vacuum
Noun
- A space entirely devoid of matter, or a cleaning device.
- the absence of matter
- an empty area or space
- "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum"
- a region that is devoid of matter
- an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction
- A region of space that contains no matter.
- The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.
- Ellipsis of vacuum cleaner.
- A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude.
- An emptiness in life created by a loss of a person who was close, or of an occupation.
- An exercise in which one draws their abdomen towards the spine.
Verb
Verb Forms: vacuumed, vacuuming, vacuums
- To clean with a vacuum cleaner.
- clean with a vacuum cleaner
- "vacuum the carpets"
- To clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.
- To use a vacuum cleaner.
- To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.
Examples
- a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch
- I needed to VACUUM up some high-scoring tiles from the board to catch up in Words With Friends.
- The VACUUM created by my opponent’s bad play left me an open path to victory.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin vacuum (“vacuum”), a subsense of Classical Latin vacuum (“empty space”), a substantivised form of vacuus (“empty”); related to vacāre (“to be empty”).
Synonyms
emptiness, hoover, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum cleaner, vacuum-clean, void, to do the hoovering, to hoover
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 13
vacuum: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordvacuum: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
vacuum: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary