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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++floor1 /flɔː $ flɔːr/ ●●● S1 W1 noun [countable] 1 in a building 在建筑物中DHHTTB the flat surface that you stand on inside a building 地板，地面 a polished wooden floor 上过蜡的木地板 a puddle of water on the kitchen floor 厨房地面上的一摊水 a warehouse that has 410,000 square feet of floor space 楼面面积为41万平方英尺的仓库2. in a car 汽车里 British EnglishTTC the part of a car that forms its inside floor 〔车厢的〕底板 SYN American English floorboard3 level in building 建筑物的楼层TBB one of the levels in a building 〔楼房的〕层 a ground floor flat 底层公寓房on the top/first/tenth etc floor Our office is on the top floor. 我们的办公室在顶层。floor of We are located on the seventh floor of the building. 我们在大楼的第七层。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. 舞池里已经有两三对人了。take (to) the floor (=begin dancing) 开始跳舞 Everyone took to the floor for the last waltz. 所有人都跳起了最后一支华尔兹。6 where people work 工作场所TBBAREA a large area in a building where a lot of people do their jobs 〔工作场所的〕场地 He wasn’t keen on the idea of working on the shop floor (=the part of a factory where people make things using machines). 他对去工厂车间干活不感兴趣。 the busy trading floor (=area where stocks and shares are bought and sold) 忙碌的证券交易所大厅7 limit 限度PELIMIT an officially agreed limit below which something cannot go 最低额，底限 → ceiling Manufacturers have tried to put a floor under the price of their products. 厂商试图给自己的产品定一个底价。8 the floor a) GROUP OF PEOPLEMEETthe people attending a public meeting 全体与会者 Are there any questions from the floor? 底下有人要提问吗？ b) TBBPGPthe part of a parliament, public meeting place etc where people sit 〔议会的〕议员席；〔公开会议的〕座位区 The delegates crowded the floor of the House. 代表们挤满了议院的议员席。9 take the floor TALK/MAKE A SPEECHto begin speaking at an important public meeting 〔在重要的公开会议上〕发言 The chairman then took the floor. 接着主席发言。10 have the floor TALK/MAKE A SPEECHto be speaking or have the right to speak at an important public meeting 发言；有发言权 He stepped aside to allow other speakers to have the floor. 他站到一旁，让其他演讲者发言。11 go through the floor BFCHEAPif a price, amount etc goes through the floor, it becomes very low 〔价格、数量等〕降到很低的水平 OPP go through the roof Share prices have gone through the floor. 股价已经探底。n COLLOCATIONSverbsclean the floorNext he had to clean the floor.wash/mop the floorThe floor needs mopping.sweep the floorHe grabbed a broom and began sweeping the floor.wax/polish the floorI washed and waxed the kitchen floor.sit/lie/sleep on the floorOfficers found her lying face down on the floor.fall/drop/sink to the floorHe let his cigarette fall to the floor.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + floorthe bathroom/kitchen/bedroom etc floorI’ve still got to clean the bathroom floor.a wooden floorThe hut had a muddy wooden floor.a marble floorHe strode across the marble floor.a tiled floorThere were a couple of oriental rugs on the tiled floor.a carpeted floorBarbara 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 + NOUNfloor tiles (=flat square pieces of clay or other material, used to cover floors)When you buy floor tiles, always get a few extra.floor polishThe 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. THESAURUSfloor one of the levels in a building 〔楼房的〕层She lives in an apartment on the eighteenth floor. 她住在18楼的一间公寓。storey British English, story American English used when saying how many levels a building has 楼层〔用于指建筑总共的楼层数〕a five-storey car park 一座五层的停车场The school is a single storey building. 那所学校是座平房。the ground floor (also the first floor American English) the floor of a building that is at ground level 底层,一楼There is a shop on the ground floor. 底楼有家商店。nThe emergency room is on the first floor.the first floor British English, the second floor American English the floor of a building above the one at ground level 底层,一楼nShe lives on the first floor.deck one of the levels on a ship, bus, or plane 甲板；〔公共汽车或飞机的〕层The Horizon Lounge is on the top deck of the ship. “地平线厅”位于船的顶层甲板。
