooring (n), level (n), storey (n), story (n), trading floor (n), ball over (v), blow out of the water (v), coldcock (v), deck (v), dump (v), knock down (v), shock (v), stun (v), take aback (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: footwall (mining). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Base | Noun: base, basement; plinth, dado, wainscot; baseboard, mopboard; bedrock, hardpan; foundation; (support); substructure, substratum, ground, earth, pavement, floor, paving, flag, carped, ground floor, deck; footing, ground work, basis; hold, bilge. |
Horizontality | Render horizontal; Adjective: lay down, lay out; level, flatten; prostrate, knock down, floor, fell. |
Plain, floor, platform, bowling green; cricket ground; croquet ground, croquet lawn; billiard table; terrace, estrade, esplanade, parterre. | |
Layer | Noun: layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment; table, tablet; dess; flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter. |
Lowness | Molehill; lowlands; basement floor, ground floor; rez de chaussee; cellar; hold, bilge; feet, heels. |
Mart | The pit, the floor. |
Plan | Adjective: planned; Verb: strategic, strategical; planning; Verb: prepared, in course of preparation; under consideration; on the tapis, on the carpet, on the floor. |
Receptacle | Attic, loft, garret, clerestory; cellar, vault, hold, cockpit; cubbyhole; cook house; entre-sol; mezzanine floor; ground floor, rez-de-chaussee; basement, kitchen, pantry, bawarchi-khana, scullery, offices; storeroom; (depository); lumber room; dairy, laundry. |
Success | Defeat, conquer, vanquish, discomfit; euchre; overcome, overthrow, overpower, overmaster, overmatch, overset, override, overreach; outwit, outdo, outflank, outmaneuver, outgeneral, outvote; take the wind out of one's adversary's sails; beat, beat hollow; rout, lick, drub, floor, worst; put down, put to flight, put to the rout, put hors de combat, put out of court. |
Support | Noun: support, ground, foundation, base, basis; terra firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait, caudex crib; point d'appui, gr/pou sto/gr, purchase footing, hold, locus standi; landing place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor; (basement). |
The Drama | Stage, scene, scenery, the boards; trap, mezzanine floor; flies; floats, footlights; offstage; orchestra. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Eat floor. (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters) I feel like the floor of a taxi cab. (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) You know, Herbert Hoover once stayed here on this floor. (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; writing credit: John Hughes) Someone on your floor will (PCU; writing credit: Adam Leff; Zak Penn) You can lose it in the floor. Would you like to dance (Thank God It's Friday; writing credit: Armyan Bernstein) | |
Lyrics | The state where ya never find a dance floor empty (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC) Lingerie second floor (Love In An Elevator; performing artist: Aerosmith) A fifth of Jim Beam on the floor (Birmingham; performing artist: Amanda Marshall) Just get up on the dance floor (Blow Your Mind; performing artist: Baha Men) I have the words written on the floor. So if you see me looking (Stoney end; performing artist: Barbra Streisand) | |
Clever | The pelvic exam will be done later on the floor. (references; author: unknown) Parental Observation: A child will not spill on a dirty floor. (references; author: unknown) Adult Education Topic: Fundamental differences between the laundry hamper and the floor. Pictures and explanatory graphics. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Terror on the 40th Floor (1974) Four on the Floor (1970) Top Floor Girl (1959) Floor Flusher (1954) Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954) | |
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 | Shown here are a patient (young girl) and nurse, both seated on the floor. The nurse is teaching the girl about procedures and techniques associated with chemotherapy. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Pictured is a family scene, with a mother reading a story to several children. She is seated in a rocking chair and they are surrounding her on the floor in a family room setting. These people are part of a Mormon family. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate, well below the national average. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | CDC clinic located at one time on the second floor of the Rialto Theater Building. Credit: CDC. |  | Mapping the Ocean Floor Joint NOAA-USGS Exclusive Economic Zone Project Office NOAA responsible for multi-beam bathymetric mapping program. