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A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
Elsa Maxwell

Meaning of "vacuum cleaner" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VACUUM CLEANER

vacuum cleaner play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VACUUM CLEANER

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Vacuum cleaner is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VACUUM CLEANER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

vacuum cleaner

Vacuum cleaner

A vacuum cleaner is a device that uses an air pump to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from floors, and optionally from other surfaces as well. The dirt is collected by either a dustbag or a cyclone for later disposal. Vacuum cleaners, which are used in homes as well as in industry, exist in a variety of sizes and models— small battery-operated hand-held devices, domestic central vacuum cleaners, huge stationary industrial appliances that can handle several hundred litres of dust before being emptied, and self-propelled vacuum trucks for recovery of large spills or removal of contaminated soil.

Definition of vacuum cleaner in the English dictionary

The definition of vacuum cleaner in the dictionary is an electrical household appliance used for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, etc, by suction.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VACUUM CLEANER

vacuous
vacuously
vacuousness
vacuum
vacuum activity
vacuum aspiration
vacuum bottle
vacuum brake
vacuum cleaning
vacuum distillation
vacuum extraction
vacuum flask
vacuum forming
vacuum frame
vacuum gauge
vacuum pump
vacuum servo
vacuum tube
vacuum valve
vacuum-packed

WORDS THAT END LIKE VACUUM CLEANER

Afrikaner
air cleaner
Bikaner
caner
cleaner
cylinder vacuum cleaner
deaner
dry-cleaner
gleaner
Lipizzaner
loaner
oven cleaner
pipe cleaner
planer
street cleaner
sylvaner
upright vacuum cleaner
weaner
Weimaraner
window cleaner

Synonyms and antonyms of vacuum cleaner in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «vacuum cleaner» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VACUUM CLEANER

Find out the translation of vacuum cleaner to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of vacuum cleaner from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «vacuum cleaner» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

真空吸尘器
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

aspiradora
570 millions of speakers

English

vacuum cleaner
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वैक्यूम क्लीनर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مِكْنَسَةٌ كَهْرَبَائِيَّة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пылесос
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

aspirador de pó
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভ্যাকুয়াম ক্লিনার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

aspirateur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

penyedut habuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Staubsauger
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

電気掃除機
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

진공청소기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Vacuum cleaner
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

máy hút bụi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தூசி உறிஞ்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

व्हॅक्यूम क्लिनर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

elektrikli süpürge
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

aspirapolvere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

odkurzacz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пилосос
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

aspirator
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ηλεκτρική σκούπα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stofsuier
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dammsugare
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

støvsuger
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of vacuum cleaner

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VACUUM CLEANER»

The term «vacuum cleaner» is very widely used and occupies the 22.334 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of vacuum cleaner
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «vacuum cleaner».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VACUUM CLEANER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «vacuum cleaner» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «vacuum cleaner» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about vacuum cleaner

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10 QUOTES WITH «VACUUM CLEANER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word vacuum cleaner.
1
Roseanne Barr
The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.
2
John Barrymore
If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
3
Rodney Brooks
One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous.
4
Steve Burns
When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.
5
David Crystal
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.
6
Harriet Van Horne
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
7
Sophia Loren
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
8
John Maeda
I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.
9
Elsa Maxwell
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
10
Xavier Rudd
I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VACUUM CLEANER»

