floor

The surface inside a room that you walk or stand on.

• Your bag is on the floor.
• She swept the kitchen floor.
• The children sat on the floor to play.

Common phrases: on the floor, wooden floor, clean the floor

One of the levels in a building.

• My office is on the second floor.
• The lift stops at every floor.
• How many floors does this building have?

Similar words: storey, story

Common phrases: first floor, top floor, ground floor

The bottom surface of a natural place, such as a forest, cave, or sea.

• Leaves covered the forest floor.
• They found shells on the ocean floor.
• Water flowed across the cave floor.

Similar words: bottom, ground

Common phrases: forest floor, ocean floor, cave floor

A flat layer containing valuable minerals, or the rock directly beneath a nearly flat deposit.

• The ore floor extends beneath the valley.
• The miners examined the rock in the floor.
• A hard floor lies beneath the coal seam.

Common phrases: ore floor, floor rock, floor of something

To press the accelerator pedal all the way down so a vehicle goes faster.

• The driver floored the accelerator.
• She floored it to get up the hill.
• He suddenly floored the pedal, and the engine roared.

Common phrases: floor it, floor the accelerator, floor the pedal

To hit someone so hard that they fall to the ground.

• One punch floored him.
• The boxer floored his opponent in the second round.
• A sudden blow to the jaw can floor someone.

Similar words: knock down

Common phrases: floor someone, floor an opponent

To fit a room or building with a surface for walking on.

• They plan to floor the whole house.
• We floored the hallway with oak boards.
• The builder is flooring the bathroom today.

How to use it: floor something with something (They floored the kitchen with ceramic tiles.)

Common phrases: floor a room, floor with something

To give an answer so strong that the other person cannot reply.

• Her sharp reply floored him.
• He floored his opponent with one clear answer.
• That final argument floored everyone who had objected.

Similar words: silence, confound

Common phrases: floor an opponent, floor someone