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | 3-D image from NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project Monterey Canyon floor south of Santa Cruz. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Ice stalactites, columns of ice, refrozen floor of cave, and ice crystals. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | The "Skylab" building which was used as laboratories. There was a lounge on the third floor. An all-sky camera on the roof photographed auroras. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | A sand corridor between the spur and groove formation of the reef. The restoration effort focused on keeping coral fragments off the reef floor and out of the sand corridors where they would become abraded and scoured. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | A close-up of air being pumped into the floor of the riverbed to loosen sediments. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Octopus live in all oceans, including the muddy deep sea floor. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
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| "Floor Drain" by Paul Marengo Commentary: "Floor drain in bathroom." | "Cracked plastic floor mat" by Johnnie Crash Commentary: "Old cracked plastic floor mat.. not much more can be said." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Sweeping glass across the floor with a broom. | | Chipmunks knocking plates off a kitchen counter; plates crashing to the floor. |
| Keys clanking together; wooden chair sliding against a linoleum floor. | | Sweeping the floor with a broom. |
| Metal door being pulled shut across the cement floor. | | Wooden crate smashing on the floor. |
| A handful or money being tossed on a table or floor. | | Metal silverware and pots falling to the floor. |
| Wooden boards falling onto the floor. | | A single dime being tossed onto a table or floor. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Emo Philips | I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." |
Molinos | With the wind of tribulation God separates, in the floor of the soul, the wheat from the chaff. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor. |
Steven Wright | I once got pulled over and the cop said, "Why were you going so fast?" I said, "Why? Because I had my foot to the floor. Sends more gas through the carbourator. Makes the engine go faster. The whole car just takes off like that." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | Alice noticed, with some surprise, that the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her head |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Upon the floor within, were piled up heaps of rusty keys, nails, chains, hinges, files, scales, weights, and refuse iron of all kinds |
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe | Douglas Adams | Zaphod screamed a diminished fifth himself, dropped his light and sat heavily on the floor, or rather on a body which had been lying there undisturbed for six months and which reacted to being sat on by exploding with great violence |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Large quantities of similar rubbish lay lumbering the floor. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This conversation took place in the dining gallery on the ground floor. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He struck the ferule of his umbrella on the stone floor of the colonnade |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He looked into the barn shed, deserted, a little ground straw on the floor, and at the mule stall in the corner |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Glumdalclitch stood upon a stool on the floor, near my table, to assist and take care of me. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It was dark, and had a dirt floor for the most part, dank, clammy, and aguish, only here a board and there a board which would not bear removal |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Vacuum the floor and furniture. (references) | |
The pelvic floor muscles also help keep the urethra closed. (references) | ||
Homogenous leukoplakia in the floor of the mouth in a smoker. (references) | ||
Business | Open spaces on the ground floor of shopping malls are also often used for special promotions. (references) | |
Pre-finished and engineered/laminated flooring is the fastest growing segment in the wood floor industry. (references) | ||
Wall and floor tile (HS 690220) is one of the most widely used materials for wall and floor décor in China. (references) | ||
