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- differences - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
There's also vacuum Volume with extremely little matter in it Volume with extremely little matter in it Perfect vacuum does not exist - there will always be some energy, some particles manifesting themselves spontaneously from quantum uncertainty, but generally lack of matter, including air is considered vacuum
- Idioms or phrases to answer to obvious (yes) questions?
Do vacuum cleaners suck? Is water wet? Is the hypotenuse the longest side of a triangle? Does a bear live in the woods? I’ll answer you with my favorite ‘Y’ word—Yes! Is the sky blue? I totally ‘scored’ getting asked by you Yes! How do you spell yes? Would you take ‘yes’ for an answer? I haven’t said no yet, right?
- What word would you use for movement of bushes?
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- Referring to objects as she [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . .
I only relate my own experiences in the matter Your observation that the objects a not necessarily unknown is valid, hence my frequent use of the weasel-word 'tends' I agree with your observation about the vacuum cleaner, although I would tend to think in that case the use of "she" would tend to lean toward the pejorative –
- Where is the root morpheme in Modern English evacuate and vacuum?
They both are cognates (it can be easily proved by many etymological sources) The question is : Is it possible to consider VAC as a common root for evacuate and vacuum (we may go further - vacation, vacancy, vacuous etc )
- Who changed the way vacumn was spelled 40 years ago?
vacuum: 725,895 matches; earliest confirmed match from the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (July 10, 1803): The walls of the New Bridge are already raised nearly five feet, and are 24 feet asunder, which vacuum will be filled by a solid mound ; and the span of the Arch likewise measures 24 feet
- pronunciation - Why is vacuum pronounced [ˈvæ. kjuːm] and not [ˈvæ . . .
By the way, Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003) continues to list a three-syllable pronunciation of vacuum as a secondary (or tertiary) pronunciation of the word, and as late as Webster's New International Dictionary (1909), the dictionary doesn't even bother to provide a pronunciation independent of its prescribed syllable division, presumably because the people at Merriam
- Origin of bug in reference to software - English Language Usage . . .
The stories about finding bugs in vacuum tubes and never seemed quite convincing; I suspect the better question is to ask about the origin of "bug" in engineering (going back further than computers) – benzado
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