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When you do movies on low budgets, you don't want to have a location that requires a very big light right outside the window when you're 10 stories up. You have to find a location where you have a terrace outside, or you can light from a second floor, or you can light through the windows for daylight.
Darius Khondji

Meaning of "second floor" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SECOND FLOOR

second floor play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SECOND FLOOR

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Second floor is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SECOND FLOOR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Storey

A storey or story is any level part of a building that could be used by people. The plurals are storeys and stories, respectively. The terms floor, level, or deck can also be used in this sense; except that one may use "ground floor" and "ground level" for the floor closer to what is considered the ground or street level. The words "storey" and "floor" also generally exclude levels of the building that have no roof, even if they are used by people—such as the terrace on the top roof of many buildings. Houses commonly have only one or two floors. Buildings are often classified as low-rise, mid-rise, and high-rise according to how many levels they contain; but these categories are not well-defined. The tallest skyscraper in the world, Burj Khalifa, has 163 floors. As of 2013, the tallest planned skyscraper, Sky City, is planned to have 202 floors. The height of each storey is based on the ceiling height of the rooms plus the thickness of the floors between each pain. Generally this is around 10 feet or 3 metres total, however it varies widely from just under this figure to well over it.

Definition of second floor in the English dictionary

The definition of second floor in the dictionary is the storey of a building immediately above the first and two floors up from the ground US and Canadian term: third floor. Other definition of second floor is the floor or storey of a building immediately above the ground floor British equivalent: first floor.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SECOND FLOOR

second best
second chamber
second childhood
second class
Second Coming
second cousin
Second Empire
Second Epistle of John
second estate
second fiddle
second form
second gear
second generation
second growth
second hand
second home
second house
Second International
second language
second lieutenant

WORDS THAT END LIKE SECOND FLOOR

dance floor
dirt floor
factory floor
first floor
first-floor
floor
forest floor
get in on the ground floor
ground floor
ground-floor
pelvic floor
quarry-tiled floor
sea floor
shop floor
subfloor
take the floor
third floor
to end up on the cutting room floor
top floor
trading floor
underfloor

Synonyms and antonyms of second floor in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «second floor» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SECOND FLOOR

Find out the translation of second floor to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of second floor from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «second floor» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

二楼
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

segundo piso
570 millions of speakers

English

second floor
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दूसरी मंजिल
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الطابق الثاني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Второй этаж
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

segundo andar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দ্বিতীয় তলায়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

deuxième étage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

tingkat dua
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zweiten Stock
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

2階
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

2 층
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lantai loro
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tầng hai
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இரண்டாவது மாடி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुसरा मजला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ikinci kat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

secondo piano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

drugie piętro
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

другий поверх
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

etajul al doilea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δεύτερο όροφο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tweede verdieping
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

andra våningen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

andre etasje
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of second floor

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SECOND FLOOR»

The term «second floor» is very widely used and occupies the 21.639 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about second floor

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2 QUOTES WITH «SECOND FLOOR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word second floor.
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Darius Khondji
When you do movies on low budgets, you don't want to have a location that requires a very big light right outside the window when you're 10 stories up. You have to find a location where you have a terrace outside, or you can light from a second floor, or you can light through the windows for daylight.
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Emil Zatopek
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SECOND FLOOR»