Children | India | Press reports described horrific conditions in many mental hospitals elsewhere in the country, including one where inmates were chained in a row on a stone floor in an ill-lit room during the daytime. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Russia | On July 13, a fire, which some Jewish leaders suspected to be the result of arson, damaged the roof and upper floor of the school. (references) |
Bulgaria | A July 31 session had no media coverage, because it was "informal," according to a BHC report, which added that the press was concerned by the fact that they no longer will be able to meet with Cabinet members on the floor of the Prime Minister's office and session hall. (references) | |
Economic History | Kenya | The NSE trading floor still clears actual stock certificates. (references) |
Israel | The average floor size of a supermarket is 600 square meters. (references) | |
Korea | The indoor exhibition hall has a floor space of 26,446 square meters. (references) | |
Human Rights | Burma | Bedding, if any, consists of a single mat on the floor. (references) |
Guyana | Inmates generally sleep on a thin pallet on the concrete floor. (references) | |
Brazil | Inmates sleep three abreast on top of mattresses laid on a concrete floor. (references) | |
Political Economy | HUNGARY | The government offers a wholesale floor price for many agricultural products. (references) |
VENEZUELA | Floor and ceiling prices are set once a year based on average CIF prices during the past five years. (references) | |
THE BAHAMAS | The basic tax was reduced from $200,000 to $50,000 for casinos with floor space of less than 5,000 square feet. (references) | |
Political Rights | Mauritania | The unused cards are discarded on the floor. (references) |
Maldives | Debate on the floor since the question period was instituted has become increasingly sharp and open. (references) | |
Mauritania | Although voters in theory could take the unused cards out of the polling place with them, the ready availability of many unused cards on the floor makes the cards worthless as evidence of how a voter has voted and effectively eliminates the potential for abuse in such a multiple ballot system. (references) | |
Trade | Panama | The merchandise to be displayed in certain trade shows enjoys duty free status and may be sold off the floor duty free. (references) |
Switzerland | If the goods are sold to a Swiss resident off the exhibition floor, the buyer incurs a liability for the customs charges. (references) | |
Colombia | This increases the likelihood that the reference price will fall below the floor price and the additional surcharge will be added to the import duty. (references) | |
Travel | Yemen | These events are held at businessmen's homes where guests sit on cushions on the floor. (references) |
France | In France the ground floor in buildings is identified as "RC" (Rez-de-Chaussee) and the next floor up is considered the first floor. (references) | |
Korea | Upon arrival in Korea, an immigration card and customs declaration form (given on the plane) should be completed before reaching the first floor arrival processing area. (references) | |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | A worker in Sharjah died by falling from the 15th floor of a building. (references) |
Denmark | No national minimum wage is mandated legally, but national labor agreements effectively set a wage floor. (references) | |
Guatemala | Credible reports allege that management through floor supervisors planned and organized the antiunion violence (consisting of beatings and bottle and rock throwing which caused several minor injuries) and intimidation. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy is commonly a beautiful young man, with a red necktie and an intricate system of cobwebs extending from his nose to his desk. When accidentally struck by the janitor's broom, he gives off a cloud of dust. "Chief Deputy," the Master cried, "To-day the books are to be tried By experts and accountants who Have been commissioned to go through Our office here, to see if we Have stolen injudiciously. Please have the proper entries made, The proper balances displayed, Conforming to the whole amount Of cash on hand -- which they will count. I've long admired your punctual way -- Here at the break and close of day, Confronting in your chair the crowd Of business men, whose voices loud And gestures violent you quell By some mysterious, calm spell -- Some magic lurking in your look That brings the noisiest to book And spreads a holy and profound Tranquillity o'er all