Floor vs Grand - What's the difference?
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The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.
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Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
A storey/story of a building.
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, chapter=19 In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
(label) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
(label) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
(label) A horizontal, flat ore body.
(label) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
(label) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
(label) 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.
To cover or furnish with a floor.
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, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
* As soon as our driver saw an insurgent in a car holding a detonation device, he floored the pedal and was 2,000 feet away when that car bomb exploded. We escaped certain death in the nick of time!
To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
* Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge
To amaze or greatly surprise.
(colloquial) To finish or make an end of.
* I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes
Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal.
Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things).
Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.
Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent -- generally used in composition; as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc.
(Ireland, Northern England) fine; lovely
One thousand dollars (compare ).
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, date = 2003-12-21
, episode = The Hitchhiker
, title = (Cold Case)
, people = (Danny Pino)
, role = Scotty Valens
, season = 1
, number = 10
, passage = I could win ten grand over there, I still ain't paying a cabbie 300 bucks to drive me home.
}}
(British) One thousand pounds sterling.
(musical instruments) A grand piano
As a noun floor
is the bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.As a verb floor
is to cover or furnish with a floor.As a proper noun grand is
a commune in france.floor
English
Noun
(en noun)- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor ; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor , where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
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Synonyms
* (right to speak) possession (UK)Antonyms
* ceilingVerb
(en verb)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
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(Webster 1913)Adjective
(er)- a grand mountain
- a grand army
- a grand mistake
- a grand monarch
- a grand view
- a grand conception
- a grand lodge
- a grand vizier
- a grand piano
