First vs. Floor

Firstadjective

Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.

Firstadjective

Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.

Firstadverb

Before anything else; firstly.

Firstadverb

For the first time;

Firstnoun

(uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.

Firstnoun

(uncountable) The first gear of an engine.

Firstnoun

(countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.

Firstnoun

first base

Firstnoun

A first-class honours degree.

Firstnoun

A first-edition copy of some publication.

Firstnoun

A fraction of an integer ending in one.

Firstnoun

(obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.

Firstadjective

Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.

Firstadjective

Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, all others.

Firstadjective

Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest; as, Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.

Firstadverb

Before any other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.; - much used in composition with adjectives and participles.

Firstnoun

The upper part of a duet, trio, etc., either vocal or instrumental; - so called because it generally expresses the air, and has a preëminence in the combined effect.

Firstnoun

the first or highest in an ordering or series;

Firstnoun

the first element in a countable series;

Firstnoun

the time at which something is supposed to begin;

Firstnoun

the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first base

Firstnoun

an honours degree of the highest class

Firstnoun

the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving

Firstadjective

preceding all others in time or space or degree;

Firstadjective

indicating the beginning unit in a series

Firstadjective

serving to set in motion;

Firstadjective

serving to begin;

Firstadjective

ranking above all others;

Firstadjective

highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections;

Firstadjective

being the gear producing the lowest drive speed;

Firstadverb

before anything else;

Firstadverb

the initial time;

Firstadverb

before another in time, space, or importance;

Firstadverb

prominently forward;

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.