Ward vs Floor - What's the difference?
ward | floor |
(archaic, or, obsolete) A guard; a guardian or watchman.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xi:
Protection, defence.
# (obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden .
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc. ).
#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:
# Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
#* 1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book V:
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
# An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area, or a social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering, approaching and/or even from being able to locate said-protected premises
# (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
# (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
A protected place.
# (archaic) An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
#* 1942 , (Rebecca West), Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate 2006, page 149:
#* 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 78:
# A section or subdivision of a prison.
# An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# (UK) A division of a forest.
# (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
# A room in a hospital where patients reside.
#* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 16, author=Denis Campbell, work=Guardian
, title= A person under guardianship.
# A minor looked after by a guardian.
#* , chapter=22
, title= # (obsolete) An underage orphan.
An object used for guarding.
# The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
#*, II.1:
#* Tomlinson
#* 1893 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), ‘The Resident Patient’, Norton 2005, page 628:
To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
* Spenser
To defend, to protect.
* Shakespeare
* 1603 , John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , II.3:
To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off .
* Daniel
* Addison
* I. Watts
To be vigilant; to keep guard.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
To act on the defensive with a weapon.
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.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, 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.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, 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
As a proper noun ward
is for a guard or watchman.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.ward
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ward, from (etyl) . Cognate with German Wart.Noun
(en noun)- no gate they found, them to withhold, / Nor ward to wait at morne and euening late [...].
Etymology 2
From (etyl) ward, warde, from (etyl) ; English guard is a parallel form which came via Old French.Noun
(en noun)- the best ward of mine honour
- The assieged castle's ward / Their steadfast stands did mightily maintain.
- For want of other ward , / He lifted up his hand, his front to guard.
- Before the dore sat selfe-consuming Care, / Day and night keeping wary watch and ward , / For feare least Force or Fraud should vnaware / Breake in
- So forth the presoners were brought before Arthure, and he commaunded hem into kepyng of the conestabyls warde , surely to be kepte as noble presoners.
- I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward .
- It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.
- Thou knowest my old ward ; here I lay, and thus I bore my point.
- Diocletian.
- With the castle so crowded, the outer ward had been given over to guests to raise their tents and pavilions, leaving only the smaller inner yards for training.
- Throughout the trembling city placed a guard, / Dealing an equal share to every ward .
Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients', passage=Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers' often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
- A man must thorowly sound himselfe, and dive into his heart, and there see by what wards or springs the motions stirre.
- The lock is mademore secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.
- With the help of a wire, however, they forced round the key. Even without the lens you will perceive, by the scratches on this ward , where the pressure was applied.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) warden, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight / To ward the same.
- Tell him it was a hand that warded him / From a thousand dangers.
- they went to seeke their owne death, and rushed amidst the thickest of their enemies, with an intention, rather to strike, than to ward themselves.
- Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.
- The pointed javelin warded off his rage.
- It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.
- They for vs fight, they watch and dewly ward , / And their bright Squadrons round about vs plant [...].
Synonyms
* (to fend off) ward offAnagrams
* drawSee also
* * ----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.}}
- (Raymond)
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, […].}}