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floor

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Related topics: House, Buildings, Economics
floor1 /flɔː $ flɔːr/ ●●● S1 W1 noun [countableC] → flaw
1  in a building 在建築物中DHHTTB the flat surface that you stand on inside a building 地板，地面
a polished wooden floor
上過蠟的木地板
a puddle of water on the kitchen floor
廚房地面上的一攤水
a warehouse that has 410,000 square feet of floor space
樓面面積爲41萬平方英尺的倉庫
2. in a car 汽車裏 British EnglishBrETTC the part of a car that forms its inside floor 〔車廂的〕底板 SYN American English floorboard
3  level in building 建築物的樓層TBB one of the levels in a building 〔樓房的〕層
a ground floor flat
底層公寓房
on the top/first/tenth etc floor
Our office is on the top floor.
我們的辦公室在頂層。
floor of
We are located on the seventh floor of the building.
我們在大樓的第七層。
4  ocean/forest/cave floor etc 海底/森林地面/洞穴底等BOTTOM the ground at the bottom of the ocean, the forest etc 〔海洋等的〕底；〔森林等的〕地面
creatures that live on the ocean floor
生活在海底的生物
5  for dancing 跳舞用APDTBB an area in a room where people can dance 舞池
There were two or three couples already on the dance floor.
舞池裏已經有兩三對人了。
take (to) the floor (=begin dancing) 開始跳舞
Everyone took to the floor for the last waltz.
所有人都跳起了最後一支華爾茲。
6  where people work 工作場所TBBAREA a large area in a building where a lot of people do their jobs 〔工作場所的〕場地
He wasn’t keen on the idea of working on the shop floor (=the part of a factory where people make things using machines).
他對去工廠車間幹活不感興趣。
the busy trading floor (=area where stocks and shares are bought and sold)
忙碌的證券交易所大廳
7  limit 限度PELIMIT an officially agreed limit below which something cannot go 最低額，底限 → ceiling
Manufacturers have tried to put a floor under the price of their products.
廠商試圖給自己的産品定一個底價。
8  the floor 
a) GROUP OF PEOPLEMEETthe people attending a public meeting 全體與會者
Are there any questions from the floor?
底下有人要提問嗎？
b) TBBPGPthe part of a parliament, public meeting place etc where people sit 〔議會的〕議員席；〔公開會議的〕座位區
The delegates crowded the floor of the House.
代表們擠滿了議院的議員席。
Examples from the Corpus
the floor• the floor of the Mediterranean• The delegates crowded the floor of the House.• Are there any questions from the floor?• They're still attempting to recover the plane's wreckage from the ocean floor.• The boys found some bones on the floor of the cave.
9  take the floor TALK/MAKE A SPEECHto begin speaking at an important public meeting 〔在重要的公開會議上〕發言
The chairman then took the floor.
接着主席發言。
Examples from the Corpus
take the floor• All delegates have a voice at the Conference and can take the floor on any issue raised.• The bride and groom took the floor for the first dance.• An additional reduction to the intervention rate has taken the floor rate to 4. 45 percent.• Norman, who had sacked the rest of the team, took the floor.
10  have the floor TALK/MAKE A SPEECHto be speaking or have the right to speak at an important public meeting 發言；有發言權
He stepped aside to allow other speakers to have the floor.
他站到一旁，讓其他演講者發言。
Examples from the Corpus
have the floor• The Senator from Wyoming has the floor.
11  go through the floor BFCHEAPif a price, amount etc goes through the floor, it becomes very low 〔價格、數量等〕降到很低的水平 OPP go through the roof
Share prices have gone through the floor.
