vacuum

CEFRB1

/ˈvæ.kjuːm/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A space with no air or other matter.

  2. 02

    noun

    A machine that cleans floors by sucking up dirt.

Examples

  • Corporations are competing to fill the vacuum.

  • Mac helped me carry the vacuum cleaner.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Ellipsis of vacuum cleaner.

  2. 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.

  3. A region of space that contains no matter.

More examples

In context

  • She used the new vacuum cleaner to clean the living room carpet.

  • a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch

  • Henrietta soon found a terrible vacuum left, by the letters in which she used to pour forth every feeling and thought to her uncle.

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Origin

noun

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”). The exercise sense comes from analogy to the sucking action of a vacuum cleaner.