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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