Word Finder - floor

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

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The room has a wooden floor.

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Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).

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The lower inside surface of a hollow space.

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Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.

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

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

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

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A storey/story of a building.

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For years we lived on the third floor.

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

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Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.

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The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.

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

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The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

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A horizontal, flat ore body.

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

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The floor of 4.5 is 4.

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An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.

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A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.

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A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.

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A dance floor.

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The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition

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To cover or furnish with a floor.

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floor a house with pine boards

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

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(driving) To accelerate rapidly.

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As soon as our driver saw an insurgent in a car holding a detonation device, he floored the pedal and was 2,000 feet away when that car bomb exploded. We escaped certain death in the nick of time!

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To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

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Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge

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To amaze or greatly surprise.

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We were floored by his confession.

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To finish or make an end of.

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I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes

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To set a lower bound.

The floor was cold.

The floor creaked as she chose the one on the right.

She placed a plate of food upon the floor and the kitten ate greedily.

Jonny was sprawled on the floor in front of the TV, asleep.

He threw it upon the floor and began to cry.

Brandon was staring at the floor again.

The sides of the tunnel showed before them like the inside of a long spy-glass, and the floor became more level.

He took the lighted pipe that was offered to him, gripped it in his fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he continued to shout.

The boards of the floor creaked.

Next the Wizard poured a pool of oil from the can upon the glass floor, where it covered quite a broad surface.

He moves to second floor.

The hardwood floor had not been stained.

The spell was broken like a dropped mirror on a marble floor.

When we exhausted the subject, Betsy rose and took the floor.

Correct. He made it to an open window on the first floor.

She did several dishes and then heard a chair scrape the floor behind her.

She squirmed and he lowered her to the floor.

Jule wrapped himself in the blanket and stretched out on the floor, hungry and chilled.

He led her to the uppermost floor of the castle, to a hallway with magnificent views of a green valley with towering trees.

Dean sat on the floor next to the lad.

Kris chuckled, at ease with his brother despite the unprotected penthouse on the top floor of a building that could be easily leveled by a single explosive charge.

Hannah stood aside as she entered the large foyer, lecturing her as they ascended to the second floor.

She stepped out of his embrace, the two of them freezing in the middle of the dance floor like rocks in a flowing creek.

She watched in fascination, not understanding what it was until a floor several below hers exploded into flying stone and fire.

The rocket had exploded as it landed on the floor, leaving a gaping hole.

She squeezed through the hole in the wall to find there wasn't enough of the floor left to walk on let alone make it to the door across the apartment.

The rocket slammed into an ambulance parked in front of Andre's, the brilliant explosion throwing heat and light that reached her on what she estimated was the twentieth floor.

The rocket smashed into the floor below, shattering glass and pulverizing part of the balcony.

She forced herself to continue to the apartment's entrance and flung open the door, revealing a hall with auxiliary lighting reflecting off a white marble floor.

A hole in the floor was between her and the elevators.

Lankha retrieved a small satchel from its bed and sat cross-legged on the floor beside her feet, withdrawing small vials and balled gauze.

She followed him up a set of regal stairs to the second floor, where multiple rooms lined a hallway.

Wordlessly, he pointed to a spot on the floor before him.

He led her down a floor to a large gym where a group of men stood in a loose cluster on a mat.

His gaze slid to the floor, and he shook his head ever so slightly, as if trying to shake free an unpleasant thought.

Hannah's eyes widened, and she rose, angling her past the butler and a maid dusting a painting to the second floor.

She forced herself not to cover her tattoo with her hands as she followed her sister to the second floor, where the private rooms were.

Her hand went to her neck, and she threw off the covers, crossing the cold stone floor to the bathroom.

Kris strode past him and led him through the castle's ground floor, whose wide, carpeted halls felt nice on his paws.

Kris lit another torch to shed light on the murals on the floor.

She walked into the hall and up a wide stairwell to the second floor.

She struggled into a sitting position, her neck achy from her spot sleeping on the floor before the fire.

Katie walked to Kris.s chamber on the floor below.

She retreated to her floor and saw Ully in the hall.

The iPad skittered across the floor.

Hannah dropped to the floor beside her, and Lankha inched away while Toby smiled.

Katie followed her into another hallway on the floor where the castle.s serving staff lived.

They charged through the hall toward the stairs and descended to the main floor.

Rhyn led them down the main floor and out the front door, slamming into one of Kris.s Immortals by accident.

He trotted through the body-littered floor to the back stairwell.