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floor in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
    "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
    shock  floor  ball over  blow out of the water  take aback 
  2. knock down with force
    "He decked his opponent"
    deck  coldcock  dump  knock down  floor 
noun
  1. a lower limit
    "the government established a wage floor"
    floor  base 
  2. the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)
    "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent"
    floor  flooring 
  3. a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
    "what level is the office on?"
    floor  level  storey  story 
  4. a large room in a exchange where the trading is done
    "he is a floor trader"
    floor  trading floor 
  5. the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business
    "there was a motion from the floor"
    floor 
  6. the parliamentary right to address an assembly
    "the chairman granted him the floor"
    floor 
  7. the occupants of a floor
    "the whole floor complained about the lack of heat"
    floor 
  8. the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water
    floor 
  9. the ground on which people and animals move about
    "the fire spared the forest floor"
    floor 
  10. the lower inside surface of any hollow structure
    "the floor of the pelvis"; "the floor of the cave"
    floor 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University