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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: floodway - flora</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="floodway"> floodway, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a natural or artificial pathway by which excess water drains off in floodtime. </DL> <A NAME="floodwood"> floodwood, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> pieces of wood brought down by a flood. </DL> <A NAME="flooey"> flooey, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) out of order; askew. Ex. Our combustion control just went flooey (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="floor"> floor, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. the part of a room to walk or stand on; inside bottom covering of a room. Ex. The floor of this room is made of wood. <DD> 2. a flat surface at the bottom. Ex. They dropped their net to the floor of the ocean. <DD> 3a. a story of a building. Ex. Five families live on the fifth floor. <DD> b. the level supporting surface in other structures. Ex. the floor of a bridge or elevator. <DD> 4. any large level surface. Ex. a forest floor of pine needles and cones. (Figurative.) For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor (Milton). <DD> 5. the part of a room or hall where members of a lawmaking body, convention, or the like, sit, and from which they speak. <DD> 6. (Figurative.) the right to speak in a lawmaking body, convention, or the like. Ex. "You may have the floor," said the chairman. <DD> 7. the main part of an exchange, where buying and selling of stocks, bonds, or commodities, is done. <DD> 8. (Informal.) the lowest level (of prices or amounts). <DD> 9. (Mining.) an underlying stratum on which a seam of coal, or other mineral, lies. <DD> 10. (Nautical.) the part of the bottom of a ship that is almost level on each side of the keelson. <DD>v.t. 1. to put a floor in or on. Ex. The carpenter will floor this room with oak. <DD> 2. to knock down; shoot-down. Ex. He floored the boy with one blow. <DD> 3. (Informal, Figurative.) to beat or defeat. <DD> 4. (Informal, Figurative.) to confuse or puzzle completely. Ex. The last question on the examination was a problem that completely floored us. (SYN) nonplus, confound. <DD> 5. to press against the floorboard. Ex. To start the car, turn on the ignition, and floor the accelerator. <DD> 6. to place upon a floor; base. expr. cross the floor, to change political parties. Ex. Churchill crossed the floor of the House and became a Liberal (Atlantic). expr. wipe the floor with, to inflict a crushing defeat on. Ex. The Gaullists had won a resounding victory, wiping the floor with all their opponents (London Times). adj. floorless. </DL> <A NAME="floorage"> floorage, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the amount of floor, usually measured in square feet, available in a building or part of a building; floor space. <DD> 2. =flooring (def. 2). </DL> <A NAME="floorboard"> floorboard, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. one of the boards of a wooden floor. <DD> 2. Usually, floorboards. the floor of an automobile, especially of the driver's compartment. Ex. Then the green flag fell and 33 big feet pushed 33 throttles to the floorboards (Time). <DD>v.t. (Informal.) to push (the accelerator) down to the floorboard of an automobile. </DL> <A NAME="floorbroker"> floor broker,<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a stock exchange who executes orders for other members. He does not deal directly with the public. </DL> <A NAME="floorcloth"> floorcloth, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a cloth or other material for covering a floor, such as linoleum. <DD> 2. a cloth for washing or wiping floors. </DL> <A NAME="floorer"> floorer, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who lays floors. <DD> 2. a person or thing that strikes someone or something to the floor. <DD> 3. (Informal, Figurative.) something that confuses, puzzles, or embarrasses one, as a decisive retort or a hard question. </DL> <A NAME="floorgirl"> floor girl,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a girl or woman who does odd jobs in a store, workshop, etc. </DL> <A NAME="flooring"> flooring, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a floor. <DD> 2. floors. <DD> 3. material for making or covering floors, such as wood, linoleum, or tile. </DL> <A NAME="floorlamp"> floor lamp,<DL COMPACT><DD> a tall lamp that stands on the floor. </DL> <A NAME="floorleader"> floor leader,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) the member of a lawmaking body chosen to direct the members who belong to his political party. Ex. The floor leader has the responsibility of managing legislation on the floor of the Senate. </DL> <A NAME="floorlength"> floor-length, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> reaching down to the floor. Ex. floor-length draperies. </DL> <A NAME="floorman"> floor man,<DL COMPACT><DD> a representative of a brokerage house who operates on an exchange floor. </DL> <A NAME="floormanage"> floor-manage, transitive verb, -aged, -aging.