floor plan

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported. [1913 Webster]

2.The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2. [1913 Webster]

3.The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge. [1913 Webster]

4.A story of a building. See Story. [1913 Webster]

5.(Legislative Assemblies) (a) The part of the house assigned to the members. (b) The right to speak; as, the gentleman from Iowa has the floor. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]

Note: Instead of he has the floor, the English say, he is in possession of the house. [1913 Webster]

6.(Naut.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. [1913 Webster]

7.(Mining) (a) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. (b) A horizontal, flat ore body. --Raymond. [1913 Webster]

Floor cloth, a heavy fabric, painted, varnished, or saturated, with waterproof material, for covering floors; oilcloth.

Floor cramp, an implement for tightening the seams of floor boards before nailing them in position.

Floor light, a frame with glass panes in a floor.

Floor plan. (a) (Shipbuilding) A longitudinal section, showing a ship as divided at the water line. (b) (Arch.) A horizontal section, showing the thickness of the walls and partitions, arrangement of passages, apartments, and openings at the level of any floor of a house. [1913 Webster]

1.A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram. [1913 Webster]

2.A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition. [1913 Webster]

God's plans like lines pure and white unfold.— M. R. Smith.[1913 Webster]

3.A method; a way of procedure; a custom. [1913 Webster]

The simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.— Wordsworth.[1913 Webster]

Body plan, Floor plan, etc. See under Body, Floor, etc. [1913 Webster]

Syn: Scheme; draught; delineation; plot; sketch; project; design; contrivance; device. See Scheme. [1913 Webster]