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Floor can be a verb or a noun.

floor used as a verb:

  1. To cover or furnish with a floor.
    "floor a house with pine boards"
  2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
    "As soon as our driver saw an insurgent in a car holding a detonation device, he floored the pedal and was 2,000 feet away when that car bomb exploded. We escaped certain death in the nick of time!"
  3. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
    "floor an opponent"
  4. To amaze or greatly surprise.
    "We were floored by his confession."
  5. To finish or make an end of.
    "floor a college examination"

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

floor used as a noun:

  1. The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.
    "The room has a wooden floor."
  2. The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
    "Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor."
  3. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
  4. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
    "Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten."
  5. A storey/story of a building.
    "For years we lived on the third floor."
  6. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
  7. Hence, the right to speak at a given time in a legislative assembly.
    "Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?"
  8. That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
  9. The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
  10. A horizontal, flat ore body.
  11. The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
    "The floor of 4.5 is 4."
  12. An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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As detailed above, 'floor' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: floor a house with pine boards
  2. Verb usage: As soon as our driver saw an insurgent in a car holding a detonation device, he floored the pedal and was 2,000 feet away when that car bomb exploded. We escaped certain death in the nick of time!
  3. Verb usage: floor an opponent
  4. Verb usage: Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge
  5. Verb usage: We were floored by his confession.
  6. Verb usage: floor a college examination
  7. Verb usage: I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes
  8. Noun usage: The room has a wooden floor.
  9. Noun usage: Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
  10. Noun usage: The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home.
  11. Noun usage: The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been.
  12. Noun usage: Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
  13. Noun usage: For years we lived on the third floor.
  14. Noun usage: Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?
  15. Noun usage: The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
  16. Noun usage: The floor of 4.5 is 4.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of floor are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of floor, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

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