Discover the use of second floor in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to second floor and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor
Edited by Reb Livingston and Molly Arden, the second volume of No Tell Motel's Bedside Guide explores the multi-faceted aspects of desire and appeal.
Molly Arden, Reb Livingston, 2007
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Catalogue of Works of Art Exhibited on the Second Floor: ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Boston Museum Of Fine Arts, 2011
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Second Floor, Spoopendyke, a Farce in Two Acts
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Grace Livingston Furniss, 2011
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Residential Framing: A Homebuilder's Construction Guide
5-8 Balloon framing construction details on interior and exterior load-bearing walls at the second floor. SI LL FOUNDATION 5-10 A typical assembled unit for the. CONSTRUCTION 5-7 Balloon framing utilizes two types of sill construction.
William Perkins Spence, 1993
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Billboard
Hotel. New. Yorker. and. Manhattan. Center,. New. York. City. July. 25,. 26,. 27,. 28. CONSOLIDATED. PROGRAM. Sunday, July 24 10:00 a.m. — Registration ( Ballroom Foyer, second floor) ...
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Mastering Autodesk VIZ 2007
This is the situation on the second floor of the villa. You could enter the subobject level of the second floor to detach the floor surface, and then treat the floor as a separate object. This works fine for some situations, but once the floor is ...
George Omura, Scott Onstott, Jon McFarland, 2006
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Rights to Light: A Consultation Paper
1968, the second floor of which was let to a tenant and used in open plan for the manufacturing of stage scenery; a small office was separated from the rest of the floor by a partition. In 1976 the tenant left and the claimant (the freeholder) took ...
Stationery Office (Great Britain), 2013
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Glacial Period
circa 1340-1345 Distemper on wood set on canvas, 64 cm x 29 cm On loan from the Bourges Museum, 1967, D.L.1967-1-b Denon Pavilion, Second Floor, Room 4 Page 47 Antonio Carracci The Deluge, circa 1616-1618 Canvas, 166 cm x 247  ...
Nicolas De Crécy, 2014
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How to Prepare for the LSAT: Law School Admission Test
(A) the first floor only (B) the second floor only (C) the third floor only (D) the second or the third floor (E) the first, second, or third floor 4. If D's and E's apartments are on the same floor, which one of the following must be true? (A) D and E are ...
Jerry Bobrow, 2005
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Generations in Touch: Linking the Old and Young in a Tokyo ...
Being a second-floor resident can in itself be a source of great satisfaction to many Kotoen residents. Very few second-floor residents seem comfortable with the idea that they will eventually be transferred to the third floor with ailing health.
Leng Leng Thang, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SECOND FLOOR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term second floor is used in the context of the following news items.
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'I went crazy,' says man who threw dog from second floor, deputies say
A Pompano Beach man says he was so angry with a friend that he beat his friend's dog and threw the dog from a second floor walkway outside his apartment, ... «Sun Sentinel, Jul 15»
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Philippines footwear factory fire: Bars on windows trapped workers …
Valenzuela city fire marshal Mel Jose Lagan said arson investigators will look into why the people were unable to escape from the second floor when there was ... «International Business Times UK, May 15»
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Waterville's Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter adding second floor
The two-story building will be 8,000 square feet on the ground floor and 8,000 square feet on the new second floor. Susan Reisert, the new chairwoman of the ... «Press Herald, May 15»
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Murdered on the streets of Karachi: my friend who dared to believe …
In 2007, the community space T2F (originally called The Second Floor, after its location in an office building) was born. It quickly became the city's leading venue ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
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Woman behind Pakistan's first hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, shot …
Conceived as a bookstore and café patterned after the old coffeehouse culture of Lahore and Karachi, The Second Floor — or T2F, as everyone calls it — says ... «Boing Boing, Apr 15»
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Cliffside Park responders rescue woman from second floor as blaze …
UPDATE: Police officers and firefighters rescued a middle-aged woman from the second-floor roof as a Cliffside Park two-family blaze raged tonight. The woman ... «Cliffviewpilot.com, Apr 15»
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Man dies after jumping from 2nd floor window to escape fire
"Heavy fire blowing out of the second floor window, it was threatening the exposure next door so we knocked off the second alarm to get extra companies here," ... «WLWT Cincinnati, Mar 15»
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Campbell: Fire crews douse blaze on second floor roof of townhouse
CAMPBELL -- The Santa Clara County Fire Department put out a blaze in the second floor roof of a townhouse Wednesday in Campbell, a spokeswoman said. «San Jose Mercury News, Mar 15»
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Worcester Firefighter Falls From Second Floor Window, Cushioned …
(AP) — A Worcester firefighter who fell from a second-floor window while battling a three-alarm house fire may have been spared more serious injury by a ... «CBS Local, Mar 15»
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Second-floor fire shuts Allentown's Cleveland Elementary School for …
Cleveland Elementary School in Allentown is closed Tuesday after a fire that started before students arrived. There was smoke in the second floor of the school ... «lehighvalleylive.com, Feb 15»

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