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.floor2 verb [transitive] 1 SURPRISEDto surprise or shock someone so much that they do not know what to say or do 使惊讶得不知所措；难倒 A couple of the questions completely floored me. 有几个问题把我完全问倒了。2 DSOHITto hit someone so hard that they fall down 把…打倒在地3 American English informalTTCFAST/QUICK to make a car go as fast as possible 踩足〔汽车〕的油门，使全速行驶→ See Verb tableExamples 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 DictionaryLBED_13_afloorfloor /flɔːflɔːr/ noun [countable]1FINANCE the lowest EXCHANGE RATE a currency is permitted to fall toTraders were buying Argentine pesos at prices well belowthe currency’s floor against the dollar. → compare ceiling2ECONOMICS a level below which prices, wages etc are not allowed to fallThe agreement might also act as a floor to wages during the recession.Quarterlyprice floors were established for Japanese commodities. → compare CAP3dealing/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 floorHe 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 EnglishFINANCE a dealing, trading, or exchange floor5the floor the place where a public meeting or discussion happens, or the people who attend itAt the meeting, the administration were recommended by the floor to reconsider the deal they had earlier rejected.6get in on the ground floor British English, get in on the first floor American English if you get in on the ground floor, you get involved in a business activity when it beginsThe 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 factorythe union’s influence on the factory floorHe’d moved up from shop floor worker to production manager.8the shop floorMANUFACTURING the area in a factory where the ordinary workers do their workThe chairwoman started her working life on the shop floor.Origin floor1 Old English florfloor1 noun →n COLLOCATIONS1 →THESAURUS1floor2 verbLDOCE OnlineChinese
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floor1 S1 W1 /flɔː $ flɔːr/ 
noun [countable]
a polished wooden floor
a puddle of water on the kitchen floor
a warehouse that has 410,000 square feet of floor space
2. IN A CAR British English the part of a car that forms its inside floor
SYN floorboard American English
3. LEVEL IN BUILDING one of the levels in a building:
a ground floor flat
on the top/first/tenth etc floor
Our office is on the top floor.
floor of
We are located on the seventh floor of the building.
4. OCEAN/FOREST/CAVE FLOOR ETC the ground at the bottom of the ocean, the forest etc:
creatures that live on the ocean floor
5. FOR DANCING an area in a room where people can dance:
There were two or three couples already on the dance floor.
take (to) the floor (=begin dancing)
Everyone took to the floor for the last waltz.
6. WHERE PEOPLE WORK a large area in a building where a lot of people do their jobs:
He wasn’t keen on the idea of working on the shop floor (=the part of a factory where people make things using machines).
the busy trading floor (=area where STOCKS and SHARES are bought and sold)
7. LIMIT an officially agreed limit below which something cannot go ⇨ ceiling:
Manufacturers have tried to put a floor under the price of their products.
8. the floor
a. the people attending a public meeting:
Are there any questions from the floor?
b. the part of a parliament, public meeting place etc where people sit:
The delegates crowded the floor of the House.
9. take the floor to begin speaking at an important public meeting:
The chairman then took the floor.
10. have the floor to be speaking or have the right to speak at an important public meeting:
He stepped aside to allow other speakers to have the floor.
11. go through the floor if a price, amount etc goes through the floor, it becomes very low
OPP go through the roof:
Share prices have gone through the floor.
■ 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.
▪ floor one of the levels in a building: She lives in an apartment on the eighteenth floor.
▪storey British English, story American English used when saying how many levels a building has: a five-storey car park | The school is a single storey building.
▪the ground floor (also the first floor American English) the floor of a building that is at ground level: There is a shop on the ground floor. | The emergency room is on the first floor.
▪the first floor British English, the second floor American English the floor of a building above the one at ground level: She lives on the first floor.
▪deck one of the levels on a ship, bus, or plane: The Horizon Lounge is on the top deck of the ship.
floor2 verb [transitive]
1. to surprise or shock someone so much that they do not know what to say or do:
A couple of the questions completely floored me.
