Floor
(n.) The bottom or lower part of any room |
Floor
(n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2. |
Floor
(n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel |
Floor
(n.) A story of a building. See Story. |
Floor
(n.) The part of the house assigned to the members. |
Floor
(n.) The right to speak. |
Floor
(n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. |
Floor
(n.) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. |
Floor
(n.) A horizontal, flat ore body. |
Floor
(v. t.) To cover with a floor |
Floor
(v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor |
Floor
(v. t.) To finish or make an end of |
Long-stop
(n.) One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper. |
Stop
(v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing |
Stop
(v. t.) To obstruct |
Stop
(v. t.) To arrest the progress of |
Stop
(v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving |
Stop
(v. t.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part. |
Stop
(v. t.) To point, as a composition |
Stop
(v. t.) To make fast |
Stop
(v. i.) To cease to go on |
Stop
(v. i.) To cease from any motion, or course of action. |
Stop
(v. i.) To spend a short time |
Stop
(n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped |
Stop
(n.) That which stops, impedes, or obstructs |
Stop
(n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought. |
Stop
(n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone |
Stop
(n.) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes |
Stop
(n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far. |
Stop
(n.) A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses |
Stop
(n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. |
Stop
(n.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds. |
Stop
(n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc. |
Stop-gap
(n.) That which closes or fills up an opening or gap |
Stop-over
(a.) Permitting one to stop over |
cabaret
floorshow
floor show | a series of acts at a night club |
| whistle-stop tour | a tour by a candidate as part of a political campaign in which a series of small towns are visited, in Truman crossed the country several times on his whistle-stop tours |
stop stopover
layover | a brief stay in the course of a journey, they made a stopover to visit their friends |
| night-stop | a break in a journey for the night |
| pit stop | a brief stop at a pit during an automobile race to take on fuel or service the car |
| pit stop | a stop during an automobile trip for rest and refreshment |
stop
stoppage | the act of stopping something, the third baseman made some remarkable stops, his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood |
blockage
block closure
occlusion
stop stoppage | an obstruction in a pipe or tube, we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe |
| catch stop | a restraint that checks the motion of something, he used a book as a stop to hold the door open |
| dance floor | a bare floor polished for dancing |
diapason
diapason stop | either of the two main stops on a pipe organ |
diaphragm
stop | a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens, the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically |
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 |
| flue stop | an organ stop with the tone of a flue pipe |
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 |
| organ stop | a graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality |
| parquet parquet floor | a floor made of parquetry |
pull-off
rest area
rest stop
layby
lay-by | designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily |
| reed stop | an organ stop with the tone of a reed instrument |
| shop floor | workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines, the productive work is done on the shop floor |
| stop | (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes, the organist pulled out all the stops |
stop bath
short-stop
short-stop bath | an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer |
stopwatch
stop watch | a timepiece that can be started or stopped for exact timing (as of a race) |
| threshing floor | a floor or ground area for threshing or treading out grain |
| truck stop | a roadside service station (and restaurant) that caters to truck drivers |
whistle stop
flag stop
way station | a small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal |
| 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 |
stop order
stop-loss order | an order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level |
| stop payment | a depositor's order to a bank to refuse payment on a check |
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 |
| stop press | late news that is inserted into the newspaper at the last minute |
period
point
full stop
stop full point | a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations, in England they call a period a stop |
stop consonant
stop
occlusive
plosive consonant
plosive speech sound
plosive | a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it, his stop consonants are too aspirated |
| labial stop | a stop consonant that is produced with the lips |
glottal stop
glottal plosive
glottal catch | a stop consonant articulated by releasing pressure at the glottis, as in the sudden onset of a vowel |
suction stop
click | a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) |
| ground floor | becoming part of a venture at the beginning (regarded as position of advantage), he got in on the ground floor |