The difference between Apparatus and Floor

When used as nouns, apparatus means the entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished, whereas floor means the interior bottom or surface of a house or building.

Floor is also verb with the meaning: to cover or furnish with a floor.

check bellow for the other definitions of Apparatus and Floor

  1. Apparatus as a noun:

    The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.

  2. Apparatus as a noun:

    A complex machine or instrument.

  3. Apparatus as a noun:

    An assortment of tools and instruments.

  4. Apparatus as a noun:

    A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.

  5. Apparatus as a noun (firefighting):

    A vehicle used for emergency response.

  6. Apparatus as a noun (gymnastics):

    Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.

  1. Floor as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "The room has a wooden floor."

  2. Floor as a noun:

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

  3. Floor as a noun:

    The lower inside surface of a hollow space.

    Examples:

    "Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor."

    "The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home."

    "The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been."

  4. Floor as a noun:

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

  5. Floor as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten."

  6. Floor as a noun:

    A storey/story of a building.

    Examples:

    "For years we lived on the third floor."

  7. Floor as a noun:

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

  8. Floor as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?"

    "The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor."

  9. Floor as a noun (nautical):

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

  10. Floor as a noun (mining):

    The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

  11. Floor as a noun (mining):

    A horizontal, flat ore body.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Raymond"

  12. Floor as a noun (mathematics):

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

    Examples:

    "The floor of 4.5 is 4."

  13. Floor as a noun (gymnastics):

    An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.

  14. Floor as a noun (gymnastics):

    A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.

  15. Floor as a noun (finance):

    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.

  16. Floor as a noun:

    A dance floor.

  17. Floor as a noun:

    The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition

  1. Floor as a verb:

    To cover or furnish with a floor.

    Examples:

    "'floor a house with pine boards"

  2. Floor as a verb:

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

  3. Floor as a verb (driving, slang):

    To accelerate rapidly.

  4. Floor as a verb:

    To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

    Examples:

    "'floor an opponent"

  5. Floor as a verb:

    To amaze or greatly surprise.

    Examples:

    "We were floored by his confession."

  6. Floor as a verb (colloquial):

    To finish or make an end of.

    Examples:

    "'floor a college examination"

  7. Floor as a verb (mathematics):

    To set a lower bound.

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