Floor \Floor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Floored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flooring}.] 1. To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent.
Floored or crushed by him. --Coleridge.
3. To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination. [Colloq.]
I've floored my little-go work. --T. Hughes.
Floor \Floor\ (fl[=o]r), n. [AS. fl[=o]r; akin to D. vloer, G. flur field, floor, entrance hall, Icel. fl[=o]r floor of a cow stall, cf. Ir. & Gael. lar floor, ground, earth, W. llawr, perh. akin to L. planus level. Cf. {Plain} smooth.] 1. The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.
2. The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.
3. The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.
4. A story of a building. See {Story}.
5. (Legislative Assemblies) (a) The part of the house assigned to the members. (b) The right to speak; as, the gentleman from Iowa has the floor. [U.S.]
Note: Instead of he has the floor, the English say, he is in possession of the house.
6. (Naut.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
7. (Mining) (a) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. (b) A horizontal, flat ore body. --Raymond.
{Floor cloth}, a heavy fabric, painted, varnished, or saturated, with waterproof material, for covering floors; oilcloth.
{Floor cramp}, an implement for tightening the seams of floor boards before nailing them in position.
{Floor light}, a frame with glass panes in a floor.
{Floor plan}. (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.
"It was impossible to imagine doing this three years ago," says Baira, a 20-year-old high-school graduate who aspires to become a floor broker at the new Mongolian Stock Exchange.
So far, his aides have been broadcasting news to ham radio operators on a make-shift short wave transmitter installed in the sixth floor of the Russian Parliament.
Most of the data, though, is generated on the plant floor and the key is to be able to get hold of it quickly and flexibly. For example, all incoming components from suppliers are barcoded, and the information is downloaded into the database.
If the waiver is denied, any member on the floor can raise a point of order to delete the offending section.
Reagan's final words, "God bless America," touched off a tumultuous demonstration on the floor, which erupted in even greater cheering as he was joined on the podium by the first lady.
But in their hotel room, "what looks like a cockroach is scurrying across the floor," Mr. Miller recalls.
"It's better than when they tell you they're looking for a certain music book and all they know is that it's green," said Larry Heidel, floor manager at Carl Fischer, which stocks 610,000 titles and bills itself as the world's largest music store.
But Mrs. Hull refused to promise and tore up the note on the floor.
Michael Andrews, D-Texas, and Robert Mrazek, D-N.Y., now moves to the House floor after passing the committee by a 27-11 vote.
According to O'Meara, Marts said he didn't know anyone in the building when he set fire to packing materials on the first floor.
Step on it: Interdome Inc. of Los Angeles offers a sheepskin pad that sticks to the car floor under the foot pedals, to prevent high heels from getting scuffed.
When the chemists suspended in solution the stiff strings of carbon used in Kevlar, they found them scattered randomly, like bunches of brittle, uncooked spaghetti dropped on the floor.
A rubber hose carries water from the street to a courtyard, where residents squat on a common brick floor in the open to wash their clothes, cooking utensils and themselves.
The descriptions go on as, one by one, she throws her costumes to the floor.
The arrests stem from a police investigation into the suicide of Patrick Vick, a Church of Scientology member in Lyon who jumped out of a 12th floor window in 1988.
It might look at moments like Euro-crash - bodies slamming to the floor; danger the essential in every step - but its emotional force and wild logic, its skilled disdain for hazard, were hugely effective.
Responding to calls for Wilson's resignation, he shouted across the floor to opponents, "You should be worried about the guy who stole the property." Liberal leader John Turner sharply criticized Wilson for not resigning.
Reports said some trains from Soweto to Johannesburg were stoned and passengers had to lie on the floor.
An art exhibit that appears to invite people to step on the American flag reopened on a limited basis today, and a judge later dismissed a lawsuit by veterans demanding that the banner be removed from the floor.
Television reports said workers sawed the Dutch chemical tanker Anna Broere into two pieces and planned to hoist the parts from the floor of the North Sea.
The FBI, HHS employees and Kennedy's staff said the device, a metal canister in a paper bag, was found several offices and about 15 yards away from Kennedy's office on the 24th floor of the John F. Kennedy federal building.
House Speaker Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash., said the Frank case would be considered on the floor Thursday.
The pound and London's stock market rose sharply on the news because joining the mechanism would set a stable floor under the currency.
Volume on the NYSE floor totaled 128.56 million shares, down from 176.96 million in the previous session.
This meant the difference in air pressure between the fire floor and the adjacent floors would be about half the difference recommended for current smoke control schemes.
In a related administrative case, the CFTC alleged that Mr. Mayne and two independent floor brokers at the Board of Trade, Michael Tolar and James Daubert, failed to prepare accurate trading records as required.
If, for example, you start with the more familiar and reassuring sorts of works presented on the second floor, by the time you get to the rather raucously installed top floor you may be put off by the feeling that you have stumbled into chaos.
If, for example, you start with the more familiar and reassuring sorts of works presented on the second floor, by the time you get to the rather raucously installed top floor you may be put off by the feeling that you have stumbled into chaos.
Every six seconds a half-dozen air guns fire into the water, sending a deep "thud" penetrating up to 20 kilometers into the ocean floor and bouncing back to the ship's electronic ears.
Proctor first started shooting at a woman in a first floor apartment, and police believe the gun misfired, allowing the woman time to run into the bathroom.