floors
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Definitions
noun
- The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.“The room has a wooden floor.”
- Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
- The lower inside surface of a hollow space.“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.
verb
- To cover or furnish with a floor.“floor a house with pine boards”
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- (driving) To accelerate rapidly.“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!”
- To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.“Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge”
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