English

Noun

vacuum (plural: vacuums )

1. A region of space that lacks matter.
2. A suction device, especially a vacuum cleaner.

Synonym

• Hoover™ (2 British)

Antonym

• plenum (1)

Translations

• Arabic: فراغ
• Bulgarian: вакуум m (1), прахосмукачка f (2)
• Catalan: buit (1), aspiradora (2)
• Chinese: 真空 (1), 吸塵機 (2)
• Czech: vakuum n (1)
• Dutch: vacuüm n (1), stofzuiger m (2)
• Finnish tyhjiö (1), vakuumi (1), imuri (2), pölynimuri (2)
• French: vide m (1), vacuum m (1), aspirateur m (2)
• German: Vakuum n (1), Staubsauger m (2)
• Greek: κενό n (1), ηλεκτριτή σκούπα f (2)
• Interlingua: vacuo (1); aspirator (2)
• Italian: vuoto m (1), aspirapolvere m (2)
• Japanese: 真空 (1), 掃除機 (そうじき, soujiki) (2)
• Korean: 진공
• Lithuanian: vakuumas m
• Norwegian: vakuum n
• Polish: próżnia f (1), odkurzacz m (2)
• Portuguese: vácuo m (1), aspirador de pó m (2)
• Romanian: vid n (1), aspirator n (2)
• Russian: вакуум
• Spanish: vacío m (1), aspiradora f (2)

Verb

vacuum, present participle vacuuming , past and past participle vacuumed

1. clean with a vacuum cleaner (transitive or intransitive)

Synonyms

• Hoover™ (British)

Translations

• Catalan: passar l'aspiradora
• Dutch: stofzuigen
• Finnish:imuroida
• Interlingua: mundar c on le aspirator
• Italian: pulire con l'aspirapolvere
• Portuguese: aspirar

French

Noun

• See: vacuum