the floor

Definition of the floor in English English dictionary: The part of a legislative assembly in which members sit and from which they speak; permission to speak; flat surface at the bottom of the room on which one walks
floor: To amaze or greatly surprise
We were floored by his confession.
floor: The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge
Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
floor: The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit
floor: The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room
The room has a wooden floor.
floor: An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface
floor: To cover or furnish with a floor
floor a house with pine boards.
floor: To silence by a conclusive answer or retort
Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge.
floor: To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down
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!.
floor: Hence, the right to speak at a given time in a legislative assembly
The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
floor: That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal
floor: To finish or make an end of
I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes.
floor: A horizontal, flat ore body
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floor: {v} to lay a bottom to a room
floor: {n} the bottom of a room, a story
floor: the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"
floor: To slam something down to a floor
floor: the parliamentary right to address an assembly; "the chairman granted him the floor"
floor: That portion of a legislative chamber reserved for legislators, staff, and other persons granted access during Session Gallery The balcony of a legislative chamber from which visitors may view proceedings General Assembly (Legislature)The branch of State government responsible for enacting laws In Illinois, legislative power is vested in the General Assembly The General Assembly is a continuous body during the term for which members of the House of Representatives are elected (2 years)
floor: The place where official debates and discussions are held, especially between members of parliament, is referred to as the floor. The issues were debated on the floor of the House
floor: the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors" structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building; "what level is the office on?" a large room in a stock exchange where the trading is done; "he is a floor trader" the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business; "there was a motion from the floor" the parliamentary right to address an assembly; "the chairman granted him the floor" a lower limit; "the government established a wage floor" the occupants of a floor; "the whole floor complained about the lack of heat" the bottom surface of any a cave or lake etc
floor: knock down with force; "He decked his opponent"
floor: The lower limit for the interest rate on a floating-rate security
floor: ~ The lower limit for the interest rate on a floating-rate bond
floor: To strike down or lay level (something or someone) with the floor; to knock (something or someone) down
floor: A story of a building
floor: To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards
floor: the ground on which people and animals move about; "the fire spared the forest floor"
floor: The floor of a stock exchange is the large open area where trading is done. the dealing floor at Standard Chartered Bank
floor: {i} flat surface at the bottom of the room on which one walks; story, level of a building; ground surface; area in a conference room from which the members speak; permission to speak
floor: If you take the floor, you start speaking in a debate or discussion. If you are given the floor, you are allowed to do this. Ministers took the floor to denounce the decision to suspend constitutional rule Only members would be given the floor
floor: An agreement with a counterparty that sets a lower limit to interest rates for the floor buyer for a stated time period
floor: The floor in a place such as a club or disco is the area where people dance
floor: To silence (someone) by a conclusive answer or retort
floor: A floor of a building is all the rooms that are on a particular level. It is on the fifth floor of the hospital They occupied the first two floors of the tower. = storey
floor: In a debate or discussion, the floor is the people who are listening to the arguments being put forward but who are not among the main speakers. The president is taking questions from the floor
floor: If you take to the floor, you start dancing at a dance or disco. The happy couple and their respective parents took to the floor
floor: If you wipe the floor with someone, you defeat them completely in a competition or discussion. He could wipe the floor with the Prime Minister. see also factory floor. Rigid building assembly that divides space horizontally into stories. It forms the bottom of a room. It may consist of joist-supported wood planks or panels, decking or panels supported by wood or steel beams, a slab of stone or concrete on the ground, or a reinforced-concrete slab carried by concrete beams and columns. The floor assembly must support its own dead load plus the live load of occupants, activities, and furnishings. The horizontal supports beneath its top surface and the vertical supports into which they frame must be sufficiently large and spaced closely enough to prevent sagging of the assembly
floor: The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported
floor: The right to speak
floor: A storey/story of a building
floor: The area of a stock exchange where active trading occurs Also the price at which a stop order is activated (when the price drops low enough to activate such an order) In context of interest rates, a level which an interest rate or currency is structured not to go below
floor: The lower inside surface of a hollow space
floor: {f} make a floor; cover a floor (i.e. with tiles); knock to the ground, knock down; press the gas pedal all the way down; astound, shock
floor: The huge trading area - about the size of a football field - where stocks, bonds and options are bought and sold on the New York Stock Exchange