around. So orderly all's done that they Who came to draw remain to pay. But now the time demands, at last, That you employ your genius vast In energies more active. Rise And shake the lightnings from your eyes; Inspire your underlings, and fling Your spirit into everything!" The Master's hand here dealt a whack Upon the Deputy's bent back, When straightway to the floor there fell A shrunken globe, a rattling shell A blackened, withered, eyeless head! The man had been a twelvemonth dead. Jamrach Holobom |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Robert Novak | Senator Johnson, pending on the Senate floor now is the homeland security bill, which is tied up over a question of how much authority the government employee should have or the president should have. |
Rush Limbaugh | Just Wednesday there was story out of Oklahoma City about a man causing a commotion at FBI headquarters by spilling a soft drink on the floor. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Go to her house some night, and maybe you'll see her silhouette against the window as she walks the floor talking softly, soothing a child in her arms--Mother Hale of Harlem, and she, too, is an American hero. |
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| "Floor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.97% of the time. "Floor" is used about 11,537 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.97% | 11,533 | 804 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.02% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11,537 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "floor" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Floor | Last name | 200 | 35,838 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "floor". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Agag | N/A | Biblical | Upper floor |
| Cyrene | N/A | Biblical | The floor |
| Karkaa | N/A | Biblical | Floor |
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| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | The Ninth Floor PLC |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "floor": bedding on the floor ♦ board room floor ♦ boarded floor ♦ cabin floor ♦ ceramic floor tile ♦ circus floor ♦ cockpit floor construction ♦ concrete floor ♦ crawl on the floor ♦ dance floor ♦ Deck floor ♦ design floor time histories ♦ Double floor ♦ draught along the floor ♦ drop on the floor ♦ drop things on the floor ♦ earthen floor ♦ fall on the floor ♦ fall to the floor with a bang ♦ first floor ♦ floor area ♦ floor beam ♦ floor blocks ♦ floor board ♦ floor care ♦ floor care machine ♦ Floor cloth ♦ floor covering ♦ Floor cramp ♦ floor drains ♦ floor fan ♦ floor finish ♦ floor gearshift ♦ floor hockey ♦ floor joist ♦ floor lamp ♦ floor leader ♦ Floor light ♦ floor malting ♦ floor manager ♦ floor oil ♦ floor plan ♦ floor plan layout ♦ floor polish ♦ floor polisher ♦ floor show ♦ floor space ♦ floor squeegee ♦ floor the paper ♦ floor tile ♦ floor walker ♦ floor wax ♦ fly floor ♦ get in on the ground floor ♦ get the floor ♦ ground floor ♦ grpund floor ♦ hardwood floor ♦ have the floor ♦ inlaid floor ♦ lay a floor ♦ live on the second floor ♦ maize floor ♦ Malt floor ♦ maximum floor load ♦ mezzanine floor ♦ mop the floor with ♦ ocean floor ♦ on a higher floor ♦ on a lower floor ♦ on the first floor ♦ on the floor ♦ parquet floor ♦ Pelvic Floor ♦ price floor ♦ privilege of the floor ♦ roadway floor ♦ roof and floor strata ♦ scatter the floor with paper ♦ scrabble on the floor for smth. ♦ sea floor ♦ second floor ♦ shop floor ♦ shop floor agreement ♦ Story floor ♦ surface of a floor ♦ take the floor ♦ textile floor covering with pile ♦ the floor ♦ Thrashing floor ♦ threshing floor ♦ trading floor ♦ valley floor ♦ vehicle floor ♦ wage floor ♦ wash the floor ♦ wipe the floor ♦ wipe the floor with ♦ wipe the floor with smb. ♦ yield the floor to smb.. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "floor": floor-board, floor-boards, floor-by-floor, Floor-coverers, floor-covering, floor-cross, floor-cushion, floor-fresco, floor-games, floor-killing, floor-layer, floor-length, floor-level, floor-lights, floor-maintaining, floor-mat, floor-mop, floor-mounted, floor-pan, floor-pans, floor-plan, floor-plans, floor-plates, floor-polish, floor-rumbling, floor-show, floor-space, floor-standing, floor-strewn, floor-sweeping, floor-to-ceiling, floor-to-floor, floor-walker, floor-wax, floor-what. | |
Ending with "floor": dance-floor, fifth-floor, first-floor, fourth-floor, low-floor, sea-floor, second-floor, shop-floor, sixth-floor, sub-floor, third-floor, top-floor, under-floor, upper-floor. | |
