to floor

Definition of to floor in English English dictionary: To amaze or greatly surprise
We were floored by his confession.; The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge
Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.; The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit; The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room
The room has a wooden floor.; An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; To cover or furnish with a floor
floor a house with pine boards.; To silence by a conclusive answer or retort
Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge.; 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!.; Hence, the right to speak at a given time in a legislative assembly
The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.; That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal; To finish or make an end of
I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes.; A horizontal, flat ore body; flr; {v} to lay a bottom to a room; {n} the bottom of a room, a story; the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"; To slam something down to a floor; the parliamentary right to address an assembly; "the chairman granted him the 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); 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; 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; knock down with force; "He decked his opponent"; The lower limit for the interest rate on a floating-rate security; ~ The lower limit for the interest rate on a floating-rate bond; To strike down or lay level (something or someone) with the floor; to knock (something or someone) down; A story of a building; To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards; the ground on which people and animals move about; "the fire spared the forest floor"; The floor of a stock exchange is the large open area where trading is done. the dealing floor at Standard Chartered Bank; {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; 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; An agreement with a counterparty that sets a lower limit to interest rates for the floor buyer for a stated time period; The floor in a place such as a club or disco is the area where people dance; To silence (someone) by a conclusive answer or retort; 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; 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; 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; 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; The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported; The right to speak; A storey/story of a building; 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; The lower inside surface of a hollow space; {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; 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; 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); 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; The largest integer less than or equal to a given number; The structure formed of beams, girders, etc; a large room in a stock exchange where the trading is done; "he is a floor trader"; 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; the interior chamber of the House or Senate, where members meet to introduce and debate legislation; The chamber area in which the members of either house sit to consider official legislative action; A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories; [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 ”; The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge; The area of a legislative chamber which is occupied by the members and staff of the body; This is the integer round-down of a value, x; To finish or make an end of (something); Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2; To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination; Reference to the interior of the chamber of either house Floor action suggests consideration by the entire House or Senate rather than committee action; the bottom surface of any a cave or lake etc; 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; 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 ”); A traditional term for the meeting chamber of either house; the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business; "there was a motion from the floor"; In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery; The area within the bar in both the House and Senate Chambers; The part of the house assigned to the members

to floor

Turkish pronunciation

tı flôr

Pronunciation

/tə ˈflôr/ /tə ˈflɔːr/

Etymology

[ t&, tu, 'tü ] (preposition.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English tO; akin to Old High German zuo to, Latin donec as long as, until.