Floor vs. Flour — What's the Difference?

A floor is the bottom surface of a room or vehicle. Floors vary from simple dirt in a cave to many-layered surfaces made with modern technology.

Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts, or seeds. Flours are used to make many different foods.

The surface of a room on which one stands.

A powder obtained by grinding grain, typically wheat, and used to make bread, cakes, and pastry.

The lower or supporting surface of a structure.

Sprinkle (something, especially a work surface or cooking utensil) with a thin layer of flour.

A story or level of a building.

Grind (grain) into flour.

The occupants of such a story

A fine, powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a grain, especially wheat, used chiefly in baking.

A level surface or area used for a specified purpose

Any of various similar finely ground or powdered foodstuffs, as of cassava, chickpeas, or bananas.

(Basketball) The court viewed as the playing area for taking free throws, in contrast to the foul line

A soft, fine powder.

The surface of a structure on which vehicles travel.

To cover or coat with flour.

The part of a legislative chamber or meeting hall where members are seated and from which they speak.

To make into flour.

The right to address an assembly, as granted under parliamentary procedure.

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.

The body of assembly members

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.

The area of an exchange where securities are traded.

Powder of other material.

The part of a retail store in which merchandise is displayed and sales are made.

Obsolete form of flower

The area of a factory where the product is manufactured or assembled.

(transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

The ground or lowermost surface, as of a forest or ocean.

(transitive) To reduce to flour.

A lower limit or base

(intransitive) To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.

To provide with a floor.

The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard.

(Informal) To press (the accelerator of a motor vehicle) to the floor.

To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.

To knock down.

To sprinkle with flour.

To stun; overwhelm

Fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain

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

Cover with flour;

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

Convert grain into flour

The lower inside surface of a hollow space.

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

The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.

A storey/story of a building.

In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.

Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.

(nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

(mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

(mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.

(mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.

(gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise

(gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.

(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.

A dance floor.

The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.

(transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.

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

To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.

To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.

To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

To amaze or greatly surprise.

To finish or make an end of.

(mathematics) To set a lower bound.

The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

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.

The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.

A story of a building. See Story.

The part of the house assigned to the members.

That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.

To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent.

To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination.

The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway);

Structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building;

A lower limit;

The ground on which people and animals move about;

The bottom surface of any a cave or lake etc.

The occupants of a floor;

The parliamentary right to address an assembly;

The legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business;

A large room in a stock exchange where the trading is done;

Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off;

Knock down with force;