Meaning

• The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.

  "The room has a wooden floor."

• Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).

• The lower inside surface of a hollow space.

  "Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor."

• A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.

• The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.

  "Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten."

• A storey/story of a building.

  "For years we lived on the third floor."

• In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.

• Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.

  "The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor."

• That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

• The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

• A horizontal, flat ore body.

• The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.

  "The floor of 4.5 is 4."

• An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.

• A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.

• A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.

• A dance floor.

• The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition

Meaning

• To cover or furnish with a floor.

  "floor a house with pine boards"

• To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.

• (driving) To accelerate rapidly.

  "As soon as our driver saw an insurgent in a car holding a detonation device, he floored the pedal and was 2,000 feet away when that car bomb exploded. We escaped certain death in the nick of time!"

• To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

  "Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge"

• To amaze or greatly surprise.

  "We were floored by his confession."

• To finish or make an end of.

  "I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes"

• To set a lower bound.