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Meaning of floor board

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

floor

Pronunciation:/flɔː//flɔɹ/

noun

Definitions

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

    Example: The room has a wooden floor.

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

  3. The lower inside surface of a hollow space.

    Example: Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.

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

verb

Definitions

  1. To cover or furnish with a floor.

    Example: floor a house with pine boards

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

  3. (driving) To accelerate rapidly.

    Example: As soon as our driver saw an insurgent in a car holding a detonation device, he floored the pedal and was 2,000 feet away when that car bomb exploded. We escaped certain death in the nick of time!

  4. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

    Example: Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge