floor

Noun

• a large room in a exchange where the trading is done
  • he is a floor trader
    

• the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business
  • there was a motion from the floor
    

• the parliamentary right to address an assembly
  • the chairman granted him the floor
    

• the occupants of a floor
  • the whole floor complained about the lack of heat
    

• the lower inside surface of any hollow structure
  • the floor of the pelvis
    
  • the floor of the cave
    

• the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water

• the ground on which people and animals move about
  • the fire spared the forest floor
    

• a lower limit
  • the government established a wage floor
    

• a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
  • what level is the office on?
    

• the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)
  • they needed rugs to cover the bare floors
    
  • we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent
    

Verb

• knock down with force
  • He decked his opponent
    

• surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
  • I was floored when I heard that I was promoted
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  trading floor , base , level , storey , story , flooring , deck , coldcock , dump , knock down , shock , ball over , blow out of the water , take aback