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floorwise en · ADJ

Etymology

From floor + -wise.

Meanings

  1. (India, nonstandard, not-comparable) Based on, or in terms of, the floor.
    • floorwise building plans; floorwise area calculations

floorwise en · ADV

Etymology

From floor + -wise.

Meanings

  1. (nonce-word, not-comparable, poetic) Like a floor.
    • While our feet struck glories / Outward, smooth and fair, / Which we stood on floorwise, / Platformed in mid air. 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Drama of Exile”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 32: