have the floor
To have permission or time to speak, especially in a formal situation.
The representative from New Hampshire has the floor.
noun
The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
The room has a wooden floor.
A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
The leaves covering the forest floor provide many hiding-places for small animals.
Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
The ground.
After stepping off the bus, my wallet fell on the floor.
A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
verb
To cover or furnish with a floor.
floor a house with pine boards
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].
To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
Sam floored him perpetually, and beat his face to a jelly, without getting a scratch.
To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
our driver floored the pedal
I don't remember much about the flight from Chicago to Denver. We landed a little after eleven, and I ran through the airport, ran to my car. Floored it most of the way home.
To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
floor an opponent
Floored or crushed by him.