Containing "floor": tri-floor-oom. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
floor plan | 3,473 | armstrong floor | 241 |
hardwood floor | 2,238 | hoover floor mate | 241 |
floor tile | 1,809 | bamboo floor | 239 |
house floor plan | 1,224 | auto floor mat | 219 |
floor lamp | 1,211 | concrete floor | 207 |
floor | 1,175 | modular home floor plan | 195 |
wood floor | 1,106 | garage floor paint | 184 |
home floor plan | 908 | mannington floor | 184 |
floor mat | 720 | dance floor | 180 |
laminate floor | 642 | floor screen | 177 |
ceramic floor tile | 516 | automotive floor mat | 177 |
floor covering | 509 | floor painting | 169 |
bruce hardwood floor | 367 | new home floor plan | 169 |
pergo floor | 313 | floor buffer | 169 |
car floor mat | 310 | manufactured home floor plan | 168 |
log home floor plan | 305 | floor sander | 162 |
mobile home floor plan | 303 | hard wood floor | 161 |
hardwood floor refinishing | 271 | vinyl floor tile | 156 |
kitchen floor plan | 251 | floor pillow | 156 |
garage floor | 250 | marble floor | 153 |
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| Language | Translations for "floor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | verdieping (storey, story). (various references) | |
Albanian | kat (pair of stairs, storey, story), dysheme (flooring). (various references) | |
Arabic | مقاعد الأعضاء في البرلمان, هزم (bear down, beat, best, checkmate, clobber, defeat, dish, dump, finish, foil, go down, hold down, knock off, knock out, lick, outdo, outvote, overcome, overpower, pip, sink, skunk, smash, stop, thrash, vanquish, vote down, whip, wipe out, wipe the floor with smb.), قعر (bed, bottom, concave, depth, dish, foot, hollow), حير (baffle, befog, bewilder, confound, distract, flummox, fluster, mystify, nonplus, perplex, put off one's fears, puzzle, riddle, vex), حق الكلام, طابق (conform, flat, identity, storey, stratify, tier), طرح (deduct, excrete, fling, heave, lay, molt, moult, posit, put aside, put away, reject, squirt, subtract, subtraction, take away, throw away, toss), صرع (bring down, bump, cut down, knock down, pick off, poleaxe, strike, stun), الحد الأدنى (minimum), أعضاء مجلس, أرضية (flooring), أرض (amphitheatre, earth, ground, grounds, land, site, soil, terrain, territory, topsoil), أربك (baffle, bamboozle, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bother, buffalo, confound, confuse, demoralize, discompose, disconcert, disorientate, embarrass, embrangle, entangle, fluster, fox, fret, fuddle, gravel, molest, muckrake, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put out, puzzle, ravel, show up, squirm, stop, stumble, stump, vex), دور (age, circle, cycle, function, part, place, refrain, role, round, say, storey, turn), بلط أرضية. (various references) | |
Asturian | suelu. (various references) | |
Aymara | oraqe. (various references) | |
Basque | lur. (various references) | |
Bemba | panshi. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | kaapoksiinimaan. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отговарям правилно, озадачавам (bepuzzle, bewilder, flummox, hobble, intrigue, maze, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, rattle, stick, stick up for, stumble, stump, vex), настилка (ground, lagging, overlay, pave), ниско ниво, затварям устата на (fix, quench), етаж (level, storey, story), повалям (blow down, bring down, deck, drop, fell, flatten, fling down, hew, knock down, lay low, lay out, level, overthrow, pole-ax, precipitate, prostrate, run down, shoot down, stretch out, strike, strike down, throw down, tumble down, zap), подов, под (below, beneath, ground, in, infra, on, to, under, underneath), дъно на море, долна граница, долен лимит. (various references) | |
Cebuano | salog. (various references) | |
Chamorro | pisu. (various references) | |
Chinese | 地板 . (various references) | |
Cornish | lür. (various references) | |
Czech | podlaha (flooring). (various references) | |
Danish | etage (storey, story), gulv. (various references) | |
Dutch | verdieping (storey, story), etage (storey, story), vloer (ceiling, invert, platform, raft, truck bed). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | allpa (earth). (various references) | |
Esperanto | planko, etaĝo (storey, story). (various references) | |
Faeroese | gólv. (various references) | |
Farsi | کف سازی کردن , کف زمین , کف اطاق , شکست دادن (Defeat, Drub, Outdo, Skunk, Smash, Smite, Trounce, Vanquish, Worst), بزمین زدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | lattia, kerros (layer, storey, story, stratum). (various references) | |
French | plancher (floor plate), étage (flat). (various references) | |
