floor

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (countable) 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. (UK, colloquial, dialectal) 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. (countable) 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. (broadly) 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. (transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
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.
5. (informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
6. (informal, transitive) To amaze or greatly surprise.
7. (colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
8. To set a lower bound.

Concetti

piano

pavimento

suolo

stendere

madiere

solaio

impiantito

uditorio

attico

emiciclo

pavimentare

pianura

platea

prateria

soffitta

terreno piano

piancito

superficie piana

piano di una abitazione

suolo piano

piantito

base

aula parlamentare

campo

fondo

recinto

terra

udienza

valle

atterrare

Opposto di

sky

sinonimi

storey

story

ground

level

deck

layer

flooring

platform

knock down

bottom

earth

base

stratum

bed

🛏️

auditory

chamber

confound

storey

interest rate floor

story

ball over

take aback

stun

tier

blow out of the water

trading floor

floorboard

coldcock

bewilder

stage

beat

soil

basis

planking

puzzle

lumber

loft

nonplus

landing

perplex

dump

defeat

fundus

shock

⚡

land

sole

plank

come

coating

bemuse

Traduzioni

piso

étage

plancher

suelo

Boden

sol

verdieping

Fußboden

Etage

πάτωμα

Stockwerk

etage

planta

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Pronunciato come (IPA)

/flɔː/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: flor

Ereditato da inglese antico: flōr

Affine scozzese: flure

Affine saterfriesisch: Floor

Affine frisone occidentale: flier

Affine olandese: vloer

Affine tedesco: Flur

Affine svedese: flor

Affine irlandese: urlár

Affine gaelico scozzese: làr

Affine gallese: llawr

Affine latino: plānus

In summary

Inherited 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 flair, fluir (“floor”), Saterland Frisian Floor (“floor”), West Frisian flier (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Flur (“field, floor, entrance hall”), German Low German Floor (“entry hall”), Luxembourgish Flouer (“countryside, farmland”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish flor (“floor of a cow stall”), Irish urlár (“floor”), Scottish Gaelic làr (“floor, ground, earth”), Welsh llawr (“floor, ground”), Latin plānus (“level, flat”).

Frasi

By his third term Nein was serving as majority floor leader of the House .

Al suo terzo mandato Nein stava fungendo da leader a maggioranza della casa.

The paintings are displayed on the mezzanine and second floor wing of the building .