Definition of "floor" in Englisch

noun

1. (countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.

   • The room has a wooden floor.

2. (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).

   • The leaves covering the forest floor provide many hiding-places for small animals.
   • Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
   • The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home.
   • The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been.

3. (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.

   • After stepping off the bus, my wallet fell on the floor.

4. (construction, architecture) A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.

5. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.

   • Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.

6. (architecture, countable) A storey/story of a building.

   • For years we lived on the third floor.

7. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.

8. (by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.

   • Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?
   • The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.

9. (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

10. (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

11. (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.

12. (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.

    • The floor of 4.5 is 4.

13. (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise

14. (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.

15. (finance) A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.

16. A dance floor.

    • She's a maniac, maniac on the floor / And she's dancing like she never danced before
    • Open the door, get on the floor / Everybody walk the dinosaur

17. The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.