floor: 1) An alternate tam meaning Range (a limit on the amount the signal is reduced when the input signal is low by an expander or gate) 2) A shortening of the term Noise Floor (the level of the noise)
floor: If you say that prices or sales have fallen through the floor, you mean that they have suddenly decreased. Property prices have dropped through the floor
floor: The largest integer less than or equal to a given number
floor: The structure formed of beams, girders, etc
floor: a large room in a stock exchange where the trading is done; "he is a floor trader"
floor: The floor of a room is the part of it that you walk on. Jack's sitting on the floor watching TV We painted the wooden floor with a white stain
floor: the interior chamber of the House or Senate, where members meet to introduce and debate legislation
floor: The chamber area in which the members of either house sit to consider official legislative action
floor: A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories
floor: [1] The portion of the Senate and House chamber reserved for members, officers of each chamber, and invited guests [2] the right of a member to speak during debate, as in “The Senator from Wisconsin has the floor ”
floor: The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge
floor: The area of a legislative chamber which is occupied by the members and staff of the body
floor: This is the integer round-down of a value, x
floor: To finish or make an end of (something)
floor: Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2
floor: To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination
floor: Reference to the interior of the chamber of either house Floor action suggests consideration by the entire House or Senate rather than committee action
floor: the bottom surface of any a cave or lake etc
floor: To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent
floor: That lower portion of the building envelope, including opaque area and fenestration, that has conditioned or semiheated space above and is horizontal or tilted at an angle of less than 60 degrees from horizontal but excluding slab-on-grade floors For the purposes of determining building envelope requirements, the classifications are defined as follows: Mass floor: A floor with a heat capacity that exceeds (1) 7 Btu/ft2 HE F or (2) 5 Btu/ft2 HE F provided that the floor has a material unit weight not greater than 120 lb/ft3 Steel joist floor: A floor that (1) is not a mass floor and (2) which has steel joist members supported by structural members Wood framed and other floors: All other floor types, including wood joist floors (See “Building envelope”, “Fenestration”, “Opaque area”, and “Slab-on-grade floor ”)
floor: A traditional term for the meeting chamber of either house
floor: the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business; "there was a motion from the floor"
floor: In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery
floor: The area within the bar in both the House and Senate Chambers
floor: The part of the house assigned to the members
floor: The area of the legislative chamber occupied by the members and staff of the house A legislator "has the floor" when he or she has been granted permission by the presiding officer to address the house
floor: To cover (something) with a floor; to furnish (something) with a floor
floor: The minimum market amount at which inventory can be carried on the books; equal to net realizable value minus a normal profit
floor: structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building; "what level is the office on?"
floor: the occupants of a floor; "the whole floor complained about the lack of heat"
floor: The interior chamber of the House or Senate, where Members meet to introduce and deliberate proposed legislation Action "on the floor" is that which occurs as part of a formal session of the full Senate An action "from the floor" is one taken by a Senator during a session of the Senate A Senator who has been recognized to speak by the Chair is said to "have the floor "
floor: The ocean floor is the ground at the bottom of an ocean. The valley floor is the ground at the bottom of a valley
floor: the lowest limit of performance that can be assessed or measured by an instrument or process Individuals who perform near to or below this lower limit are said to have reached the floor, and the assessment may not be providing a valid estimate of their performance levels Such individuals should be given a less difficult assessment of the same attribute if it is necessary to differentiate between lower levels of performance See Ceiling, Functional-Level Testing
floor: a lower limit; "the government established a wage floor"
floor: If you are floored by something, you are unable to respond to it because you are so surprised by it. He was floored by the announcement He seemed floored by a string of scandals. see also floored, flooring, dance floor, first floor, ground floor, shop floor
floor: The lowest the interest rate on a variable or adjustable rate mortgage may go
floor: the ground on which people and animals move about; "the fire spared the forest floor
floor: with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories
floor: surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
floor: A contract whereby the seller agrees to pay to the purchaser in return for the payment of a premium, the difference between current interest rates and an agreed (strike) rate times the notional amount, should interest rates fall below the agreed rate A floor contract is effectively a string of interest rate guarantees
floor: Reference to the interior of the chamber "Floor action" refers to action in the chamber on a measure under consideration
floor: Interest-rate option that guarantees that the rate on a floating-rate loan will not fall below a certain level

the floor

Turkish pronunciation

dhi flôr

Pronunciation

/ᴛʜē ˈflôr/ /ðiː ˈflɔːr/

Etymology

[ before consonants usually ] (definite article.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English thE, masc. demonstrative pronoun & definite article, alteration of sE; akin to Greek ho, masculine demonstrative pronoun & definite article; more at THAT.