Apparatus vs. Floor

Apparatusnoun

The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.

Apparatusnoun

A complex machine or instrument.

Apparatusnoun

An assortment of tools and instruments.

Apparatusnoun

A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.

Apparatusnoun

(firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.

Apparatusnoun

(gymnastics) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.

Apparatusnoun

Things provided as means to some end.

Apparatusnoun

Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.

Apparatusnoun

A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.

Apparatusnoun

equipment designed to serve a specific function

Apparatusnoun

(anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function;

Apparatusnoun

the technical equipment or machinery needed for a particular activity or purpose

Apparatusnoun

the complex structure of a particular organization or system

Apparatusnoun

a collection of notes, variant readings, and other matter accompanying a printed text

Floornoun

The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.

Floornoun

Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).

Floornoun

The lower inside surface of a hollow space.

Floornoun

A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.

Floornoun

The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.

Floornoun

A storey/story of a building.

Floornoun

In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.

Floornoun

Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.

Floornoun

(nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

Floornoun

(mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

Floornoun

(mining) A horizontal, flat ore body.

Floornoun

(mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.

Floornoun

(gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.

Floornoun

(gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.

Floornoun

(finance) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.

Floornoun

A dance floor.

Floornoun

The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition

Floorverb

To cover or furnish with a floor.

Floorverb

To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.

Floorverb

To accelerate rapidly.

Floorverb

To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

Floorverb

To amaze or greatly surprise.

Floorverb

(colloquial) To finish or make an end of.

Floorverb

(mathematics) To set a lower bound.

Floornoun

The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

Floornoun

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.

Floornoun

The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.

Floornoun

A story of a building. See Story.

Floornoun

The part of the house assigned to the members.

Floornoun

That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

Floornoun

The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

Floorverb

To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.

Floorverb

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.

Floorverb

To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination.

Floornoun

the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway);

Floornoun

structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building;

Floornoun

a lower limit;

Floornoun

the ground on which people and animals move about;

Floornoun

the bottom surface of any a cave or lake etc.

Floornoun

the occupants of a floor;

Floornoun

the parliamentary right to address an assembly;

Floornoun

the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business;

Floornoun

a large room in a stock exchange where the trading is done;

Floorverb

surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off;

Floorverb

knock down with force;

Floor

A floor is the bottom surface of a room or vehicle. Floors vary from simple dirt in a cave to many-layered surfaces made with modern technology.