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floor  (floors plural & 3rd person present) (flooring present participle) (floored past tense & past participle )
1  n-count The floor of a room is the part of it that you walk on. 
usu the N in sing 
Jack's sitting on the floor watching TV..., We painted the wooden floor with a white stain.  
2  n-count A floor of a building is all the rooms that are on a particular level. 
usu supp N  (=storey) 
It is on the fifth floor of the hospital..., They occupied the first two floors of the tower.  
3  n-count The ocean floor is the ground at the bottom of an ocean. The valley floor is the ground at the bottom of a valley. 
usu sing, with supp, oft n N 
4  n-count The place where official debates and discussions are held, especially between members of parliament, is referred to as  the floor. 
usu the N in sing 
The issues were debated on the floor of the House.  
5  n-sing-coll In a debate or discussion, the floor is the people who are listening to the arguments being put forward but who are not among the main speakers. 
the N 
The president is taking questions from the floor.  
6  n-count The floor of a stock exchange is the large open area where trading is done. 
usu sing, with supp 
...the dealing floor at Standard Chartered Bank.  
7  n-count The floor in a place such as a club or disco is the area where people dance. 
8  verb If you are floored by something, you are unable to respond to it because you are so surprised by it. 
usu passive 
He was floored by the announcement...  be V-ed 
He seemed floored by a string of scandals.  V-ed 
9 
 →  floored 
 →  flooring 
 →  dance floor 
 →  first floor 
 →  ground floor 
 →  shop floor 
10 If you take the floor, you start speaking in a debate or discussion. If you are given the floor, you are allowed to do this. 
♦ take the floor  phrase V inflects 
Ministers took the floor to denounce the decision to suspend constitutional rule..., Only members would be given the floor.  
11 If you take to the floor, you start dancing at a dance or disco. 
♦ take to the floor  phrase V inflects 
The happy couple and their respective parents took to the floor.  
12 If you say that prices or sales have fallen through the floor, you mean that they have suddenly decreased. 
♦ through the floor  phrase PHR after v 
Property prices have dropped through the floor...  
13 If you wipe the floor with someone, you defeat them completely in a competition or discussion. 
INFORMAL 
♦ wipe the floor with someone  phrase V inflects, PHR n 
He could wipe the floor with the Prime Minister.  
14 
 →  factory floor