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Flor vs. Floor — What's the Difference?

Flor vs. Floor — What's the Difference?

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Flor

Flor (Spanish and Portuguese for flower) in winemaking, is a film of yeast on the surface of wine, important in the manufacture of some styles of sherry. The flor is formed naturally under certain winemaking conditions, from indigenous yeasts found in the region of Andalucía in southern Spain.

Floor

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.

Flor

A film of yeast that develops on the surface of some wines during fermentation, induced deliberately during the production of sherry.

Floor

The surface of a room on which one stands.

Floor

The lower or supporting surface of a structure.
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Floor

A story or level of a building.

Floor

The occupants of such a story
The entire floor complained about the noise.

Floor

A level surface or area used for a specified purpose
A dance floor.
A threshing floor.

Floor

(Basketball) The court viewed as the playing area for taking free throws, in contrast to the foul line
The forwards made only six shots from the floor.

Floor

The surface of a structure on which vehicles travel.

Floor

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

Floor

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

Floor

The body of assembly members
A motion from the floor.

Floor

The area of an exchange where securities are traded.

Floor

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

Floor

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

Floor

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

Floor

A lower limit or base
A pricing floor.
A bidding floor.

Floor

To provide with a floor.

Floor

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

Floor

To knock down.

Floor

To stun; overwhelm
The very idea floored me.

Floor

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

Floor

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

Floor

The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home.
The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been.

Floor

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

Floor

The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.

Floor

A storey/story of a building.
For years we lived on the third floor.

Floor

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

Floor

Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?
The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.

Floor

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

Floor

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

Floor

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

Floor

(mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
The floor of 4.5 is 4.

Floor

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

Floor

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

Floor

(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.

Floor

A dance floor.

Floor

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

Floor

(transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
Floor a house with pine boards

Floor

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

Floor

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

Floor

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

Floor

To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
Floor an opponent

Floor

To amaze or greatly surprise.
We were floored by his confession.

Floor

To finish or make an end of.
Floor a college examination

Floor

(mathematics) To set a lower bound.
Floored division

Floor

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

Floor

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

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

Floor

A story of a building. See Story.

Floor

The part of the house assigned to the members.

Floor

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

Floor

The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

Floor

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

Floor

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.
Floored or crushed by him.

Floor

To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination.
I've floored my little-go work.

Floor

The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway);
They needed rugs to cover the bare floors

Floor

Structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building;
What level is the office on?

Floor

A lower limit;
The government established a wage floor

Floor

The ground on which people and animals move about;
The fire spared the forest floor

Floor

The bottom surface of any a cave or lake etc.

Floor

The occupants of a floor;
The whole floor complained about the lack of heat

Floor

The parliamentary right to address an assembly;
The chairman granted him the floor

Floor

The legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business;
There was a motion from the floor

Floor

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

Floor

Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off;
I was floored when I heard that I was promoted

Floor

Knock down with force;
He decked his opponent

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