Hold the floor

Definition

floor 1 /flↄ:(r) / n ၁။ [C usu sing ] ၾကမ္းျပင္။ There weren’t enough chairs so I had to sit on the floor. ❍ The bare concrete floor was cold on my feet. ❍ 5000 square metres of floor space. ၂။ [C usu sing ] ၾကမ္းျပင္။ the ocean / forest / valley / cave floor. ❍ EARTH ၃။ [C] အထပ္။ Her office is on the second floor. ၄။ the floor [sing] (က) လႊတ္ေတာ္စည္းေဝးခန္းမ။ speak from the floor. (ခ) (အစည္းအေဝး၊ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲစသည္တြင္) ေျပာခြင့္။ The floor is yours–present your proposal. ၅။ [C usu sing ] (အေဆာက္အအံု တစ္ခုအတြင္း) ကိစၥ တစ္ရပ္ရပ္အတြက္ သီးသန္႔ေနရာ။ the dance floor (ie the part of the floor of a club, etc where people dance) ❍ the factory floor (ie the part of a factory where goods are produced, in contrast with the offices of those who manage it) ❍ the floor of the Stock Exchange (ie where the trading takes place). ၆။ [C] ၾကမ္းခင္းေဈး။ Prices have gone through the floor (ie fallen to a very low level). Compare CEILING ၃ ❏ flooring n [U] ၾကမ္းအခင္း။ vinyl flooring. ❏ floor show n ကလပ္၊ အရက္ဆိုင္စသည္တို႔တြင္ တင္ျပ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖသည့္ အဆိုအက အစီအစဥ္မ်ား။ ❏ hold the floor [ IDM ] (ေဟာေျပာပြဲတြင္) ခုနစ္စဥ္ အမွ်င္တန္း ေျပာသည္။ She held the floor for over an hour. ❏ take the floor [ IDM ] ကခြင္တြင္ စ ကသည္။ She took the floor with her husband. floor 2 /flↄ:(r) / v ၁။ ( infml ) လက္မိႈင္ခ်သည္။ Tom was completely floored by two of the questions in the exam. ၂။ အလဲထိုးသည္။ He floored his opponent with a fine punch in the first round. ၃။ ၾကမ္းခင္းသည္။ The room is floored with pine.

Examples

1. The house has polished wooden floors.
2. We were sitting on the floor watching TV.
3. He invited me onto the dance floor.
4. [take (to) the floor] : They were the first couple to take the floor.
5. [hit the floor] : Harry hit the floor as soon as the band started playing.
6. The toilets are on the floor below.
7. A first-floor flat
8. [on the ground/first/second/top floor] : The toy department is on the second floor.
9. [floor of] : The floor of the cave was slippery.
10. [forest/ocean/valley floor] : A map of the ocean floor
11. There were angry exchanges on the floor of the House of Commons.
12. [take the floor] : The chairman took the floor.
13. [have the floor] : Excuse me
14. Mr Gregory
15. but Ms Barnes has the floor.
16. The speaker will now take questions from the floor.
17. The floor of the New York Stock Exchange
18. A floor was established below which workers’ wages would not fall.