floor vs stump

floor

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

  • To set a lower bound. 

  • To cover or furnish with a floor. 

  • To amaze or greatly surprise. 

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

  • To silence by a conclusive answer or retort. 

  • To finish or make an end of. 

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. 

stump

verb
  • To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket). 

  • To stop, confuse, or puzzle. 

  • To get a batsman out stumped. 

  • To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge. 

  • To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of. 

  • To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed. 

  • To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes. 

  • To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem. 

  • To campaign. 

noun
  • One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball. 

  • The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb. 

  • A leg. 

  • An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media. 

  • A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house. 

  • The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting. 

  • A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration. 

  • A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key. 

  • A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece. 

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