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floor
English
Etymology
From Middle English flor, flore, from Old English fl?r (“floor, pavement, ground, bottom”), from Proto-Germanic *fl?r?, *fl?rô, *fl?raz (“flat surface, floor, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?- (“flat”). Cognate with West Frisian flier (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Flur (“field, floor, entrance hall”), Swedish flor (“floor of a cow stall”), Irish urlár (“floor”), Scottish Gaelic làr (“floor, ground, earth”), Welsh llawr (“floor, ground”), Latin pl?nus (“level, flat”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: flô, IPA(key): /fl??/
- (General American) enPR: flôr, IPA(key): /fl??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: fl?r, IPA(key): /flo(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /flo?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: flaw (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
- Homophones: flow, floe (non-rhotic with dough-door merger (AAVE, non-rhotic Southern accents))
Noun
floor (plural floors)
- The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
- Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
- The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
- A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- A storey/story of a building.
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
- (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
- (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- (finance) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
- A dance floor.
- 1983, "Maniac", Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky:
- She's a maniac, maniac on the floor / And she's dancing like she never danced before
- 1987, "Walk the Dinosaur", Was (Not Was):
- Open the door, get on the floor / Everybody walk the dinosaur
- 1983, "Maniac", Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky:
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
Synonyms
- (bottom part of a room): see Thesaurus:floor
- (right to speak): possession (UK)
Antonyms
- ceiling
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
floor (third-person singular simple present floors, present participle flooring, simple past and past participle floored)
- To cover or furnish with a floor.
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- (driving, slang) To accelerate rapidly.
- To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
- To amaze or greatly surprise.
- (colloquial) To finish or make an end of.
- (mathematics) To set a lower bound.
Translations
Further reading
- Floor (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Floor in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
References
Anagrams
- Floro
Middle English
Noun
floor
- Alternative form of flor
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elevation
English
Etymology
From Old French elevation, from Latin elevatio, equal to elevate +? -ion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l??ve???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
elevation (countable and uncountable, plural elevations)
- The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.
- the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation to sainthood; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character
- The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
- That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.
- A hill is an elevation of the ground.
- (astronomy) The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude.
- the elevation of the pole, or of a star
- The measured vertical distance from the peak of a mountain or hill to its bordering lowlands.
- The angle which the gnomon makes with the substylar line.
- The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.
- (architecture) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.
- (Christianity) The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.
Antonyms
- disgust
- demotion
- depression
- diminishment
- reduction
Related terms
- elevate
- elevator
- overelevation
Translations
See also
- fasl
- masl
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