Story vs. Floor — What's the Difference?

An account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment

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.

An account of past events in someone's life or in the development of something

The surface of a room on which one stands.

The commercial prospects or circumstances of a particular company

The lower or supporting surface of a structure.

Variant spelling of storey

A story or level of a building.

An account or report regarding the facts of an event or group of events

The occupants of such a story

An anecdote

A level surface or area used for a specified purpose

A lie

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

A usually fictional prose or verse narrative intended to interest or amuse the hearer or reader; a tale.

The surface of a structure on which vehicles travel.

A short story.

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

The plot of a narrative or dramatic work.

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

A news article or broadcast.

The body of assembly members

Something viewed as or providing material for a literary or journalistic treatment

The area of an exchange where securities are traded.

The background information regarding something

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

Romantic legend or tradition

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

A complete horizontal division of a building, constituting the area between two adjacent floors.

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

The set of rooms on the same floor of a building.

A lower limit or base

To decorate with scenes representing historical or legendary events.

To provide with a floor.

(Archaic) To tell as a story.

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

An account of real or fictional events.

To knock down.

A lie, fiction.

To stun; overwhelm

A soap opera.

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

(obsolete) History.

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

A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.

The lower inside surface of a hollow space.

A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.

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

(computing) user story

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

To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.

A storey/story of a building.

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.

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

A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.

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

The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance.

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

A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.

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

To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.

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

A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program;

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

A piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events;

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

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

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

A record or narrative description of past events;

(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 short account of the news;

A dance floor.

A trivial lie;

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;