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# floor

«floor» in Mova's school dictionary: **the flat part of a room that you walk on** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (floor, floors); verb (floor, floored — to knock down or to surprise)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A floor is the flat part of a room that you walk on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floor/#m1)

2) A floor is a level of a building, one above another, like the third floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floor/#m2)

3) The ocean floor or forest floor is the ground at the bottom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floor/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a flat surface to cover (area in square units: length × width; tiles and carpet) or a level of a building counted up and down («each floor has» gives a group to multiply); science: the forest floor, the ocean floor; everyday life: sweep the floor; safety: wet floor signs, keep toys off the floor; British «ground floor» is the US «first floor»

### examples

- The floor is 5 metres long and 4 metres wide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floor/#x1)
- The hotel has 12 floors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floor/#x2)
- Each floor has 9 rooms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floor/#x3)
- She tiles a floor of 20 square feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floor/#x4)
- Please pick your clothes up off the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floor/#x5)
- Careful, the floor is wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floor/#x6)
- Leaves cover the forest floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floor/#x7)
- Our classroom is on the second floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floor/#x8)

### note

With length and width it points to area (length × width); with «each floor has» it is a group for multiplying. Trap: going up from floor 3 to floor 7 is 4 floors, not 7. In the UK the floor at street level is the ground floor; in the USA it is the first floor.

### In the corpora

- [Modern elephant houses have deep sand and heated floors, because years on hard concrete hurt elephants' feet and joints.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth/7/)
- [Coral reefs cover less than 1 per cent of the ocean floor but are home to about a quarter of all sea fish species.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/4/)
- [Most of the deep sea floor has never been seen by people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls/14/)
- [Long before there were gardeners, robins followed wild boar rooting through the forest floor for exactly the same reason.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/1/)
- [In autumn many house spiders run across the floor because the males are wandering in search of females.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «floor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.