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floor

The floor is the flat part at the bottom of a room. People stand on the floor. Don't drop your milk on the floor. The children are sitting on the floor to play. A floor is a level of a building. To get to room 302 you have to go up three floors.

floor

(= flooring) 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 (= level) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale what level is the office on? a lower limit the government established a wage floor the ground on which people and animals move about the fire spared the forest floor the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water the lower inside surface of any hollow structure the floor of the pelvis the floor of the cave the occupants of a floor the whole floor complained about the lack of heat the parliamentary right to address an assembly the chairman granted him the floor a large room in a 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 surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off I was floored when I heard that I was promoted (= deck, knock down) knock down with force He decked his opponent

Synonyms floor synonyms

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Topics floor topics

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Conjugation floor conjugation

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floor · verb

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Simple sentences

Your glasses fell on the floor.
A fire broke out on the first floor.
I took the elevator to the third floor.
The floor was very cold.
Tom walked off the dance floor.
It's on the first floor.
Don't leave your glasses on the floor.
In my new house, the living room is on the ground floor and the bedroom is on the first floor.
Her hair was so long that it reached the floor.
Which floor does he live on?
Tom sat on the floor and cried.
I swept the floor.
I can place the palms of my hands on the floor without bending my knees.
The vase fell to the floor and shattered.
A fire broke out on the fifth floor.
Dennis lay flat on the floor.
The man slumped to the floor.
The doll lay on the floor.
The floor is covered with a thick carpet.
The fire which caused the disaster broke out on the second floor of the hospital.
Pick up the pencil from the floor.
Sue picked up a pencil off the floor.
When I tried to move the desk, one of its legs made a jarring sound as it scraped across the floor.
After asking for my key at the front desk, I took the elevator to my floor.
Please go up to the third floor.
This elevator does not go above the sixth floor.

Movie subtitles

Men sleep on the floor.
Even when I was stuck on the floor in the dark inside of me, there was love.
Do-do I really need to tell you don't take a pill you found on the bathroom floor next to the toilet?
Well, I want to check out her bathroom floor and see what else she has lying around. Hmm.
It's like a pill you found on the bathroom floor.
Who would take a pill they found on the floor?
Now everyone please join the bride and groom - on the dance floor.
I mean, I, I ate a, an old French fry off the floor of my car, but I sh.
It means me wearing holes in the knees of my nylons trying to teach her how to shuffle on her bottom on the floor.
I've got another bill to collect at Monsieur Paulet's, on the floor above.
Monsieur, I present to you to the new tenant on the fifth floor of your building on Evangile Street.
We caught the thief. But who killed the man whose body lies on the floor?
The wrists and ankles of the accused were tied to two iron rods screwed to the floor.
On the first floor of the same house, Councillor Rumfort lives with his two daughters, Grete and Mariandl.
I sleep on the floor.
I'll give him the floor.
We need a false floor in the truck. And we need to bribe the driver, the loaders, and the guards.
In a few seconds he collapses dead on the floor.
And one floor up.
One floor down.
I've lived on the 6th floor for 30 years.
That's when I saw her with the knife on the floor. She didn't move.
Who are the maids on the second floor?
It's on the fourth floor.
Where, on the first floor?
No, it's on the second floor.
Oh, there are three rooms on the second floor.
The one on the top floor.
Then I will be your ally a thousand, even ten thousand times. Even when I was stuck on the floor in the dark inside of me, there was love.
And when she faints, you two help me bring her to the floor.
What? Do-do I really need to tell you don't take a pill you found on the bathroom floor next to the toilet?
Well, I want to check out her bathroom floor and see what else she has lying around.
Feed her on the floor!
Would you like a suite on the third floor?

News and current affairs

Kaufman's approach - with speeches on the Senate floor as a central feature - seemed irrelevant or even quaint to critics even a few weeks ago.
To be sure, the US government is increasing its budget deficits to put a floor under demand.
Emerging markets should start preparing now to ask it for the floor.
Inside the plant, designer yeast cells transform the carbon dioxide released during the coal's combustion into raw materials for floor tiles and other construction supplies.
The captured CO2 would then be injected underground or under the ocean floor for safe long-term storage.
Over the next few months, the US will indeed alter its supply and demand conditions in a way that puts a floor under oil prices and enables a gradual recovery in the market.
The court ruled that a series of social programs should be expanded, in order to provide a basic nutritional floor for all.
Indeed, by putting a floor on the price of sovereign debt and any accompanying inflation, central-bank intervention would reduce the real value of the debt and facilitate repayment.
First, a floor must be put under the international financial system in order to stop its collapse.
In most countries, a basic social-protection floor - which can help countries to mitigate the negative effects of shocks and prevent people from falling deeper into poverty - is affordable.
However, low-income and least-developed countries need assistance in raising the floor to more acceptable levels.
Even the shop floor can be swept better and cheaper by a Roomba robot than by any worker.
Whereas pre-1980 monetary policy tacitly aimed at putting a floor under labor markets to preserve employment and wages, it now tacitly puts a floor under asset prices.
Abroad, Egyptian lawmakers were so exercised over the prospect of the French head of state sharing a bed with his girlfriend that several vented their disapproval on the floor of the parliament.
Its popularity can ebb quickly when it becomes associated with crippling and systemic failure, whether on the battlefield - as in France in 1940 - or in the corporate boardroom and on the factory floor.
Japan's ultra-low interest rate policy was initiated in the 1990's to put a floor under the economy following the bursting of its asset price bubble.
Central banks should put a floor under the value of a country's banking system by committing to buy shares in an index fund of bank stocks at a predetermined price.
Flecks of dried blood peeled up from the floor.
How to assess countries' claims to Arctic territory hinges on the status of the Lomonosov Ridge, a vast formation that rises from the sea floor and stretches 1,800 kilometers from Greenland to the East Siberian continental shelf.
Denmark has hired Swedish icebreakers for repeated expeditions, and Russia has been deploying special submarines to obtain samples from the ridge and the ocean floor.
It also speaks to America's relative position that even the less-than-organized ministers of the European Union acted more quickly to create a floor for the financial crisis than did the US president and congress.
They noticed a noise floor, which turned out to be the radiation left over from the Big Bang.

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