Engels Woord van de dag

floor

vloer

Definities

Engels > Nederlands

floor

1. vloer

2. verdieping, etage

Engels > Engels

floor

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

The room has a wooden floor.

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

3. n. 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.

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

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

Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.

6. n. A storey/story of a building.

For years we lived on the third floor.

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

8. n. 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.

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

10. n. (mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

11. n. (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body.

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

The floor of 4.5 is 4.

13. n. (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.

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

15. n. (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.

16. n. A dance floor.

17. n. The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition

18. v. To cover or furnish with a floor.

floor a house with pine boards

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

20. v. (driving, slang) To accelerate rapidly.

21. v. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

floor an opponent

22. v. To amaze or greatly surprise.

We were floored by his confession.

23. v. (colloquial) To finish or make an end of.

floor a college examination

24. v. (mathematics) To set a lower bound.

Nederlands > Engels

vloer

1. n-m. A floor

2. n-m. (figuratively) Any ground, surface

3. n-m. (figuratively) The bottom, lowest level

4. v. imperative of vloeren

Uitspraak

Voorbeeldzinnen

The restaurant is on the ground floor.
    Het restaurant bevindt zich op de benedenverdieping.
All the children were sitting in a circle on the floor.
    Alle kinderen zaten in een kring op de vloer.
Your glasses fell on the floor.
    Jouw bril is op de vloer gevallen.
She lay down on the floor and started reading.
    Ze lag neer op de grond en begon te lezen.
The men's room is on the second floor.
    De herentoiletten bevinden zich op de tweede verdieping.

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