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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An electrical appliance that cleans surfaces by suction.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A domestic or industrial mobile machine for cleaning floors and similar surfaces that draws dust and other particles into a container (often a bag) by the suction created by an electric motor driving a fan.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. A machine for cleaning carpets, tapestry, upholstered work, etc., by suction; -- sometimes called a vacuum.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction

Examples

  • “There was a label pasted on the lid, a large white one, coloured with a crude illustration in red depicting a vacuum cleaner of the Hoover type sweeping a white swathe. upon a spotted carpet.”

    Fictionaut: Movie Night

  • “She alphabetizes the videotape library and has the vacuum cleaner repaired.”

    Simon & Schuster: Some Fun

  • “A combination remote-operated vehicle, underwater vacuum cleaner and sub-bottom sonar," he enthused.”

    Crusader Gold

  • “Janvier could not help pulling a face at the idea of lugging a vacuum cleaner from house to house.”

    Maigret has Scruples

  • “A SALESMAN NAMED JAMIE KNOCKED on a door in Twin Falls, Idaho, hoping to sell a vacuum cleaner to the couple who lived there.”

    Simon & Schuster: It’s Your Time

  • “At seven-forty the next morning, at the far end of the third-floor hall, the vacuum cleaner coughed, sputtered, and roared into life.”

    Blood Lines

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. hoover
  1. vacuum

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. home appliance
  1. household appliance

hyponyms (1)

Words that are more specific

  1. hoover

reverse dictionary (13)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. hoover
  2. back-formation
  1. Hoover
  2. appliance
  1. vac
  2. vacuum bag
  1. vacuum-clean
  2. attachment
  1. demonstrate
  2. extension
  1. vacuum
  2. wand
  1. dust bag

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