(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.
(gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
(gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
(mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
(mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
(mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
(nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
(proscribed) Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
A dance floor.
A storey/story of a building.
A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
verb
(colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
(driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
(informal, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
(informal, transitive) To amaze or greatly surprise.
(informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
(mathematics) To set a lower bound.
(transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
flora
flora
noun
A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.
Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.
flore
flori
floro
flory
flory
adj
(heraldry, especially of a cross) Decorated (finished at the ends) with fleurs-de-lis.
flour
flour
noun
(US standards of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.
Obsolete form of flower.
Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
Powder of other material.
verb
(intransitive) To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.
(transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.