Meaning

3 senses

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

    clean with a vacuum cleaner

  2. (intransitive)To use a vacuum cleaner.

    staubsaugen, staubsaugen

    пылесо́ситьpylesósitʹ, пропылесо́ситьpropylesósitʹ, пылесо́ситьpylesósitʹ

    пилосо́ситиpylosósyty, пропилосо́ситиpropylosósyty, пилотяжитиpylotjažyty

  3. (transitive)To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.

Examples

172 sentences

  1. Tom is vacuuming the living room.

    Том пилососить у великій кімнаті. — deniko

    ruТом пылесосит в гостиной. — marafon

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  2. Tom asked me to vacuum the room.

    Том попросив мене пропилососити кімнату. — deniko

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  3. This vacuum cleaner makes a lot of noise.

    Цей пилосос сильно шумить. — deniko

    ruЭтот пылесос делает много шума. — Lenin_1917

    deDieser Staubsauger macht viel Lärm. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. Cats hate vacuum cleaners.

    Коти ненавидять пилососи. — deniko

    ruКошки ненавидят пылесосы. — Balamax

    deKatzen hassen Staubsauger. — xtofu80

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  5. May I use the vacuum cleaner?

    ruМожно мне воспользоваться пылесосом? — odexed

    deDarf ich den Staubsauger benutzen? — Manfredo

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
transitive: to clean with a vacuum cleaner:
Русский
By meaning 1
transitive: to clean with a vacuum cleaner:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
transitive: to clean with a vacuum cleaner:

Origin

Borrowed from New Latin vacuum (“vacuum”), a subsense of Classical Latin vacuum (“empty sp

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”).

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Forms

vacuums, vacuuming, vacuumed, vacuumed
Base formvacuum · to vacuum
3rd person singularvacuums
Present participlevacuuming
Past simplevacuumed
Past participlevacuumed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyvacuum
he, she, itvacuums

Past simpleLesson

all personsvacuumed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave vacuumed
he, she, ithas vacuumed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill vacuum

Synonyms

4 synonyms
hooverto do the hooveringto hoover
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
vaccineB2vacillatevacuousvadavagabond

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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