This is my theory.
The difference between ground and floor.
What is the difference between the ground and the floor.
Or built as the pavement is built but is still the ground.
Can t be that floors are inside as you have the sea floor and the forest floor.
The supporting surface of a room while ground is senseid uncountable the surface of the earth as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
The upper floors of the ground are defined as 1st floor 2nd floor 3rd floor and so on in britain.
As verbs the difference between floor and ground is that floor is to cover or furnish with a floor while ground is.
The term ground doesn t need to be qualified there is no such thing as a second ground whereas any building can have one or more floors or storeys.
Ground floor is the nearest floor of the ground.
The phrase ground floor of course refers to the floor of a building closest to the ground.
And the expression getting in on the ground floor means joining a venture at an early advantageous time.
In britain it is called ground floor and in america it is called level 1.
Not only do they refer to the floor as the ground but they call the ground the floor.
The floor at ground or street level is called the ground floor i e.
In other places ground floor and first floor are synonymous leading to conflicting numbering of floors depending between different national varities of english.
As nouns the difference between floor and ground is that floor is the bottom or lower part of any room.
In america those are defined as level 2 level 3 level 4 and so on.
At least so far dictionaries maintain the distinction between the two words.
If i find out anything more i ll put it on the blog so stay tuned.
It has no number and the floor above it is called first in many places.