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Who changed the way vacumn was spelled 40 years ago? According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, vacuum entered English in the 1540s directly from Latin as the substantivized, neuter form of the adjective vacuus The earliest use was as an abstract, non-count noun denoting the emptiness of space, later any void or empty space, for which one could use the Latin plural vacua or simply tack on
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
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
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
british english - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 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
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
single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I am currently working on a paper that involves describing the conditions under which a rover sent to a celestial body (eg the moon) operates As a part of that, I want to say, The body of the ro
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The black skin stretched upon the bones and their faces split and shrunken on their skulls Like victims of some ghastly envacuuming IMO, McCarthy is employing the prefix en- to conjure up a vision of corpses which have been vacuum-ed from the inside, causing their skin to stretch tautly, and faces to shrink Ugh!
Is the word mistake a concrete or abstract noun? [duplicate] You seem to use 'tangibility' as the only criterion to distinguish concrete and abstract nouns But the question remains whether something is tangible or not For example, is information tangible? If you can see some information, it's tangible and thus a concrete noun, and if you only have some information in your head, it's intangible and thus an abstract noun? How about 'atmosphere'? In The