Frisian | flier, ferdjipping (storey, story), boaiem (bottom, foundation, ground). (various references) | |
German | Stockwerk (storey, story), Etage (level, storey, story, tier), Boden (attic, base, bottom, earth, foundation, ground, land, loft, seabed, seat, soil, terrain), Fußboden (flooring), stock (baton, cane, cue, massif, pointer, pot plant, rock mass, roots, rosebush, staff, stick, stock, stocks, storey, story, vine), sohle (bed, bottom, insole, level, sole), Geschoß (missile, projectile, storey, story). (various references) | |
Greek | όροφος (storey), πάτωμα (storey, story), δάπεδο (decking, invert). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | kat (storey, story), dysheme. (various references) | |
Hebrew | להביס (beat, checkmate, defeat, skunk, thrash), להטיל ארצה (fling), קרקע (bottom, earth, ground, land, soil), דיוטה (storey), רשות הדבור, רצפה (flooring). (various references) | |
Hungarian | padló (boarding, bridging, flooring, sealing), emelet (flight, storey, story). (various references) | |
Icelandic | gólf. (various references) | |
Indonesian | lantai. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | natiq. (various references) | |
Irish | urlÚr, urlár, t-urlár, hurlár. (various references) | |
Italian | piano (arrangement, deck, design, even, flat, gently, in a low voice, level, level land, map, piano, plain, plan, plane, plot, project, schedule, scheme, shallow, slow, smooth, storey, story, tabulate, tier), pavimento (flooring), fondo (back, background, bed, bottom, deep, depth, dregs, end, estate, foundation, fund, ground, heart, lowness, nature, profound, property, seat, sole). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 床. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フロアー , フロア (follower), ゆか. (various references) | |
Korean | 지면. (various references) | |
Lombard | soeul. (various references) | |
Macedonian | pod. (various references) | |
Malay | lantai. (various references) | |
Manx | laaraghey (centralization, centralize, lay, lay as floor). (various references) | |
Maori | whoroa. (various references) | |
Norwegian | etasje (storey, story). (various references) | |
Occitan | sòl. (various references) | |
Papago | wahkus. (various references) | |
Papiamen | suela, piso (storey, story). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oorflay.(various references) | |
Polish | podłoga, piętro (storey, story). (various references) | |
Portuguese | andar (ambulate, gait, go, march, march off, pace, pass, retreat, ride, roam, slouch, stalk, step, storey, story, stream, stride, to walk, traipse, travel, tread, walk), assoalho (flooring), soalho (pavement), pavimento (flooring, pave, pavement, paving, storey, story), fundo (back, background, bottom, deep, depth, foundation, fund, gist, ground, grounding, groundwork, milieu, profound, rock bottom, sole, sunken, undercurrent). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | andar (to walk). (various references) | |
Provencal | sòl. (various references) | |
Romanian | etaj (flat, storey, story). (various references) | |
Romany | deshemès. (various references) | |
Ruanda | isima. (various references) | |
Russian | ставить в тупик (baffle, bewilder, confound, perplex, pose), этаж (level, storey, story), справиться (manage with, master, pull through), флор, одолеть (master, whop), настилать пол (board), пол;этаж, пол (flooring, gender, paul, sex, sexes), перекрытие (ceiling, overlap, overlay), дно (bottom, cover). (various references) | |
Samoan | fola. (various references) | |
Scottish | làr (ground floor, the ground). (various references) | |
Sepedi | lebato. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sprat (story), praviti pod, pod (below, beneath, ground, on, sub, under, underneath). (various references) | |
Shona | pasi. (various references) | |
Sicilian | ntavulatu. (various references) | |
Spanish | piso (apartment, deck, earth, flat, flooring, rooms, sole, storey, story, tier), suelo (bottom, clearcole, deck, earth, foundation, ground, grunt, land, soil), fondo (back, backdrop, background, bottom, deep, depth, fund, ground, long distance, rock bottom, seat, term). (various references) | |
Swazi | sí-yílo. (various references) | |
Swedish | våning (apartment, flat, storey, story, suite), golv (flooring). (various references) | |
Thai | พื้น, ชั้นอาคาร, ทำให้งง (mystify, puzzle). (various references) | |
