Floor
Meanings and phrases
floor
- the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure); flooring
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; level; storey; story
- a lower limit; base
- the ground on which people and animals move about
- the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water
- the lower inside surface of any hollow structure
- the occupants of a floor
- the parliamentary right to address an assembly
- the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business
- a large room in a exchange where the trading is done; trading floor
floor
- knock down with force; deck; coldcock; dump; knock down
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; shock; ball over; blow out of the water; take aback
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- a bare floor polished for dancing
- The floor is a maple sprung dance floor.
- He's pulled to the dance floor by three lovely young ladies.
- Several of the tracks found dance floor success, including "Last Kiss".
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- the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building; ground floor; ground level
- It is housed on the first floor of the building.
- stairs on the first floor, which head upwards).
- The first floor formed an arched entrance to the city.
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- the legislator who organizes his party's strategy
- In 1950 he was the majority floor leader.
- He was a legislative floor leader for Governor Edwin Edwards.
- As majority floor leader, Lamb was ex officio in all committees.
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- scale drawing of a horizontal section through a building at a given level; contrasts with elevation
- The building uses a triangular floor plan.
- The floor plan was for commodity housing.
- The convent church has a Latin cross floor plan, with a dome.
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- a narrow raised platform at the side of a stage in a theater; stagehands can work the ropes controlling equipment in the flies; fly gallery
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- the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building; first floor; ground level
- becoming part of a venture at the beginning (regarded as position of advantage)
- The ground floor porch has been enclosed in glass.
- Cafeteria is at ground floor and TSC at 1st floor.
- The ground floor was designed for military housing.
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- the bottom of a sea or ocean; sea floor; ocean bottom; seabed; sea bottom; Davy Jones's locker; Davy Jones
- When hunting it remains close to the ocean floor.
- The two men spent twenty minutes on the ocean floor.
- In oceanology, bottom water is near the ocean floor.
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- the right to be admitted onto the floor of a legislative assembly while it is in session
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- the bottom of a sea or ocean; ocean floor; ocean bottom; seabed; sea bottom; Davy Jones's locker; Davy Jones
- On striking the sea floor, the rotor would lock.
- They are laid on the bottom of the sea floor.
- The peak rises close to from the sea floor.
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- a large room in a exchange where the trading is done; floor
- The trading floor is now open six hours a week.
- The video is set on a trading floor in what is to be the Swiss Re building (Gherkin Building).
- Peterffy created a major stir among traders by introducing handheld computers onto the trading floor in the early 1980s.
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- Railroad offices were located on the second floor.
- The second floor is occupied by the school Library.
- The assembly hall is located on the second floor.
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- On the third floor were the storeroom and laundry.
- On the third floor are booths television services.
- In 1980 the middle school moved to the third floor.
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- The king's residence was located in the upper floor.
- The upper floor was reached by means of a rope ladder.
- Two rooms on the upper floor are decorated with flower motifs.
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- The top floor was unfinished with a Triple Shrine.
- The façade has a round arches gallery on the top floor.
- The top floor of the Arcade is exclusively a food court.
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- They rented floor space in a building on Michigan Avenue.
- The floor space is about 5,000 square feet on each floor.
- (=1,100 mu) with a floor space of 460,000㎡.
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- The stores in the tower range from in floor area.
- The floor area is open for general admission.
- It has a floor area of and can hold up to 150,000 books.
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- She had the fourth highest score on floor exercise.
- Ross competed on uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise.
- During the team final McCallum competed on only vault and floor exercise.
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- The main floor was used as a nightclub from 1999 to 2011.
- On the main floor is a branch of the Oxford County Library.
- White women worked on the main floor.
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- The fourth floor had a clock and a state coat of arms.
- During the 1980s a fourth floor was added to the house.
- The fourth floor presents biblical history and archaeology.
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- In the ancient past, the valley floor was blocked.
- A path along a wooded valley floor would be a typical example.
- Boulder Valley was so named on account of the boulders the valley floor contains.
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- The tip of the pyramid is suspended above floor level.
- A continuous ventilation flap was also provided on the wall at floor level.
- The tower has squared shingles and cornice line brackets at the top floor level.
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- The mansion had 20 rooms, ten of them on each floor.
