How to pronounce “floor”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
• (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
• (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.
• (construction, architecture) 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.
• (architecture, countable) A storey/story of a building.
• In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
• (by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
• (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
• (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
• (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.[1]
• (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
• (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
• (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
• (finance) A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.
• A dance floor.
• The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
• The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
• The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
• To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
• (informal, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
• (driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
• (informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
• (informal, transitive, usually passive voice) To amaze or greatly surprise.
• (colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
• (mathematics) To set a lower bound.

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