floor

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
2. The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
3. (colloquial) The ground.
4. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
5. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
6. A storey/story of a building.
7. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
8. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
9. That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
10. A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
11. The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
12. The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
13. An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
14. A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
15. A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.
16. A dance floor.
17. The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
18. The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
19. The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.

Verb

1. To cover or furnish with a floor.
2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
3. (informal) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
4. (slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
5. (informal) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
6. (informal) To amaze or greatly surprise.
7. (colloquial) To finish or make an end of.
8. To set a lower bound.

Conceptos

piso

suelo

planta

fondo

para el suelo

tumbar

derribar

chocar

palabra

tierra

audiencia

cama

revolcar

alto

pavimento

plan

campo

llano

llanura

pampa

piso de una habitación

planice

planicie

plano

sitio plano

superficie

terreno

valle

aturdir

base

mínimo

pista

altura

boardilla

bohardilla

buhardilla

desvan

desván

ático

era

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/flɔː/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English flor, flore, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement, ground, bottom”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“flat surface, floor, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).
Cognate with Scots flure, fluir (“floor”), Saterland Frisian Floor (“floor”), West Frisian flier (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Low German Floor (“entry hall”), German Flur (“field, floor, entrance hall”), Swedish flor (“floor of a cow stall”), Irish urlár (“floor”), Scottish Gaelic làr (“floor, ground, earth”), Welsh llawr (“floor, ground”), Latin plānus (“level, flat”).