FLOOR

/flɔː/
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Definition

/flɔː/
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.
  5. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
    “Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.”
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”
  5. To amaze or greatly surprise.
    “We were floored by his confession.”

Source: Wiktionary

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