股價已經探底。
Examples from the Corpus
go through the floor• In the past few years, stock prices have gone through the floor.• Last year, sales went through the floor.
n COLLOCATIONS
verbs
clean the floor
Next he had to clean the floor.
wash/mop the floor
The floor needs mopping.
sweep the floor
He grabbed a broom and began sweeping the floor.
wax/polish the floor
I washed and waxed the kitchen floor.
sit/lie/sleep on the floor
Officers found her lying face down on the floor.
fall/drop/sink to the floor
He let his cigarette fall to the floor.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + floor
the bathroom/kitchen/bedroom etc floor
I’ve still got to clean the bathroom floor.
a wooden floor
The hut had a muddy wooden floor.
a marble floor
He strode across the marble floor.
a tiled floor
There were a couple of oriental rugs on the tiled floor.
a carpeted floor
Barbara was sitting on the carpeted floor.
a bare floor (=not covered by anything)
Father Murphy led me to a tiny room with a bare floor and a simple bed.
floor + NOUN
floor tiles (=flat square pieces of clay or other material, used to cover floors)
When you buy floor tiles, always get a few extra.
floor polish
The room smelt of floor polish.
a floor covering (=a material, such as carpet, that covers a floor)
A carpet fitter can fit floor coverings quickly and inexpensively.
floor space (=a measure of how big a room or building is, based on the size of the floor)
The shop has 33,000 square feet of floor space.
 THESAURUS
floor one of the levels in a building 〔樓房的〕層
She lives in an apartment on the eighteenth floor.
她住在18樓的一間公寓。
storey British EnglishBrE, story American EnglishAmE used when saying how many levels a building has 樓層〔用於指建築總共的樓層數〕
a five-storey car park
一座五層的停車場
The school is a single storey building.
那所學校是座平房。
the ground floor (also the first floor American EnglishAmE) the floor of a building that is at ground level 底層,一樓
There is a shop on the ground floor.
底樓有家商店。
nThe emergency room is on the first floor.
the first floor British EnglishBrE, the second floor American EnglishAmE the floor of a building above the one at ground level 底層,一樓
nShe lives on the first floor.
deck one of the levels on a ship, bus, or plane 甲板；〔公共汽車或飛機的〕層
The Horizon Lounge is on the top deck of the ship.
“地平線廳”位於船的頂層甲板。
Examples from the Corpus
floor• They only dragged her more roughly, so that her knees scraped along the rough cement floor.• Ray and Lisa were the first ones on the dance floor.• Cody spilled his milk on the kitchen floor.• Each speaker requires slightly more than a square foot of floor space and weighs 55 pounds.• The blaze destroyed most of the second floor of the three-story structure, which never reopened.• I hadn't even looked at the floor in case I got nostalgic for my own personal locks now lost to me for ever.• Let's just shove everything back into the cupboards, clean the floor and go.• Sun beat through the windows of the flat and made patterns on the floor.• She turned her face to the floor and remained praying in that position for three days and nights.• The prettiest bedroom has oak beams and original wide floor boards.
floor space• As large a group as can fit has gathered in the available floor space to dance.• Newsagents across the country had cleared extra floor space for the 60,000 additional copies of the paper.• How did mall stores battle back, saddled with higher rents, less floor space and lower volume than their competitors?• An internal ramp of the maximum permitted gradient would take up too much floor space in the small shop.• Before the war there had been 85 million square feet of floor space; in 1947 it was 59 million.• Each speaker requires slightly more than a square foot of floor space and weighs 55 pounds.• There was only I m of floor space in front of the ascent engine cover.• By joining with Strawberries, Bloomberg said he gets four times the floor space for roughly the same occupancy costs.
on the top/first/tenth etc floor• She caught a glimpse of his paleness at the window of the bathroom on the first floor.• He came up with them to Four on the first floor, Tom's room.• The maids' bathroom and water closet is on the top floor by the linen room.• We lived on the first floor of a two-family house across the street from Public School Number 8.• The Bando Hotel was the tallest building in Seoul, and its Skylounge on the tenth floor was the place to go.• Take the apartment, up on the top floor of a smelly tenement on Prospect Avenue.• The party residence was on the top floor of a private house on Tinton.
