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floors

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noun

  1. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.“The room has a wooden floor.”
  2. Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
  3. The lower inside surface of a hollow space.“Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.”
  4. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.

verb

  1. To cover or furnish with a floor.“floor a house with pine boards”
  2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
  3. (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!”
  4. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.“Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge”

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