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floor

/flɔː/ symbol

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In Latin: solum Wiktionary

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  1. floor function
    floor(4.9) = 4

noun

  1. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
    The room has a wooden floor.
  2. 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.
  3. The ground.
    After stepping off the bus, my wallet fell on the floor.

verb

  1. To cover or furnish with a floor.
    floor a house with pine boards
  2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
  3. To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.

Origin

Inherited from Middle English floor, floour, flor, flore, flour, flur, vlor, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement; deck; gangplank”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“ground; floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).

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