take (to) the floor• When adults take to the floor it tends to be a different story.• All delegates have a voice at the Conference and can take the floor on any issue raised.• Standards re-asserted themselves when press officer Daphne Davies took to the floor, wheeling about the boards in a beautiful solo waltz.• An additional reduction to the intervention rate has taken the floor rate to 4. 45 percent.• Norman, who had sacked the rest of the team, took the floor.• Or be able to take to the floor for the last waltz?
shop floor• The manager's office is above the shop floor.• Working Conditions Most industrial production managers divide their time between the shop floor and their office.• Of course, we also provide practical project management training from the shop floor up.• While engineering curricula included science and mathematics, they were still rooted in the shop floor.• Data Communications: Collection and manipulation of data on the shop floor with a view to allowing more efficient management of the industry's resources.• The machinist on the shop floor could detect but not correct the error.• The effects of large-scale unemployment and changes in the laws affecting trade unions have sapped militancy on the shop floor.• I believe any young graduate would get an awful lot of value from working with people on the shop floor.• In metalworking, your margins end up on the shop floor with even the slightest employee inattention.
put a floor under• This put a floor under the price that the brokers would obtain on liquidating their long positions.• The French government tried to put a floor under the value of the franc.
Related topics: Other sports
floor2 verb [transitiveT]
1  SURPRISEDto surprise or shock someone so much that they do not know what to say or do 使驚訝得不知所措；難倒
A couple of the questions completely floored me.
有幾個問題把我完全問倒了。
2  DSOHITto hit someone so hard that they fall down 把…打倒在地
He was floored in the first round of the fight.
拳擊賽第一回合他就被擊倒了。
3  American EnglishAmE informalTTCFAST/QUICK to make a car go as fast as possible 踩足〔汽車〕的油門，使全速行駛
I got into the car and floored it.
我上了車，把油門踩到底。
Examples from the Corpus
floor• He was an administrator, not an astronomer, and that question had always floored him.• Just put it in a really low gear and floor it.• We were floored that so many people came.• She floored the Audi and took off.• The champion floored Watson with a single punch.
floored it• The other cars crowded in and Williams floored it.
From Longman Business Dictionary
LBED_13_afloorfloor /flɔːflɔːr/ noun [countableC]
1FINANCE the lowest EXCHANGE RATE a currency is permitted to fall to
Traders were buying Argentine pesos at prices well belowthe currency’s floor against the dollar.
→ compare ceiling
2ECONOMICS a level below which prices, wages etc are not allowed to fall
The agreement might also act as a floor to wages during the recession.
Quarterlyprice floors were established for Japanese commodities.
→ compare CAP
3dealing/trading/exchange floorFINANCE the part of a financial market where shares, COMMODITIES (=oils, metals, farm products) etc are bought and sold. In American English, only trading floor and exchange floor are used, not dealing floor
He eventually took responsibility for running the dealing floor.
Any business done by a member ‘under the rules’ is treated as exchange business, even where this takes place away from the exchange floor.
4the floor American EnglishAmEFINANCE a dealing, trading, or exchange floor
5the floor the place where a public meeting or discussion happens, or the people who attend it
At the meeting, the administration were recommended by the floor to reconsider the deal they had earlier rejected.
6get in on the ground floor British EnglishBrE, get in on the first floor American EnglishAmE if you get in on the ground floor, you get involved in a business activity when it begins
The scope for an entrepreneur to get in on the ground floor and turn petrol stations into shops was obvious to those with an eye for business.
7shop/factory floorMANUFACTURING used to refer to the workers who make the goods in a factory
the union’s influence on the factory floor
He’d moved up from shop floor worker to production manager.
8the shop floorMANUFACTURING the area in a factory where the ordinary workers do their work
The chairwoman started her working life on the shop floor.
Origin floor1
Old English flor

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