英和和英

発音

• IPA: /væk/

名詞

vac (plural vacs)

1. (informal) Clipping of vacation (“extended period of time away from work or school”).
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 324:

     It was to be their last term at Oxford and Hilary had incited them both to journey with him to Provence for the long vac.

2. (informal) Clipping of vacuum cleaner.
3. Clipping of vacuum.
4. (informal) Clipping of vaccine.

派生語

• (vacation): long vac, swot vac
• (vacuum cleaner): minivac
• (vacuum): vac bed, vac pack

動詞

vac (third-person singular simple present vacs, present participle vaccing or vacking, simple past and past participle vacced or vacked)

1. To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
   • 2010, Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star, page 332:

     I went on to how Harold used to work in security on the building; he used to see Andy in the underground car-park vacking the sick out of the Merc.

参考

アナグラム

• ACV, AVC, CVA, Cav.

接尾辞

-vac

1. (obsolete, marketing, science fiction, computing, mid-20th century) Used in the naming of computer systems and computer models, due to the use of vacuum tubes as the functional elements of computers of the time.
2. (marketing) Used in the naming of vacuum cleaner models.

派生語

関連する語

• EDVAC
• ORDVAC
• UNIVAC
• vac
• vacuum
• vacuum cleaner
• vacuum tube

アナグラム

• ACV, AVC, CVA, Cav.