floor

Übersetzungen

• Turnboden

Definitionen

1. Nomen

   The surface you walk on inside a building.

   Beispiele

   • The room has a wooden floor.
   • She swept the kitchen floor.
2. Nomen

   The bottom surface of a natural place, such as a forest or the sea.

   Beispiele

   • They put up their tent on the forest floor.
   • Leaves covered the floor of the clearing.
3. Nomen

   The ground.

   Beispiele

   • He fell to the floor and scraped his knee.
   • Rain gathered on the muddy floor outside the barn.
4. Nomen

   The structure that divides a building into levels.

   Beispiele

   • Beams and girders formed each floor of the warehouse.
   • Workers laid the concrete floor before building the walls.
5. Nomen

   The flat part you stand on in a structure such as a bridge.

   Beispiele

   • Workers repaired part of the bridge floor.
   • The floor of the dam needed to be made stronger.
6. Nomen

   One level of a building.

   Beispiele

   • Her office is on the third floor.
   • The elevator stops at every floor.
7. Nomen

   The main area where lawmakers sit and talk in a parliament.

   Beispiele

   • Members took their seats on the floor before the debate.
   • Only elected members may stand on the floor of the chamber.
8. Nomen

   The right to speak at a meeting.

   Beispiele

   • Will the senator give up the floor?
   • The mayor gave the speaker the floor.
   ≈possession
9. Nomen

   The flat bottom part of a ship, inside the hull.

   Beispiele

   • The floor of the ship curved gently up toward the middle.
   • Shipbuilders checked the floor for signs of rot.
10. Nomen

    In mining, the flat rock under a layer of ore.

    Beispiele

    • Geologists mapped the floor under the ore.
    • The floor of the deposit dipped sharply to the east.