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floor
Noun
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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.
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A floor is a level of a building.
To get to room 302 you have to go up three floors.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
odds
Noun
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In statistics, the odds are the chance something will happen divided by the chance it will not happen:
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# If "p" is the odds it will happen: math\frac{p}{1 - p}/math
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# The odds something will not happen: math\frac{1 - p}{p}/math
What are the odds of winning in this game?
The odds of rolling a six are one in six, or 1 / 6.
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The odds of something happening are the chances it will happen.
I don't like the odds here.
The odds of rolling a six are one in six, or 1 / 6.