(n.) A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n.
(n.) Material for the construction of a floor or floors.
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.
Underfloor
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The barn where we ate and did classes was more than spacious enough for our group of 10, with underfloor heating and two wood burners making it feel positively tropical in December.
(2) However, the staging in the round at the Cottesloe, with Paule Constable's wonderful underfloor lighting conveying the hero's love of maths and the night sky, seemed so integral to the success of the play.
(3) Heat pumps run at much lower temperatures than a standard boiler, and so they are most suited to well-insulated buildings, ideally those with underfloor heating."
(4) This report describes two female patients, 69 and 79 years old, with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) developing from erythema ab igne (EAI) due to thermal irradiation from a sunken hearth (irori in Japanese) or an underfloor brazier covered with a quilt (kotatsu in Japanese).
(5) : sedentary behaviour, underfloor heating, the use of oral contraceptives or of menopausal hormone replacement therapy.
(6) Every prisoner has his own cell, with a toilet, shower, underfloor heating, and landline telephone (although this could change later this year, if, as planned, the prison is allocated another 400 inmates, at which point some will have to start sharing cells).
(7) There's underfloor heating, a sleek, Scandinavian woodburning stove in the lounge, a telescope in the garden room for spotting dolphins and seals in the waves far below, and a path weaving down to the shore.
(8) The 32 light and spacious bedrooms have underfloor heating, goose-down duvets and Voya Irish organic seaweed toiletries.
(9) There's a discernible hum, the feeling that Oxford Street's underfloor heating has been turned up too high.
(10) Each property has a designer kitchen and multi-zone underfloor heating adjustable from smartphone and tablet devices.
(11) After some debate, they opted for water underfloor heating.
(12) When the liquid travels around the loop it absorbs heat from the ground, then uses it to heat radiators, underfloor heating systems and even hot water.