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) to direct as a floor manager or floor leader. Ex. Within two years he was floor-managing major New Deal legislation (Harper's). </DL> <A NAME="floormanager"> floor manager,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the manager of a particular floor in a hotel or department store. Ex. [The] key would not open the door, so the porter got a passkey from the floor manager (Time). <DD> 2. (U.S.) <DD> a. the campaign manager for a political candidate at a nominating convention. <DD> b. =floor leader. </DL> <A NAME="floorplan"> floor plan,<DL COMPACT><DD> a diagram, drawn to scale, of a horizontal section of a room, or rooms, on the same level, showing the thickness of walls, the positions of openings, as doorways, and, often, other features. </DL> <A NAME="floorshow"> floor show,<DL COMPACT><DD> an entertainment consisting of music, singing, dancing, or comedy acts, presented at a night club, hotel, or club. </DL> <A NAME="floorspace"> floor space,<DL COMPACT><DD> the horizontal surface area of a room, floor, or building. Ex. It will be a one-story structure with 12,000 square feet of floor space (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="floorthrough"> floor-through, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) an apartment that takes up an entire floor. </DL> <A NAME="floortrader"> floor trader,<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a stock exchange who usually buys and sells for his own account only. </DL> <A NAME="floorwalker"> floorwalker, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person employed in a large store to direct the work of salesclerks and give assistance to customers. </DL> <A NAME="floorward"> floorward, adverb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>adv. toward the floor. Ex. The glass spun floorward, hit, and splintered. <DD>adj. directed toward the floor. Ex. a floorward glance of bashfulness and modesty. </DL> <A NAME="floorwards"> floorwards, adverb. =floorward.</DL> <A NAME="floozie"> floozie or floozy, noun, pl. floozies, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) <DD>noun 1. a girl or woman of loose morals. Ex. To his current floozie he is an elderly bore with a useful wallet (Punch). <DD> 2. a girl or woman of not much intelligence or taste. <DD>adj. of or characteristic of a floozie. Ex. with a mincing, floozy strut (Time). </DL> <A NAME="flop"> flop, verb, flopped, flopping, noun, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. 1. to move loosely or heavily; flap around clumsily. Ex. The fish flopped helplessly on the deck. (SYN) flounder, wriggle. <DD> 2. to fall or move heavily or clumsily; plump down suddenly; come down with a flop. Ex. The tired boy flopped down into a chair. <DD> 3. (Figurative.) to change or turn suddenly. Ex. He flopped over to the other point of view. <DD> 4. (Informal.) to fail. Ex. His first business venture flopped completely. <DD> 5. (Slang.) to sleep. Ex. The west end has ... stucco "motor courts," where a tired family can flop overnight (Harper's). <DD>v.t. 1. to drop or throw with a sudden bump or thud. <DD> 2. to flap (wings) heavily and clumsily. <DD> 3. to strike with a sudden blow. <DD> 4. to reverse (a picture or image). <DD>noun 1. the action of flopping. Ex. Every stop caused a flop of the wide brim of her hat. <DD> 2. a dull, heavy sound made by flopping. <DD> 3. (Informal.) a failure. Ex. His last book was a flop. <DD> 4. =flophouse. <DD>adv. straight; directly. Ex. He dropped the package flop on the couch. </DL> <A NAME="flophouse"> flophouse, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a cheap, rundown hotel or rooming house for vagrant and homeless persons, usually in a very poor section of a city. </DL> <A NAME="flopover"> flopover, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD> 1. (Informal.) a turning over; turnover. <DD> 2. a television image that appears as a series of frames running down the screen, due to faulty reception. </DL> <A NAME="flopper"> flopper, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one that flops. </DL> <A NAME="floppy"> floppy, adjective, -pier, -piest, noun, pl. -pies.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD>adj. tending to flop; flopping. Ex. a floppy hat. <DD>noun =floppy disk. adv. floppily. noun floppiness. </DL> <A NAME="floppydisk"> floppy disk or disc,<DL COMPACT><DD> a small, flexible, magnetically coated disk in which data is stored in digital form. Ex. A one-ounce floppy disk can contain as much information as 3,000 punch cards (John R. Rice). </DL> <A NAME="flops"> flops, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a unit of speed in the operation of a computer, often used in combination, as in megaflops (one million flops) and gigaflops (one billion flops). </DL> <A NAME="flora"> Flora, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the Roman goddess of flowers. </DL> <A NAME="flora"> flora, noun, pl. floras, florae.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. plants of a particular region or time. Ex. the flora of the West Indies, the flora of the Carboniferous period. <DD> 2. a work that systematically describes such plants. </DL> <A HREF="floral.dic">NEXT</A>