Meaning

8 senses

  1. (transitive)To cover or furnish with a floor.

    floor a house with pine boards

    belegen, ausstatten

    настила́ть полnastilátʹ pol

  2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.

    niederschlagen, umlegen, umhauen

    вали́ть на полvalítʹ na pol

    knock down with force

  3. (dated, informal)To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.

  4. (slang, transitive)To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.

    our driver floored the pedal

  5. (informal, transitive)To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

    floor an opponent

    niederschmettern, zum Schweigen bringen, die Sprache verschlagen

  6. (informal, transitive)To amaze or greatly surprise.

    We were floored by his confession.

    surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off

  7. (colloquial, transitive)To finish or make an end of.

    floor a college examination

    beenden, stillegen

  8. To set a lower bound.

    floored division

Examples

2111 sentences

  1. I live on the bottom floor.

    Я живу на самому нижньому поверсі. — deniko

    ruЯ живу на самом нижнем этаже. — fjay69

    deIch wohne im Erdgeschoss. — MUIRIEL

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  2. He was sitting on the floor.

    Він сидів на підлозі. — anastasishko

    ruОн сидел на полу. — Hellerick

    deEr saß auf dem Fußboden. — Yorwba

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  3. There's no blood on the floor.

    На підлозі немає крові. — deniko

    ruНа полу нет крови. — odexed

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  4. Tom is lying on the floor.

    Том лежить на підлозі. — deniko

    ruТом лежит на полу. — marafon

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  5. Tom saw blood on the floor.

    Том побачив на підлозі кров. — deniko

    ruТом увидел на полу кровь. — marafon

    deTom sah Blut auf dem Boden. — Djabby

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
cover with a floor:
strike down:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
cover with a floor:
strike down:
silence with a conclusive answer:
colloquial: to finish or make an end of:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English floor, floour, flor, flore, flour, flur, vlor, from Old Engl

Inherited from Middle English floor, floour, flor, flore, flour, flur, vlor, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement; deck; gangplank”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“ground; floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).

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Forms

floors, flooring, floored, floored
Base formfloor · to floor
3rd person singularfloors
Present participleflooring
Past simplefloored
Past participlefloored

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfloor
he, she, itfloors

Past simpleLesson

all personsfloored

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave floored
he, she, ithas floored

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill floor

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms
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Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • on the floor
  • the third floor
  • third floor
  • the kitchen floor
  • kitchen floor
  • mopping the floor
  • sweep the floor
  • waxed the floor
  • the second floor
  • off the floor
  • the fifth floor
  • the floor is

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
floodwaterflooffloorboardflop

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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