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floor  (floors plural & 3rd person present) (flooring present participle) (floored past tense & past participle )
1  n-count The floor of a room is the part of it that you walk on. 
Jack's sitting on the floor watching TV...  
2  n-count A floor of a building is all the rooms that are on a particular level.  (=storey) 
It is on the fifth floor of the hospital...  
3  n-count The ocean floor is the ground at the bottom of an ocean. The valley floor is the ground at the bottom of a valley. 
4  n-count The place where official debates and discussions are held, especially between members of parliament, is referred to as  the floor. 
The issues were debated on the floor of the House.  
5  n-sing-coll In a debate or discussion, the floor is the people who are listening to the arguments being put forward but who are not among the main speakers. 
The president is taking questions from the floor.  
6  n-count The floor of a stock exchange is the large open area where trading is done. 
...the dealing floor at Standard Chartered Bank.  
7  n-count The floor in a place such as a club or disco is the area where people dance. 
8  verb If you are floored by something, you are unable to respond to it because you are so surprised by it. 
He was floored by the announcement...  be V-ed 
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 →  floored 
 →  flooring 
 →  dance floor 
 →  first floor 
 →  ground floor 
 →  shop floor 
10 If you take the floor, you start speaking in a debate or discussion. If you are given the floor, you are allowed to do this. 
♦ take the floor  phrase 
Ministers took the floor to denounce the decision to suspend constitutional rule...  
11 If you take to the floor, you start dancing at a dance or disco. 
♦ take to the floor  phrase 
The happy couple and their respective parents took to the floor.  
12 If you say that prices or sales have fallen through the floor, you mean that they have suddenly decreased. 
♦ through the floor  phrase 
Property prices have dropped through the floor...  
13 If you wipe the floor with someone, you defeat them completely in a competition or discussion. 
INFORMAL 
♦ wipe the floor with someone  phrase 
He could wipe the floor with the Prime Minister.  
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 →  factory floor