<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.</li><li>a continuous, supporting surface extending horizontally throughout a building, having a number of rooms, apartments, or the like, and constituting one level or stage in the structure; story.</li><li>a level, supporting surface in any structure: the elevator floor.</li><li>one of two or more layers of material composing a floor: rough floor; finish floor.</li><li>a platform or prepared level area for a particular use: a threshing floor.</li><li>the bottom of any more or less hollow place: the floor of a tunnel.</li><li>a more or less flat extent of surface: the floor of the ocean.</li><li>the part of a legislative chamber, meeting room, etc., where the members sit, and from which they speak.</li><li>the right of one member to speak from such a place in preference to other members: The senator from Alaska has the floor.</li><li>the area of a floor, as in a factory or retail store, where items are actually made or sold, as opposed to offices, supply areas, etc.: There are only two salesclerks on the floor.</li><li>the main part of a stock or commodity exchange or the like, as distinguished from the galleries, platform, etc.</li><li>the bottom, base, or minimum charged, demanded, or paid: The government avoided establishing a price or wage floor.</li><li>Mining. an underlying stratum, as of ore, usually flat.</li><li>Nautical. the bottom of a hull.</li><li>any of a number of deep, transverse framing members at the bottom of a steel or iron hull, generally interrupted by and joined to any vertical keel or keelsons.</li><li>the lowermost member of a frame in a wooden vessel.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to cover or furnish with a floor.</li><li>to bring down to the floor or ground; knock down: He floored his opponent with one blow.</li><li>to overwhelm; defeat.</li><li>to confound or puzzle; nonplus: I was floored by the problem.</li><li>Also to push (a foot-operated accelerator pedal) all the way down to the floor of a vehicle, for maximum speed or power.</li></ul>