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floors

/flawr, flohr/US // flɔr, floʊr //UK // (flɔː) //

地板,地面,地台,地板上

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
    • : a continuous, supporting surface extending horizontally throughout a building, having a number of rooms, apartments, or the like, and constituting one level or stage in the structure; story.
    • : a level, supporting surface in any structure: the elevator floor.
    • : one of two or more layers of material composing a floor: rough floor; finish floor.
    • : a platform or prepared level area for a particular use: a threshing floor.
    • : the bottom of any more or less hollow place: the floor of a tunnel.
    • : a more or less flat extent of surface: the floor of the ocean.
    • : the part of a legislative chamber, meeting room, etc., where the members sit, and from which they speak.
    • : the right of one member to speak from such a place in preference to other members: The senator from Alaska has the floor.
    • : the area of a floor, as in a factory or retail store, where items are actually made or sold, as opposed to offices, supply areas, etc.: There are only two salesclerks on the floor.
    • : the main part of a stock or commodity exchange or the like, as distinguished from the galleries, platform, etc.
    • : the bottom, base, or minimum charged, demanded, or paid: The government avoided establishing a price or wage floor.
    • : Mining. an underlying stratum, as of ore, usually flat.
    • : Nautical. the bottom of a hull.any of a number of deep, transverse framing members at the bottom of a steel or iron hull, generally interrupted by and joined to any vertical keel or keelsons.the lowermost member of a frame in a wooden vessel.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cover or furnish with a floor.
    • : to bring down to the floor or ground; knock down: He floored his opponent with one blow.
    • : to overwhelm; defeat.
    • : to confound or puzzle; nonplus: I was floored by the problem.
    • : Also floorboard. to push all the way down to the floor of a vehicle, for maximum speed or power.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbperplex, confound
Forms: floored, flooring

Examples

  • Finally, installing data centers on the ocean floor is, surprisingly, much faster than building them on land.

  • At home, many kids have more freedom to lie on the floor, pace around, move to another room or take breaks as needed.

  • The guy is swatting layups every other time down the floor, it seems.

  • I think we’ve really reset our floor for what monthly success and targets look like.

  • Westbrook’s poor shooting and inability to space the floor can grind Houston’s offense to a halt.

  • It was a Senate floor soap opera over none other than a soap-opera producer.

  • When I saw the fire in the restaurant, I ran down to the floor below, where I was trapped between flames above and below.

  • Twin girls, Greta and Grace, run around the floor in circles, wearing pink playsuits with tiny pink wings attached.

  • Instead, most of the suffering species ate insects on the forest floor.

  • Its beautifully aged wooden exterior houses traditional floor seating and beautiful gardens typical of the area.

  • She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.

  • The inner ends of the burrows were enlarged with a depression in the floor, where the eggs were laid.

  • Her feet felt rooted to the floor in the wonder and doubt of this strange occurrence.

  • Last night I saw Jean Baptiste lying prone upon the floor, and knew that she had beaten him down to it, and he had not resisted.

  • Several able speakers had made long addresses in support of the bill when one Mr. Morrisett, from Monroe, took the floor.