- pronunciation - Why is vacuum pronounced [ˈvæ. kjuːm] and not [ˈvæ . . .
+1 It seems that vacuum is the odd word out when placed in a lineup with (for example) continuum, individuum, menstruum, and residuum I don't know why the -uum in vacuum came to be pronounced differently from the -uum in the others, but to judge from the pronunciation offered in John Walker's A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language (1807), 'twas not always thus
- How different is “Nothingness” from “Nothing,” “Emptiness,” “Void . . .
Overall, emptiness is only about twice as common as nothingness, but "emptiness in her heart" is about 1000 times more common than "nothingness in her heart" But both words, along with void, vacuum etc [can] mean much the same thing
- Can I call a vacuum cleaner cleaner a vacuum cleaner?
If a 'vacuum cleaner cleaner' is a machine for cleaning vacuum cleaners, then the person who cleans the vacuum cleaner cleaner would be a 'vacuum cleaner cleaner cleaner'
- Where is the root morpheme in Modern English evacuate and vacuum?
Clearly they are related through Latin, from e- and vacare (out of and to empty) and from vacuus (empty), and in Latin the shared morpheme is vac- More interesting may be the relationships with vain, vast and waste which have similar origins in Latin or proto-Indo-European, but which have more specific meanings in modern English
- What does programming in a vacuum mean? - English Language Usage . . .
A perfect vacuum would be one with no particles in it at all, which is impossible to achieve in practice Physicists often discuss ideal test results that would occur in a perfect vacuum, which they simply call "vacuum" or "free space", and use the term "partial vacuum" to refer to real vacuum
- Gap, void or vacuum? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Considering their primary meanings, vacuum is used more often in a scientific context, in which case it means space completely or partially absent of any matter air It is a scientific term, while void can be used non-technically in a more abstract sense, but it can also be used when talking about empty space in a non-scientific way
- Electronic vs. electric - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The vacuum tube was soon replaced by semi-conductor materials The technology was named solid state electronics because, semi-conductor materials, like vacuum, are actually insulators that can conduct more or less when activated
- british english - Is hoover capitalised? - English Language Usage . . .
In the UK (and sometimes Australia), a vacuum cleaner will be called a hoover, regardless of its brand Likewise, the verb "to vacuum" is replaced with "to hoover" With a brand name being used in
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