Difference between Floor and Base

What is the difference between Floor and Base?

Floor as a verb is to cover or furnish with a floor. while Base as a verb is to have as its foundation or starting point.

Floor

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cover or furnish with a floor. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort. To amaze or greatly surprise. To finish or make an end of.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room. The lower inside surface of a hollow space. 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. A storey/story of a building. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery. Hence, the right to speak at a given time in a legislative assembly. That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. A horizontal, flat ore body. The largest integer less than or equal to a given number. An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.

Example sentence: I do believe women have different ways of taking risks, of ruminating a bit more before they jump to conclusions. And I think that as a result, particularly on the, on, you know, on the trading floor, in the financial markets in general, the approach would be different.

Base

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something from which other things extend; a foundation.# A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; (Basis).A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.Important areas in games and sportsThe lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.One of the three places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out.A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.The name of the controlling terminal of a transistor.The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.A number raised to the power of an exponent.The set of sets from which a topology is generated.A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.A cheerleader who stays on the ground.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To have as its foundation or starting point.To be located (at a particular place).

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: lowinferiorof low standing or rankimmoral, cowardlycommonnonprecious used to describe metals which are not precious; base metal

Example sentence: You can't build any kind of organization if you're not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

We hope you now know whether to use Floor or Base in your sentence.

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