2. to hit someone so hard that they fall down:
He was floored in the first round of the fight.
3. American English informal to make a car go as fast as possible:
I got into the car and floored it.
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noun [countable] Language: Old English
Origin: flor
1. IN A BUILDING the flat surface that you stand on inside a building:Origin: flor
2. IN A CAR British English the part of a car that forms its inside floor
SYN floorboard American English
3. LEVEL IN BUILDING one of the levels in a building:
on the top/first/tenth etc floor
floor of
4. OCEAN/FOREST/CAVE FLOOR ETC the ground at the bottom of the ocean, the forest etc:
5. FOR DANCING an area in a room where people can dance:
take (to) the floor (=begin dancing)
6. WHERE PEOPLE WORK a large area in a building where a lot of people do their jobs:
7. LIMIT an officially agreed limit below which something cannot go ⇨ ceiling:
8. the floor
a. the people attending a public meeting:
b. the part of a parliament, public meeting place etc where people sit:
9. take the floor to begin speaking at an important public meeting:
10. have the floor to be speaking or have the right to speak at an important public meeting:
11. go through the floor if a price, amount etc goes through the floor, it becomes very low
OPP go through the roof:
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verb [transitive]1. to surprise or shock someone so much that they do not know what to say or do:
2. to hit someone so hard that they fall down:
3. American English informal to make a car go as fast as possible:
floor the surface of a room that you walk on 指室内地板、地面 ：◆ She was sitting on the floor watching TV. 她坐在地板上看电视。 ground (often the ground ) the solid surface of the earth that you walk on（常作 the ground）指室外地、地面 ：◆ I found her lying on the ground. 我发现她躺在地上。 ◆ The rocket crashed a few seconds after it left the ground .火箭离开地面几秒钟便坠毁了。 land the surface of the earth that is not sea 指陆地、大地 ：◆ It was good to be back on dry land again.回到陆地上真好。 ◆ They fought both at sea and on land .他们在海上和陆上都打过仗。 earth (often the earth ) the solid surface of the world that is made of rock, soil, sand, etc.（常作 the earth）指大地、陆地、地面 ：◆ You could feel the earth shake as the truck came closer. 卡车开近时可感觉到地面在震动。
ground, land or earth? 用 ground、land 还是 earth？
Ground is the normal word for the solid surface that you walk on when you are not in a building or vehicle. You can useearth if you want to draw attention to the rock, soil etc. that the ground is made of.Land is only used when you want to contrast it with the sea.* ground 常指建筑物或车辆外的地面。如果关注的是构成大地的岩石、土壤等可用 earth。land 只在与海相对照时使用 ：◆ the land beneath our feet ◆ feel the land shake ◆ sight ground/earth ◆ travel by ground/earth
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on/under the floor/ground/earthbare floor/ground/earthto drop/fall to the floor/the ground/(the) earthto reach the floor/the ground/land
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In BrE ground floor , the one above it is thefirst floor and the one below it is thebasement , orlower ground floor in a public building.在英式英语中，地面的楼层叫 ground floor，上面一层叫 first floor，下面一层叫 basement 或在公共建筑中叫 lower ground floor。 In NAmE first floor , the one above it is thesecond floor and the one below it is thebasement . In public buildings the floor at street level can also be called theground floor .在美式英语中，地面的一层通常叫 first floor，上面一层叫 second floor，下面一层叫 basement。在公共建筑中，地面的一层亦可称为 ground floor。
You use storey ( /BrE story ( mainly when you are talking about the number of levels a building has.NAmE * storey（英式英语）／story（美式英语）主要用以指建筑物的楼层数目 ：◆ a five-storey house 一栋五层楼的房屋 ◆ The office building is five storeys high. 办公大楼有五层楼高。 Floor is used mainly to talk about which particular level in the building someone lives on, goes to, etc.* floor 主要指居住或前往等的某楼层 ：◆ His office is on the fifth floor. 他的办公室在五楼。
