Hoover vs. Vacuum

Hoovernoun

A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

Hooververb

To clean (a room, etc.) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

Hooververb

To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

Hooververb

(transitive) To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner.

Hoovernoun

a kind of vacuum cleaner.

Hooververb

to clean with a vacuum cleaner.

Hoovernoun

United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)

Hoovernoun

United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)

Hoovernoun

31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)

Hoovernoun

a kind of vacuum cleaner

Hooververb

clean with a vacuum cleaner;

Hoovernoun

a vacuum cleaner, properly one made by the Hoover company.

Hoovernoun

a US city in north central Alabama, south of Birmingham; population 71,020 (est. 2008).

Hooververb

clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner

Hooververb

suck something up with or as if with a vacuum cleaner

Hooververb

consume something quickly and eagerly

Vacuumnoun

A region of space that contains no matter.

Vacuumnoun

(plural only "vacuums") A vacuum cleaner.

Vacuumnoun

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.

Vacuumnoun

(physics) A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude

Vacuumverb

(transitive) To clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.

Vacuumverb

(intransitive) To use a vacuum cleaner.

Vacuumverb

To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.

Vacuumnoun

A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.

Vacuumnoun

The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.; as, a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch.

Vacuumnoun

the absence of matter

Vacuumnoun

an empty area or space;

Vacuumnoun

a region empty of matter

Vacuumnoun

an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction

Vacuumverb

clean with a vacuum cleaner;

Vacuum

A vacuum is a space devoid of matter. The word is derived from the Latin adjective vacuus for or .