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English term or phrase:
Floors and Stories
English answer:
Floors and Stories
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Ligia Dias Costa
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Floors and Stories
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I am doing a translation with these two terms: floors and stories. Can you explain the difference between those tow terms? Thanks
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Aug 5, 2008 11:16: Ligia Dias Costa changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/31332">Ligia Dias Costa's</a> old entry - "Floors and Stories"" to ""Floors are the bottom sides of the stories""
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Floors are the bottom sides of the stories
A 3 stories building has 3 floors even if the first floor is plain earth. If the building has a basement, the building still has 3 stories but has 4 floors.
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writeaway
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A building is like a pile of blocks. The bottom faces of the blocks are the "floors".
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Deborah Workman
: It is the top side that is the floor./Storeys are on or above ground (the basement isn't a storey), but if your ground floor is just a slab or literally just soil, the slab surface/soil is your "flooring". The floor is unfinished but still a floor.
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What about the floor of the very first story ?
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d_vachliot (X)
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David Moore (X)
: Looks as if someone else has run away with a wrong answer - and worse still, the nonsense has gone into the glossary..
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks. This is very confusing for me because in Portuguese we do not make that distinction! "
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Patricia Rosas
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interior versus exterior and also synonyms
Perhaps this definition will clear it up:
1 : the level base of a room
2 a : the lower inside surface of a hollow structure (as a cave or bodily part) b : a ground surface <the ocean floor>
3 a : a structure dividing a building into stories; also : STORY b : the occupants of such a floor
1 : the level base of a room
2 a : the lower inside surface of a hollow structure (as a cave or bodily part) b : a ground surface <the ocean floor>
3 a : a structure dividing a building into stories; also : STORY b : the occupants of such a floor
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warren
: The cat prowled the ledge on the second story of the house/when the light turned green, the old lady floored it and sped off i.e. she put the gas pedal of her vehicle as far down as it would go, to the floor
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very creative examples :-) Thanks for the agree!!
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Floors and Stories
Floor is any open flat space in the building. It may be in parts of the building "2 stories high" depending how the building is constructed and its use. In an industrial building the work area may be several stories high while only containing one floor.
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Vincentius Mariatmo
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Floor = ground we are stepping, level of the building; storey = level of the building as a whole
It actually depends from the context of the sentence.
"floor"
Used to denote the ground we are stepping at, such as "wooden floor", "raised floor", etc.
Also used to explain the level of the building, such as "1st floor", "2nd floor", etc. Ex : My office is at the third floor of this building.
"storey" (British English) / "story" (US English)
Used to denote the level of the building AS A WHOLE, such as "multi-storey apartment", "3-storey building". Ex : His office is located in a 4-storey building.
Hope this explanation helps you ^^
CMIIW
"floor"
Used to denote the ground we are stepping at, such as "wooden floor", "raised floor", etc.
Also used to explain the level of the building, such as "1st floor", "2nd floor", etc. Ex : My office is at the third floor of this building.
"storey" (British English) / "story" (US English)
Used to denote the level of the building AS A WHOLE, such as "multi-storey apartment", "3-storey building". Ex : His office is located in a 4-storey building.
Hope this explanation helps you ^^
CMIIW
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Demi Ebrite
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Thank you Demi ^^
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David Moore (X)
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Thank you David ^^
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conejo
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Thank you conejo :D
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Phong Le
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Thank you phongicehcmc -> this is really hard to type :D
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Deborah Workman
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Thank you Deborah :D
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either is fine
I think it may depend on where you live, but the two words are often synonyms. In the UK it is common to refer to the number of floors in a building, but "stories" is also used. I am not sure what is the more common usage in other countries.
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d_vachliot (X)
: I don't really think there's that big a difference between the two.
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David Moore (X)
: UK: "Storeys"
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