Turkish | zemin (backcloth, backdrop, background, bed, ground, ground-, groundwork, level, stage), yere yıkmak (fell), yenmek (annihilate, bear down, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, confound, conquer, cut out, defeat, discomfit, down, get the better of, give a beating, knock out, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, skunk, slam, smash, subjugate, surmount, swamp, thrash, trim, triumph, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wear down, whelm, whip, whop, win over, wipe the floor with smb., worst), tam gaz vermek (gun), taban (base, basement, bedrock, fundament, girder, sill, sole, substratum, substructure), pist (airfield, cinder path, course, landing field, path, ring, runway, scat, shoo, strip, tarmac, track), kat (coat, coating, deck, fall, flat, fold, lap, layer, multiple, pile, ply, stair, storey, story), köklemek, düzlük (esplanade, evenness, Fen, flat, flatness, level, plain, plainness, platform, straight), döşemek (appoint, furnish, inlay, lay down, spread, upholster, veneer), döşeme (appointments, floor covering, furnishings, laying, pavement, planking, upholstery), şaşırtmak (addle, amaze, astonish, astound, baffle, bamboozle, bedevil, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, confuse, daze, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dislocate, disorient, disorientate, distract, embarrass, embrangle, flabbergast, flummox, fuddle, give smb. a tumble, gravel, intrigue, jolt, knock back, mislead, moither, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, put smb. out of countenance, puzzle, rattle, shock, startle, stick, stun, stupefy, surprise, take aback, wow), afallatmak (amaze, astonish, astound, confuse, daze, flabbergast, flummox, stump, stun, stupefy). (various references) | |
Turkmen | pol (r) (half, sex), gat (layer). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | настилати підлогу (board), збити з ніг (lay out, prop), підлога (deck, flooring), поверх (atop, storey), дно (base, bottom). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tầng một (first floor), tầng hai (first floor). (various references) | |
Welsh | llawr (earth, ground, storey). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ur. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | contignatio, contignationem, sola, sole, soli, solis, solo, solum, tabulata, tabulatis, tabulatum, tristega. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | flet, flor. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | fond. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 39 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ote de hmera egeneto thn ghn ouk epeginwskon kolpon de tina katenooun econta aigialon eiV on ebouleusanto ei dunainto exwsai to ploion |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cum autem dies factus esset terram non agnoscebant sinum vero quendam considerabant habentem litus in quem cogitabant si possent eicere navem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne the dai was comun, thei knewen no lond; and thei bihelden an hauene that hadde a watir bank, in to which thei thouyten, if thei miyten, to bringe vp the schip. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Whe yt was daye they knew not ye lande but they spied a certayne haven with a banke into ye which they were mynded (yf yt were possible) to thrust in the ship. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into which they purposed, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when it was day, they had no knowledge of the land, but they saw an inlet of the sea with a floor of sand, and they had the idea of driving the ship up on to it if possible. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 39 |
| Albanian | Dhe kur u gdhi, nuk e njihnin dot vendin, por vunë re një gji me një breg dhe vendosën ta shtyjnë anijen aty, po të mundnin. |
| Cebuano | Ug sa pagkaadlaw na, wala sila makaila niadtong yutaa, apan nakita nila ang usa ka luok nga may baybayon nga niini ilang gilaraw ang pagpasangyad sa sakayan kon mahimo man ugaling. |
| Croatian | Kad osvanu, mornari ne prepoznaše zemlje; razabraše neki zaljev ravne obale pa odluèe, bude li moguæe, u nj zavesti laðu. |
| Danish | Men da det blev Dag, kendte de ikke Landet; men de bemærkede en Vig med en Forstrand, som de besluttede, om muligt, at sætte Skibet ind på. |
| Dutch | En toen het dag werd, kenden zij het land niet; maar zij merkten een zekeren inham, die een oever had, tegen denwelken zij geraden vonden, zo zij konden, het schip aan te zetten. |
| Finnish | Päivän tultua he eivät tunteneet maata, mutta huomasivat lahden, jossa oli sopiva ranta; siihen he päättivät, jos mahdollista, laskea laivan. |
| French | Lorsque le jour fut venu, ils ne reconnurent point la terre; mais, ayant aperçu un golfe avec une plage, ils résolurent d`y pousser le navire, s`ils le pouvaient. |
| German | Da es aber Tag ward, kannten sie das Land nicht; einer Anfurt aber wurden sie gewahr, die hatte ein Ufer; dahinan wollten sie das Schiff treiben, wo es möglich wäre. |
