(n.) The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.
(n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.
(n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.
(n.) A story of a building. See Story.
(n.) The part of the house assigned to the members.
(n.) The right to speak.
(n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
(n.) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
(n.) A horizontal, flat ore body.
(v. t.) To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
(v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent.
(v. t.) To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(2) Exudative inflammatory processes predominate in the ulcer floor.
(3) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
(4) In reconstruction of the orbital floor, homograft lyophilised dura or cialit-stord rib cartilage are suitable, but the best materials are autologous cartilage or silastic or teflon.
(5) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(6) Patients with cancer of floor of the mouth and oral tongue had higher odds ratios for alcohol drinking than subjects with cancers of other sites.
(7) There are men who have been here for 15, 20 years or more who have never even sat in the cars because no one on the floor can afford to buy one.
(8) Radiological examination provides more accurate indications for plastic surgery of the pelvic floor, influences the operative procedures and permits better evaluation of operative results.
(9) Pelvic floor location and mobility did not differ between controls and constipated patients.
(10) It was found that within the dorsal part of the well known pressor area there is a narrow strip, 2.5 mm lateral from the mid line, starting ventral to the inferior colliculus and ending in the medulla close to the floor of the IV ventricle, from which vasodilatation in skeletal muscles is selectively obtained.
(11) It was my first day as a journalist, at the Evening Standard's Londoner's Diary, situated on the floor below.
(12) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
(13) • Gaddafi's many eccentricities, including phobias about flying over water and staying above ground floor level.
(14) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
(15) He points to the seat where his friend was hit; he says only pride prevents him from lying on the floor for the entire journey.
(16) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
(17) "The problem in the community is that the elderly who live on their own on ground floors are frightened to open the windows because of vandalism and burglary," he says.
(18) April 17, 2013 The third floor isn't doing so well either: Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) Capitol police email Senate offices: Police "are responding to a suspicious envelope on the third floor of the Hart Senate Office Building."
(19) But congressional aides said that House speaker John Boehner has not communicated his intentions for a floor vote to Sensenbrenner.
(20) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
Mezzanine
Definition:
(n.) Same as Entresol.
(n.) A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.
Example Sentences:
(1) The studio flat in Kentish Town, north London, has a "mezzanine-style" sleeping area.
(2) From the first mezzanine, the timing is off, the jokes are awkward, the delivery is wooden.
(3) He explains that, as a resident of the first mezzanine, I am not permitted to walk downstairs and potentially bother the A-list.
(4) Photograph: Supplied Chris York, who was sitting in the mezzanine section on 2 July, recounted what happened on his Facebook page, and news of the audience member’s behavior was getting wider attention on Tuesday.
(5) Jeff Bridges's standing ovation reaches all the way to the top mezzanine.
(6) A search of rental websites yielded several examples of rooms where a "mezzanine sleeping area" had been erected - in practice a large shelf, usually little more than a metre from the ceiling, with room for a mattress – making the room large enough to let to a couple.
(7) Steyer’s group hired a mezzanine in Galt House hotel – the same facility rented by Paul on the banks of the Ohio river – to hang banners reading: “Senator Paul, Young Voters Won’t Be Fooled.” Meanwhile, a conservative nonprofit unveiled a of TV ad railing against Paul over his support for nuclear negotiations with Iran.
(8) Kathryn Bigelow's standing ovation covers the entire hall except, for some reason, the top right of the first mezzanine, where I am sitting, where we remain sitting and clap politely.
(9) We crept out of a back door and went to a club where a girl was dancing in a bird cage, and sitting on a mezzanine above us we saw Lionel Jeffries and the producer Robert Lynn dropping sixpences on her head.
(10) Bayswater £802 pcm Bayswater flat, £802 pcm "A charming self-contained double studio with mezzanine sleeping gallery" and a "cute open plan kitchenette, cushy sofa and dining table", says the agent of this studio flat near Bayswater tube station.
(11) Every surface is covered in primary-coloured splodgy paintings, there are giant papier-mache objects leaning against walls and a small spiral staircase leads to a beanbag-covered mezzanine whose function I can only guess to be "nap time".
(12) By opening them up, and creating a new mezzanine level, the gallery has created a spectacular new space that is showered in daylight.
(13) Cadence Performance, Crystal Palace, London Relaunched this January with a new mezzanine floor for its cycling fitness studio, Cadence is an all-in-one venue for people who take their cycling, fitness and gear seriously.
(14) The most conservative total occupational-dose-equivalent rate in the center of the ALS mezzanine, 39 m from the ALS center, was found to be 1.14 X 10(-3) Sv y-1 per 2000-h "occupational" year, and the total environmental-dose-equivalent rate at the ALS boundary, 125 m from the ALS center, was found to be 3.02 X 10(-4) Sv y-1 per 8760-h calendar year.
(15) The Kodak Theatre has a ground floor and, above that, three mezzanines.
(16) I decide that I will persuade the inhabitants of the mezzanines to rise up as one and to storm the stairs, like in Titanic.
(17) A mysterious sleight of hand with the internal layout, using staggered “mezzanines” around a central atrium, means the building can claim to be just one storey tall – despite rising 50 metres into the air.
(18) He lives in a mezzanine apartment full of technology and toys in a 101-year-old warehouse – his studio is an identical one next door – in the endless light-industrial sprawl of downtown Los Angeles, now in the first throes of gentrification.
(19) Will’s so smooth he still listens to Sade and has a mezzanine level in his flat.
(20) But even though this "mezzanine-style sleeping area" seems best suited to a rather narrow rental market of petite Cirque du Soleil performers, lettings agent Alex Marks said it had received 50 to 60 inquiries about the property, due to its sought-after location half a mile from trendy Kentish Town in north London .