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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
vacuum From the web:
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crater
English
Etymology 1
First coined 1613, from Latin cr?t?r (“basin”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kr?t?r, “mixing-bowl, wassail-bowl”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?e?.t?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?e?.t?/
- Rhymes: -e?t?(r)
Noun
crater (plural craters)
- (astronomy) A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object. [from 1831]
- Synonym: astrobleme
- (geology) The basin-like opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up. [from 1610s]
- The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb. [from 1839]
- (informal, by extension) Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.
- (historical) Alternative spelling of krater (“vessel for mixing water and wine”)
- 1941, Louis MacNeice, The March of the 10,000:
- The people of those parts lived in underground houses - more of dug-outs - along with their goats and sheep and they had great craters full of wine, barley-wine, that they drank through reeds.
- 1941, Louis MacNeice, The March of the 10,000:
Hyponyms
Derived terms
See also
- machtesh
- caldera
Translations
References
- crater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
crater (third-person singular simple present craters, present participle cratering, simple past and past participle cratered)
- To form craters in a surface.
- To collapse catastrophically; to become devastated or completely destroyed.
- Synonyms: implode, hollow out
- (snowboarding) To crash or fall.
Translations
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /?k?e?.t??/
Noun
crater (plural craters)
- (Scotland, Ireland) Alternative form of creature.
- 1872, Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
- Then why not stop for fellow-craters -- going to thy own father's house too, as we be, and knowen us so well?
- 1872, Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
Usage notes
This term is still commonly used in speech but rarely appears in modern writing.
Anagrams
- Carter, arrect, carter, tracer
Latin
Alternative forms
- cr?t?ra
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (kr?t?r, “mixingbowl, wassail-bowl”), from ????????? (keránnumi, “to mix, to mingle, to blend”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?kra?.te?r/, [?k?ä?t?e?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kra.ter/, [?k???t??r]
Noun
cr?t?r m (genitive cr?t?ris or cr?t?ros); third declension
- A basin or bowl for water or for mixing.
- The opening of a volcano.
Declension
Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant).
Descendants
- ? English: crater
- ? Finnish: krateeri
- ? French: cratère
- ? German: Krater
- ? Serbo-Croatian: ???????
- ? Russian: ??????? (kráter)
- ? Spanish: cráter
References
- crater in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- crater in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crater in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crater in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- crater in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
Etymology
From French cratère
Noun
crater n (plural cratere)
- crater
Declension
crater From the web:
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- what crater is in arizona
- what crater means
- what crater was used in thor
- what craters from the watney triangle
- what crater did perseverance land in
- what craters are on mars
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