cabaret
floorshow
floor show | a series of acts at a night club |
agribusiness
agriculture factory farm | a large-scale farming enterprise |
automobile factory
auto factory
car factory | a factory where automobiles are manufactured |
| dance floor | a bare floor polished for dancing |
factory
mill manufacturing plant
manufactory | a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
| factory ship | a whaling ship equipped to process whale products at sea |
| factory whistle | a whistle at a factory that is sounded to announce times for starting or stopping work |
floor
flooring | the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure), they needed rugs to cover the bare floors, we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent |
floor level storey
story | a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale, what level is the office on? |
| floor trading floor | a large room in a exchange where the trading is done, he is a floor trader |
| floor | the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business, there was a motion from the floor |
floorboard
floor board | a board in the floor |
floor cover
floor covering | a covering for a floor |
| floor joist | joist that supports a floor |
| floor lamp | a lamp that stands on the floor |
| floor plan | scale drawing of a horizontal section through a building at a given level, contrasts with elevation |
fly gallery
fly floor | a narrow raised platform at the side of a stage in a theater, stagehands can work the ropes controlling equipment in the flies |
ground floor
first floor
ground level | the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building |
mezzanine
mezzanine floor
entresol | intermediate floor just above the ground floor |
| parquet parquet floor | a floor made of parquetry |
| shop floor | workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines, the productive work is done on the shop floor |
steel mill
steelworks
steel plant
steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
| threshing floor | a floor or ground area for threshing or treading out grain |
| floor | the parliamentary right to address an assembly, the chairman granted him the floor |
| privilege of the floor | the right to be admitted onto the floor of a legislative assembly while it is in session |
floor
base | a lower limit, the government established a wage floor |
| price floor | floor below which prices are not allowed to fall, the government used price supports to maintain the price floor |
| wage floor | floor below which wages are not allowed to fall |
| ground floor | becoming part of a venture at the beginning (regarded as position of advantage), he got in on the ground floor |
| floor | the occupants of a floor, the whole floor complained about the lack of heat |
think tank
think factory | a company that does research for hire and issues reports on the implications |
| floor | the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water |
| floor | the ground on which people and animals move about, the fire spared the forest floor |
| floor | the lower inside surface of any hollow structure, the floor of the pelvis, the floor of the cave |
ocean floor
sea floor
ocean bottom
seabed
sea bottom
Davy Jones's locker
Davy Jones | the bottom of a sea or ocean |
| floor leader | the legislator who organizes his party's strategy |
mill-hand
factory worker | a workman in a mill or factory |
| factory price | price charged for goods picked up at the factory |
| floor wax | a preparation containing wax and used to polish and preserve the finish of floors |
| take the floor | rise in order to make a speech or motion |
deck
coldcock
dump
knock down
floor | knock down with force, He decked his opponent |
shock floor
ball over
blow out of the water
take aback | surprise greatly, knock someone's socks off, I was floored when I heard that I was promoted |
| take the floor | stand up to dance |
| factory-made | produced in quantity at a factory |
| ground-floor | on the floor closest to level with the ground, the ground-floor entrance is kept locked |
downstairs
down the stairs
on a lower floor
below | on a floor below, the tenants live downstairs |
upstairs
up the stairs
on a higher floor | on a floor above, they lived upstairs |