floor : Idioms & Phrases

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dance floor

  • noun a bare floor polished for dancing
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Deck floor

  • (Arch.), a floor which serves also as a roof, as of a belfry or balcony.
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Double floor

  • (Arch.), a floor in which binding joists support flooring joists above and ceiling joists below. See Illust. of Double-framed floor.
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Double-framed floor

  • (Arch.), a double floor having girders into which the binding joists are framed.
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First floor

  • noun the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building
    ground level; first floor.
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  • . (a) The ground floor. U.S. (b) The floor next above the ground floor. Eng.
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floor board

  • noun a board in the floor
    floorboard.
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Floor cloth

  • a heavy fabric, painted, varnished, or saturated, with waterproof material, for covering floors; oilcloth.
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floor cover

  • noun a covering for a floor
    floor cover.
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floor covering

  • noun a covering for a floor
    floor cover.
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Floor cramp

  • an implement for tightening the seams of floor boards before nailing them in position.
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floor joist

  • noun joist that supports a floor
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floor lamp

  • noun a lamp that stands on the floor
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floor leader

  • noun the legislator who organizes his party's strategy
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Floor light

  • a frame with glass panes in a floor.
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Floor plan

  • noun scale drawing of a horizontal section through a building at a given level; contrasts with elevation
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  • . (a) (Shipbuilding) A longitudinal section, showing a ship as divided at the water line. (b) (Arch.) A horizontal section, showing the thickness of the walls and partitions, arrangement of passages, apartments, and openings at the level of any floor of a house.
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floor show

  • noun a series of acts at a night club
    floorshow; cabaret.
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floor wax

  • noun a preparation containing wax and used to polish and preserve the finish of floors
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fly floor

  • noun a narrow raised platform at the side of a stage in a theater; stagehands can work the ropes controlling equipment in the flies
    fly gallery.
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Ground floor

  • noun the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building
    ground level; first floor.
  • noun becoming part of a venture at the beginning (regarded as position of advantage)
    • he got in on the ground floor
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  • the floor of a house most nearly on a level with the ground; called also in America, but not in England, the first floor.
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ground-floor

  • adjective satellite on the floor closest to level with the ground
    • the ground-floor entrance is kept locked
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Malt floor

  • a floor for drying malt.
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mezzanine floor

  • noun intermediate floor just above the ground floor
    mezzanine; entresol.
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Naked flooring

  • (Carp.), the timberwork which supports a floor. Gwilt.
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ocean floor

  • noun the bottom of a sea or ocean
    Davy Jones; ocean bottom; sea bottom; ocean floor; Davy Jones's locker; seabed.
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on a higher floor

  • adverb on a floor above
    upstairs; up the stairs.
    • they lived upstairs
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on a lower floor

  • adverb on a floor below
    below; down the stairs; downstairs.
    • the tenants live downstairs
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parquet floor

  • noun a floor made of parquetry
    parquet.
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price floor

  • noun floor below which prices are not allowed to fall
    • the government used price supports to maintain the price floor
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privilege of the floor

  • noun the right to be admitted onto the floor of a legislative assembly while it is in session
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sea floor

  • noun the bottom of a sea or ocean
    Davy Jones; ocean bottom; sea bottom; ocean floor; Davy Jones's locker; seabed.
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Second story, Story floor

  • in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the first floor, the one beneath being the ground floor.
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shop floor

  • noun workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines
    • the productive work is done on the shop floor
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take the floor

  • verb stand up to dance
  • verb rise in order to make a speech or motion
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Thrashing floor, Threshing-floor, ∨ Threshing floor

  • a floor or area on which grain is beaten out.
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threshing floor

  • noun a floor or ground area for threshing or treading out grain
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trading floor

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

  • noun floor below which wages are not allowed to fall
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