Topic: [APPROVED] Tag alias: pinned_to_floor -> pinned_to_ground

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

I feel like "floor" is the more general term and "ground" is more specific, so the alias should maybe be flipped.

Watsit

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sipothac said:
I feel like "floor" is the more general term and "ground" is more specific, so the alias should maybe be flipped.

The opposite, I think. A floor is "The surface of a room on which one stands", "The lower or supporting surface of a structure", "A story or level of a building." The ground outside isn't typically called the "floor", but the inside floor can be called the ground.

watsit said:
The opposite, I think. A floor is "The surface of a room on which one stands", "The lower or supporting surface of a structure", "A story or level of a building." The ground outside isn't typically called the "floor", but the inside floor can be called the ground.

from Wiktionary for floor

  • The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
  • (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).

(also,

  • (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.

but colloquial, and also british.)

from Wiktionary for ground

  • The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
  • (uncountable) Terrain.
  • Soil, earth.
  • (countable) The bottom of a body of water.

I'm not finding any common definitions that would use "ground" to refer to the interior of a building or similar.

I agree with Watsit here, my dialect uses ground in a more general sense; I've never heard anyone call the surface of a yard the floor, for instance. That said, while some people call the floor of a building the ground, that is somewhat wrong.
"surface" would be a more general term that applies to both, but it can also be a bit too general.

scth said:
I agree with Watsit here, my dialect uses ground in a more general sense; I've never heard anyone call the surface of a yard the floor, for instance. That said, while some people call the floor of a building the ground, that is somewhat wrong.
"surface" would be a more general term that applies to both, but it can also be a bit too general.

+1 for surface

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