Discover the use of vacuum cleaner in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to vacuum cleaner and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Vacuum Cleaner: A History
This book describes the fascinating people who made this possible, as well as the economic, cultural, and technological contexts of their times.
Carroll Gantz, 2012
2
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A ...
From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth.
Meir Shalev, 2011
3
Fatbag: The Demon Vacuum Cleaner
Elsie Bunce could see that Fatbag was no ordinary vacuum cleaner. He had a hungry-looking mouth and he seemed to be staring at her. Little did she know that Fatbag had an evil plan ... Can he be stopped in time!
Jeremy Strong, 1997
4
Daddy Fixed the Vacuum Cleaner
After Daddy fixes it, the vacuum cleaner works so well that not even the baby's diaper is safe.
Robert Scotellaro, 1993
5
The Vacuum Cleaner Revelation
This book attacks the denial of the trapped through a real life confrontation with evil forces on a city level. The pages describe a momentum resembling a vacuum cleaner which is appropriate as the story begins in a pile of dirt.
Barbara J. Gunsolley, Barbara Wallace, 2006
6
Engelbert Sneem and His Dream Vacuum Machine
Englebert Sneem steals the happy dreams of sleeping children and keeps them for himself, but the tables are turned when one child has a nightmare about the thief.
Daniel Postgate, 2007
7
Mike Schmidt, the human vacuum cleaner
A brief biography of the star baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Mike Herbert, 1983
8
The Universal Vacuum Cleaner: And Other Riddle Poems
This book will provide hours of entertainment for anyone who enjoys puzzling and word-games, as well as being a highly satisfying collection of cleverly conceived poetry.
‎2005
9
Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the ...
that socket because she saw a flash when she turned on the vacuum cleaner. 1 Curious, of course, I hooked up the vacuum cleaner, stepped on the pedal, also saw a flash,2 and quickly turned it off again. I realized that the flash was not like ...
David J. Agans, 2002
10
Committed to the Call
Let's learn something from a vacuum cleaner salesman. Suppose you heard an announcement on the radio or television, or read an advertisement in the local newspaper, that the XYZ Vacuum Cleaner Company was planning a special ...
Jeffery Davis, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VACUUM CLEANER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term vacuum cleaner is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Man who killed girlfriend with vacuum cleaner gets 18 years
TACOMA, Wash. -- The Lakewood man who used a vacuum cleaner to beat his girlfriend to death after she refused to have sex with him was sentenced ... «KOMO News, Jun 15»
2
German robbers chased away by shopkeeper wielding vacuum
BERLIN A German shop assistant in a late-night convenience store chased away two armed robbers demanding money with the hose of a vacuum cleaner she ... «Reuters, Jun 15»
3
Thousands Of Shark Vacuum Cleaners Recalled For Shock Hazard
NV650W-NV652 photoLARGE Commercials for Shark vacuum cleaners boast the devices' plethora of uses: detaching the canister to clean at the top of ... «The Consumerist, Apr 15»
4
South Korean woman attacked as she sleeps by her VACUUM
Robot vacuum cleaners are slowly becoming commonplace. U.S firm iRobot has sold more than 10 million of its circular Roomba vacuum since it came on ... «Daily Mail, Feb 15»
5
Vacuum cleaner salesman brings joy to boy with autism on his …
Dylan Greene is a 14-year-old boy with autism who absolutely loves is vacuum cleaners. So for his 14th birthday, Dylan's mother Jodie arranged to have a Kirby ... «KTRK-TV, Jan 15»
6
Germany's leading vacuum cleaner is made in the UK
Dyson has become Germany's favourite brand of vacuum cleaner, beating ... the British engineering firm was named as the country's number one vacuum brand, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 15»
7
Christmas Henry vacuum cleaner nativity made in Westcliff-on-Sea
A nativity scene using Henry vacuum cleaners has been created in the window of an electrical goods shop in Essex. Kris Sale, from Sale Appliances in ... «BBC News, Dec 14»
8
Rush to buy vacuum cleaners boosts UK retail sales in August
A rush to buy powerful vacuum cleaners ahead of a Brussels ban boosted UK retail sales in August, as Britain's housing market revival triggered a record rise in ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 14»
9
James Dyson suggests leaving the EU over vacuum cleaners
A new law banning vacuum cleaners rated above 1,600 watts came into effect on September 1, as part of the European Commission's plans to meet targets on ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 14»
10
Dyson unveils 'intelligent' robot vacuum cleaner
Dyson has unveiled a robot vacuum cleaner, the 360 Eye, which navigates using a 360-degree vision system and can be programmed using an iPhone or ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Vacuum cleaner [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/vacuum-cleaner>. Apr 2024 ».
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