| Haitian Creole | Lè solèy leve, marin yo pa t' rekonèt tè a. Men, yo wè yon lans ak yon bèl plaj. Yo fè lide pran chans ale fè tè la. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Waktu hari sudah siang, awak kapal melihat daratan, tetapi mereka tidak tahu daratan apa itu. Mereka melihat sebuah teluk dengan pantainya. Jadi mereka bermaksud mendaratkan kapal di sana kalau dapat. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah siang hari, maka tiada dikenalnya daratan itu, tetapi dilihatnya suatu teluk yang berpantai; maka berikhtiarlah mereka itu kalau-kalau dapat mendamparkan kapal itu ke sana. |
| Italian | Fattosi giorno non riuscivano a riconoscere quella terra, ma notarono un'insenatura con spiaggia e decisero, se possibile, di spingere la nave verso di essa. |
| Maori | A ka ao te ra kihai ratou i mohio ki tera whenua; engari i kite ratou i tetahi kokoru he one to reira, a ka mea ratou me kore e ahei te aki atu i te kaipuke ki roto. |
| Norwegian | Da det nu blev dag, kjente de ikke landet, men de blev var en vik som hadde en strand; der bestemte de sig til å sette skibet på land om det var mulig. |
| Portuguese | Quando amanheceu, não reconheciam a terra; divisavam, porém, uma enseada com uma praia, e consultavam se poderiam nela encalhar o navio. |
| Rumanian | Cknd s`a fqcut ziuq, n`au cunoscut pqmkntul; dar au vqzut de departe un golf, care avea maluri nisipoase, wi au hotqrkt sq kmpingq corabia kntr`acolo, dacq va fi cu putinyq. |
| Shuar | Tura tsawarmatai wiantin armia nu, nunkan nekaacharmiayi. Túrasha énkentamunam Káanmatak aan Wáinkiar "Ai kanu anuntai" tiarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Cuando se hizo de día, no reconocían la tierra; pero distinguían una bahía que tenía playa, en la cual, de ser posible, se proponían varar la nave. |
| Swahili | Kulipokucha, wanamaji hawakuweza kuitambua nchi ile, ila waliona ghuba moja yenye ufuko; wakaamua kutia nanga huko kama ikiwezekana. |
| Swedish | När det blev dag, kände de icke igen landet; men de blevo varse en vik med låg strand och beslöto då att, om möjligt, låta skeppet driva upp på denna. |
| Uma | Kamobaja-nami, rahilo topobago hi kapal kahiloa-mi role-na. Aga uma ra'incai ba napa hanga' ngata toe. Pai' rahilo wo'o, etu-mi mai huno tahi' hante talinti to uma watua. Toe pai' patuju-ra ane rakule', mencore hi mai-ra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "floor": floorage, floorages, floorboard, floorboards, floorcloth, floorcloths, floored, floorer, floorers, flooring, floorings, floors, floorwalker, floorwalkers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "floor": seafloor, subfloor. (additional references) | |
Words containing "floor": seafloors, subfloors. (additional references) | |
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"Floor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: filiform, filor, flanor, flator, flaur, flior, floar, flogo, flohr, floj, flooar, flooer, floon, floop, floore, floot, floow, floox, flooz, flor, flore, Florek, Floto, Flotow, flowr, fluor, flur, folor, folorn, foor, fulforn, Fwoar, loor, sloor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "floor" (pronounced flô"r) |
| 3 | -l ô" r | deplore, explore, galore, implore, lore. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-l-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: fool, loof, rolf, roof. | |
-2 letters: for, fro, loo. | |
-3 letters: lo, of, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-l-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: floors, formol. | |
+2 letters: flooder, floored, floorer, foolery, footler, foozler, forlorn, formols, odorful, reflood, roomful. | |
+3 letters: aerofoil, coliform, colorful, flooders, floorage, floorers, flooring, flopover, folderol, folklore, follower, footlers, foozlers, forelock, foretold, fourfold, foveolar, moorfowl, odourful, oilproof, overflow, overfoul, refloods, roofless, rooflike, roofline, roomfuls, seafloor, subfloor, workfolk. | |
+4 letters: aerofoils, coliforms, colorfast, colorific, conformal, floorages, floorings, flopovers, flowerpot, fluoroses, fluorosis, fluorotic, folderols, folklores, folkloric, followers, fooleries, foolhardy, foolisher, foolproof, foreclose, forelocks, forlorner, forlornly, fossorial, foulbrood, frivolous, hydrofoil, leakproof, moorfowls, mycoflora, nonformal, nongolfer, olfactory, overflown, overflows, portfolio, reflooded, rooflines, seafloors, sorrowful, subfloors, workfolks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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