floor (original) (raw)
floor noun (BOTTOM)
the floor
the floor of the floor of the ocean
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Idiom
floor verb (HIT)
floor verb (SURPRISE/CONFUSE)
Idiom
(Definition of floor from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
floor | American Dictionary
floor noun (SURFACE)
floor noun (LEVEL OF BUILDING)
Note:
- In the US, the first floor of a building is usually at ground level.
floor noun (BOTTOM)
floor noun (OPEN SPACE)
floor verb [T] (SURPRISE)
floor verb [T] (GO FAST)
(Definition of floor from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
floor | Business English
drop/fall/go through the floor
have/take the floor
Excuse me, I have the floor and have the right to be listened to.
get in on the ground floor UK informal ( US also get in on the first floor)
(Definition of floor from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of floor
floor
Unfortunately, the cumulative aspect of its errors is often incompatible with an accurate location on irregular floors.
All floors are united through contributing to, and accessing, a common data bank of information and sound.
Horizontally, raised floors and/or dropped ceilings allow endless permutations in the eventual disposition of service outlets.
Most of the structures have multiple rooms and are well constructed, with plastered floors and central room benches.
Whole vessels interred in ritual contexts, as well as sherds from middens, sherd-lined pits, and house floors, are suggestive of larger changes within society.
The platform was then rebuilt into a masonry structure, which was renovated several times and resur faced with new plaster floors.
The ver tical direction represents similarity across floors.
The vast majority of the burials these researchers analyzed are primary burials, and they occur below the concrete floors of residential compounds.
The rooms in these houses had thick plaster floors placed over a well-prepared base composed of small cobblestones.
All of them stressed that on sales floors, at consumers' doorsteps, in purchasing agents' offices, acting was just as necessary as on the stage.
A second type of household cluster consists of two floors (figure 3).
Throughout the paper we omit floors and ceilings whenever this does not affect the argument.
The 1862 scheme shrunk to a footprint of 2ha by going to two floors.
A building is composed of surfaces (walls, ceilings, floors) designed to enclose spaces (rooms) and give them particular form.
The floors of the resurge gullies become covered with resurge breccia and turbiditic sediments.
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Collocations with floor
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There ought to be some provision to give them an opportunity of increasing the height and doing away with the bottom floor.
The continuous line and open squares represents the site at the canyon floor.
The building received a major renovation in 1991 to add carpeted floors, electrical outlets, and central air, as well as the removal of the original leaded glass windows.
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