To cover or furnish with a floor: as, to floor a house with pine boards.
To place upon a floor; base.
To place near or on the floor, as a picture in an exhibition.
To strike down or lay level with the floor; beat; conquer; figuratively, to put to silence by some decisive argument, retort, etc.; overcome in any way; overthrow: as, to floor an assailant.
To go through; make an end of; finish.
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That part of a room or of an edifice which forms its lower inclosing surface, and upon which one walks; specifically, the structure, consisting in modern houses of boards, planks, pavement, asphalt, etc., which forms such a surface.
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Any similar construction, platform, or leveled area: as, the floor of a bridge; the charge-floor of a blast-furnace; a threshing-floor.
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A natural surface corresponding to a floor in character or use; a circumscribed basal space or area of any kind: as, the floor of a gorge or a cave; the floor of one of the ventricles of the brain.
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One complete section of a building having one continuous or approximately continuous floor; a story: as, an office on the first floor.
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Nautical, that part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
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In legislative assemblies, the part of the house assigned to the members, and from which they speak; hence, figuratively, the right of speaking or right to be heard in preference to other members: as, the gentleman from New York has the floor.
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In mining, a flat mass of ore.
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A plane; a surface.
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In brewing, same as piece.
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In wood ship-building, same as floor-timber.
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In iron ship-building, the bottom part of a frame, consisting of the floor-plate, frame-bar, and the reverse frame-bar.
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A unit formerly used in the measurement of excavation and embankment.