different between ditch vs vacuum
ditch
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Etymology 1
From Middle English dich, from Old English d?? (“trench, moat”) from Proto-Germanic *d?kaz (compare Swedish dike, Icelandic díki, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk (“id.”), German Teich (“pond”)), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eyg?- (“to stick, set up”) (compare Latin f?g? (“to affix, fasten”), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”)). Doublet of dike.
Noun
ditch (plural ditches)
- A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
- (Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
- c. 1947, Patrick Kavanagh, Stony Grey Soil
- You flung a ditch on my vision
- Of beauty, love and truth.
- O stony grey soil of Monaghan
- You burgled my bank of youth!
- 2013, Frank McNally, When Anglophone lines get crossed
- The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).
- c. 1947, Patrick Kavanagh, Stony Grey Soil
References
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- fosse
- moat
Verb
ditch (third-person singular simple present ditches, present participle ditching, simple past and past participle ditched)
- (transitive) To discard or abandon.
- To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
- (intransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
- (intransitive) To dig ditches.
- (transitive) To dig ditches around.
- (transitive) To throw into a ditch.
Synonyms
- abandon
- discard
- dump
- jettison
- lose
- shed
- See also Thesaurus:junk
Translations
Etymology 2
From earlier deche, from Middle English dechen, from Old English d?can (“to smear, plaster, daub”). More at deech.
Verb
ditch (third-person singular simple present ditches, present participle ditching, simple past and past participle ditched)
- Alternative form of deech
Noun
ditch (usually uncountable, plural ditches)
- Alternative form of deech
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vacuum
English
Alternative forms
- vacuüm (rare)
Etymology
From Latin vacuum (“an empty space, void”), noun use of neuter of vacuus (“empty”), related to vacare (“be empty”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?væ.kju?m/, /?væ.kju?.?m/
Noun
vacuum (plural vacuums or (rare) vacua) (see usage notes)
- A region of space that contains no matter.
- (plural only "vacuums") A vacuum cleaner.
- 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.
- a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch
- (physics) A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude
Usage notes
- The Latin in vacuo is sometimes used instead of in a vacuum (in free space).
Synonyms
- (a region of space that contains no matter): vacancy, void
- (vacuum cleaner): hoover (British)
Antonyms
- (region of space that contains no matter): plenum
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
vacuum (third-person singular simple present vacuums, present participle vacuuming, simple past and past participle vacuumed)
- (transitive) To clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.
- (intransitive) To use a vacuum cleaner.
- (transitive, databases) To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.
Synonyms
- (transitive sense): to hoover (British)
- (intransitive sense): to do the hoovering, to hoover (British)
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.k??m/
Noun
vacuum m (plural vacuums)
- vacuum (space containing no matter)
Synonyms
- vide
Descendants
- Turkish: vakum
Further reading
- “vacuum” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Adjective
vacuum
- accusative neuter singular of vacuus
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin vacuum
Noun
vacuum n (plural vacuumuri)
- vacuum
Declension
Spanish
Alternative forms
- vácuum (recommended)
Noun
vacuum m (plural vacuums)
- vacuum
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