floor vs orient

floor

verb
  • To finish or make an end of. 

  • To set a lower bound. 

  • To cover or furnish with a floor. 

  • To amaze or greatly surprise. 

  • To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down. 

  • To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate. 

  • To silence by a conclusive answer or retort. 

noun
  • The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition. 

  • A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements. 

  • The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers. 

  • The lower inside surface of a hollow space. 

  • The area of a casino where gambling occurs. 

  • 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. 

  • In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery. 

  • The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room. 

  • The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge. 

  • A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. 

  • The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine. 

  • An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise 

  • A dance floor. 

  • A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories. 

  • The largest integer less than or equal to a given number. 

  • A storey/story of a building. 

  • That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. 

  • Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground). 

  • Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event. 

orient

verb
  • To build or place (something) so as to face eastward. 

  • To familiarize (oneself or someone) with a circumstance or situation. 

  • To set the focus of (something) so as to appeal or relate to a certain group. 

  • To change direction to face a certain way. 

  • To direct towards or point at a particular direction. 

  • To align or place (a person or object) so that his, her, or its east side, north side, etc., is positioned toward the corresponding points of the compass; (specifically, surveying) to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature. 

  • To determine which direction one is facing. 

noun
  • The brilliance or colour of a high-quality pearl. 

  • The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east. 

name
  • Usually preceded by the: alternative letter-case form of Orient (“a region or a part of the world to the east of a certain place; countries of Asia, the East (especially East Asia)”) 

adj
  • Of a pearl or other gem: of great brilliance and value; (by extension) bright, lustrous. 

  • Of, facing, or located in the east; eastern, oriental. 

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