Vacuum vs Mobile - What's the difference?
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A region of space that contains no matter.
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.
Capable of being moved.
By agency of mobile phones.
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Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
* Hawthorne
Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
(biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
A sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().
A mobile phone ().
Something that can move.
As nouns the difference between vacuum and mobile
is that vacuum is a region of space that contains no matter while mobile is a sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().As a verb vacuum
is to clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.As an adjective mobile is
capable of being moved.vacuum
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Alternative forms
* (rare)Noun
(wikipedia vacuum) (en-noun)- a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch
Usage notes
* In the sense of "a region of space that contains no matter", the plural of vacuum' is either '''vacua''' or '''vacuums'''. In the sense of a "vacuum cleaner" ' vacuums is the only plural. * The Latin in vacuo'' is sometimes used instead of ''in a vacuum (in free space).Synonyms
* (vacuum cleaner) hoover (British )Antonyms
* (region of space that contains no matter) plenumDerived terms
* power vacuum * vacuum brake * vacuum cleaner * vacuum pan * vacuum valveSynonyms
* (transitive sense) to hoover (British) * (intransitive sense) to do the hoovering, to hoover (British)mobile
English
(wikipedia mobile)Adjective
(en adjective)citation
- Mercury is a mobile liquid.
- (Testament of Love)
- the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
- mobile features