- There are variation in depth of each floor.
- The floor space is about 5,000 square feet on each floor.
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- They fly just a few meters above the forest floor.
- It is a long drop to the forest floor below...
- It is commonly found in forest floor, rocky hillslopes.
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- a large commons area is also present on the lower floor.
- Only the lower floor of cave 6 was finished.
- The lower floor served as a storeroom.
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- The interior floor has a low ridge in the northern half.
- The interior floor contains no features or impacts of note.
- Parts of the interior floor of Darwin have been resurfaced.
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- They lived together on the fifth floor of the Chabad House.
- On the fifth floor visitors can enjoy long-distance views as far as the Cologne area.
- Both also have green roofs and fifth floor doubles and suites that open to the outside.
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- The verandah has a concrete floor and a raked ceiling lined in flat sheets.
- A hole was dug for the camera, which required drilling into the concrete floor.
- He dug out the basement, placed a concrete floor, and prepared it for construction of the final layout.
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- This floor contains models of historical events.
- The first floor contains a memorial to Dove and Grogan.
- The second floor contains two more bedrooms.
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- Fanlike terra cotta motifs were inserted above second floor windows.
- Sharpshooters used the mill's upper floor windows to defend the pass.
- Some first floor windows at the western end of the southern wall are modern replacements.
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- This indicated serious fire in the attic floor above.
- The hospital was situated on the floor above the dining room.
- The ceremonial balcony on the floor above gives the entrance horizontal emphasis.
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- In 1975, Calder crossed the floor to join the Social Credit Party of British Columbia and was re-elected.
- Finally in late 1933 the Liberals crossed the floor of the House of Commons and went into complete opposition.
- Labor leader John Curtin became prime minister in October 1941 when two independents crossed the floor of Parliament.
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- The building's total floor area is .
- It have a total floor area of in which are used for commercial purposes.
- Renaissance Centre has a total floor space of spread across its 14 floors.
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- Students are able to choose from multiple floor plans.
- People wrote the magazine asking for the floor plans, but none existed.
- Inside, the floor plans reflect the two sections' separate construction.
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- The low floor makes the train easier to access for the disabled.
- They are low floor, fully air conditioned, and can operate at high speeds.
- Production stopped in 1997 when it was replaced by the low floor Marshall Capital.
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- The blast was reported to be caused by a hand grenade exploding after it fell onto the floor of the bus.
- Meanwhile, Grace finds a photograph that has fallen out of the book of the dead onto the floor under some furniture.
- The freshman was asleep in his bed when he was pushed onto the floor, where he smashed his head, resulting in his death.
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- For the first to third floor is for male and the forth to sixth floor is for female.
- 55 boxes of material were removed to the classified storage area on the sixth floor.
- Offices were located on the sixth floor of the Volunteer Building on Peachtree Street.
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- The first floor houses the "Director's Office" and "Cashier".
- The first floor houses 14 halls which are quite huge in size.
- The top-most floor houses the museum's administration offices.
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- In-situ floor tiles were found, along with other pottery, and small finds.
- The abbey is the only Scottish abbey to still retain some of its original floor tiles.
- There are Minton floor tiles and stained glass probably by Forrest and Bromley who made the glass for Leighton church.
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- At the first floor level there is another doorway which was installed at a later date.
- The first floor level is clad in brick, which changes to shingles on the upper portions of the side facades.
- A more impressive door was created at the existing first floor level, a pediment above being inscribed with W.H.
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- It has a flat roof 11 cubits and 5 digits or above the floor.
- The upper segment is above the floor of the surrounding valley.
- Usually the prolonged notes are the fourth or fifth above the floor note.
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- The building's total floor area is .
- It have a total floor area of in which are used for commercial purposes.
- The building has four floors, with 16,000 square meters of total floor area.
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- An Arab family built a house over the mosaic floor and charged admission to visit it.
- The mosaic floor of the tower bay was designed by John Howson (Dean, 1867–1885) and executed by Burke and Co.
- The mosaic floor incorporates Jewish symbols such as the Ark of the Covenant, the Menorah, the Shofar and the Lulav.
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- The third floor was used for storage of baled cotton.
- The main floor was used as a nightclub from 1999 to 2011.
