Word Definition

Floor

  1. To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
  2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent.
  3. The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.
  4. To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination.
  5. That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
  6. The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
  7. A horizontal, flat ore body.
  8. The right to speak.
  9. A story of a building. See Story.
  10. The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.
  11. The part of the house assigned to the members.
  12. The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.