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Floored vs Floured - What's the difference?

floored | floured |

As verbs the difference between floored and floured

is that floored is (floor) while floured is (flour).

floored

English

Verb

(head)
  • (floor)
  • Anagrams

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    floor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=19 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.}}
  • 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.
  • (Raymond)
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (right to speak) possession (UK)

    Antonyms

    * ceiling

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or furnish with a floor.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 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, […].}}
  • 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
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    floured

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (flour)

  • flour

    English

    Alternative forms

    * flower (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia flour) (en-noun)
  • Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
  • and certain bleaching agents.
  • Powder of other material.
  • wood flour , produced by sanding wood
    mustard flour
  • that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no murnurs walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flours be planted on my grave.'' — Thomas Hardy, ''The Mayor of Casterbridge .

    Synonyms

    * smeddum, plain flour, wheat flour, white flour

    Derived terms

    * self-raising flour, self-rising flour

    See also

    * bran * farina * meal * smeddum

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
  • Anagrams

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