Sweeper vs. Vacuum

Sweepernoun

One who sweeps floors or chimneys.

Sweepernoun

A detector (for mines).

Sweepernoun

Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.

Sweepernoun

(football) A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.

Sweepernoun

(curling) A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.

Sweepernoun

(cricket) A batsman who plays sweep shots.

Sweepernoun

(cricket) A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.

Sweepernoun

A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.

Sweepernoun

A carpet sweeper.

Sweepernoun

A vacuum cleaner.

Sweepernoun

A group of students tasked at cleaning the homeroom after class dismissal.

Sweepernoun

One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.

Sweepernoun

an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)

Sweepernoun

a cleaning device with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the device is pushed over a carpet

Sweepernoun

little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body

Sweeper

Sweepers are small, tropical marine (occasionally brackish) perciform fish of the family Pempheridae. Found in the western Atlantic Ocean and Indo-Pacific region, the family contains about 26 species in two genera.

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 .