- The upper story was used as the Priest's Home and the ground floor was used as the sacristy.
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- A second floor was added to the building in 1931.
- In addition, a new floor was added for two penthouses.
- During the 1980s a fourth floor was added to the house.
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- It is a long drop to the forest floor below...
- A blockade of pipes appear and she sees DJ on the floor below.
- The final height of the tower is and is 10 stories tall above ground, plus a basement floor below ground.
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- The second floor contained guardrooms.
- The ground floor contained the cells.
- Each floor contained a wide balcony that could be used to block the sunlight and the rain.
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- The central rotunda was in diameter, with a wooden floor inlaid with a large mariner's compass.
- The Jerusalem YMCA housed the city's first heated swimming pool and first gymnasium with a wooden floor.
- Around the boilers and under the staircase is a brick floor, and an elevated wooden floor around the stills.
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- Also optional were a retractable fabric sunroof, air conditioning, floor mats, and audio entertainment center.
- TRD PRO logo is stamped into the sides of the pickups bed, while TRD logos are on the shift knob, center console and floor mats.
- The rest had been damaged or destroyed by the soldiers, who often used them as floor mats outside in the mud to keep their boots clean.
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- He required assistance off the floor and went directly to the locker room.
- This was a time when tailcoat was still the rule, and Wall was immediately ordered off the floor.
- Greg remembers playing a game where the players must step off the floor as long as possible with Rodrick.
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- The puborectalis muscle is one of the pelvic floor muscles.
- For anismus/ pelvic floor dessynergia: biofeedback exercise.
- Patients with obstructed defecation appear to have impaired pelvic floor function.
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- This allows the sand to spread out across the floor.
- For a long time there was a white line across the floor.
- There are also numerous small craterlets across the floor.
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- All ceilings are lined with flat sheeting with rounded cover strips, and the timber floor boards are almost completely covered in modern linings.
- The waiting area to this building has a ripple iron ceiling with moulded timber cornice and one metal ceiling rose, a chimney breast, and timber floor.
- The building was galvanized, with timber supports and a timber floor, while the showers were "cold" and were supplied by a large rainwater tank on the roof.
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- In addition, a new floor was added for two penthouses.
- The building was gutted, and given a new floor and insulated roof.
- A new floor with modern seating was installed in 1967, along with improvements to the orchestra pit.
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- The crater floor of Puu Ōō slowly subsided.
- Only some blocks of ice, previously floating on the lake, remained behind on the crater floor.
- As a result, the crater floor is now surrounded by a ring of irregular peaks and worn crater valleys.
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- The interior space is from floor to ceiling.
- The dining room boasts a mahogany sideboard that runs from floor to ceiling.
- The room features Cropsey paintings from its floor to ceiling; the light is kept low, allowing the paintings to glow.
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- The police found a scattered trail of blood that led to the seventh floor of Block 12.
- As of June 27, 2010, construction was 37% completed, with the final pour of the concrete roof above the seventh floor.
- Located on the seventh floor of a house on Nagymezo Street, it was meant to be the Hungarian equivalent to the Bauhaus.
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- Two of the ground floor rooms have been converted into chapels.
- The ceiling on the ground floor rooms consisted of three long, adjacent barrel vaults.
- The Cromwell family lived on the first floor with the servants in second floor rooms and garrets.
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- Target opened on the bottom floor of the old store in March 2013.
- The Louisiana History Museum is located downtown on the bottom floor of the former library.
- The bottom floor is faced with the unique, extremely fine latticework that is known as 'Kaga lattice'.
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- A new section was added at ground floor level with another two dormitories above.
- At ground floor level two unfluted ionic columns at each corner support a decorative cornice.
- A substantial arch gives access to the south facing ground floor level, typical of many engine houses.
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- The top floor housed the servants' quarters.
- The third floor housed the Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation.
- The upper floor housed storage as well as hay and fodder for the stabled horses.
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- In 1983 a garbage truck broke through the floor.
- Most of the flow appears to enter through the floor of the last cavern.
- As she screams frantically, a drill bursts through the floor and the credits roll.
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- The third floor consists of a full-height, floored attic.
- The building houses numerous offices, while the ground floor consists of showrooms.
- The first floor consists of the library, drawing room, dining room and kitchen area.