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floor
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Word definitions for floor in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Floor \Floor\ (fl[=o]r), n. [AS. fl[=o]r; akin to D. vloer, G. flur field, floor, entrance hall, Icel. fl[=o]r floor of a cow stall, cf. Ir. & Gael. lar floor, ground, earth, W. llawr, perh. akin to L. planus level. Cf. Plain smooth.] The bottom or lower ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted" [syn: shock , stun , ball over , blow out of the water , take aback ] knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" [syn: deck , coldcock , dump , knock down ...
Usage examples of floor.
She whirled, her right hand raised, but before she could use the controlling ring she lay sprawled on the floor, one side of her face ablaze from the blow of a phantom hand.
The scene I cannot describe--I should faint if I tried it, for there is madness in a room full of classified charnel things, with blood and lesser human debris almost ankle-deep on the slimy floor, and with hideous reptilian abnormalities sprouting, bubbling, and baking over a winking bluish-green spectre of dim flame in a far corner of black shadows.
The abomination of it all, the vengeance of destiny which exacted this sacrilege, filled her with such a feeling of revolt that at the moment when vertigo was about to seize her and the flooring began to flee from beneath her feet, she was lashed by it and kept erect.
She slung her Uzi over her shoulder then abseiled down, landing silently on the floor below.
The cost of abutments and bridge flooring is practically independent of the length of span adopted.
He saw one young Abies girl, then another, seated side by side on the floor, in the shadows between the wooden end-legs of a broad workbench and the far-left wall.
The post was tapered to an acanthus pattern and was the best thing in the house, just about, along with the plank floor in the kitchen.
For instance, if your forward-facing chair is bolted to the floor and your compartment is being accelerated forward, you will feel the force of your seat on your back just as with the car described by Albert.
Similarly, if your compartment is being accelerated upward you will feel the force of the floor on your feet.
The most they can manage is a sort of diagonal slouch: feet on the floor, necks bent up against the bulkhead, Acton cradling her like a living hammock.
Baptiste had Adeem pinned against the floor, straddling him as he wrapped his hands around his neck.
Glutamic acid, without which ammonia accumulates in the brain and kills, dribbled along the floor while they glared, and D-ribose, and D-2-deoxyribose, adenine, guanine, uracil, cytosine, thymine and 5-methyl cytosine without which no thing higher than a trilobite can pass on its shape and meaning to its next generation.
The closet, which adjoins my chamber at La Vallee, has a sliding board in the floor.
The doors to the admin building were locked, and the ground floor windows shuttered or barricaded.
Lord Ado sank to his knees and collapsed on the floor, she switched the two pieces of chain to one hand.