hoover

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

Verb

1. (British, Ireland, ambitransitive) To clean (a room, etc.) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
2. (British, Ireland, intransitive) To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
3. (transitive) To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner.

Conceptes

aspirador

aspiradora

passar l´aspiradora

Sinònims

vacuum

vacuum cleaner

vacuum-clean

download

suck

clean

vacuum sweeper

Traduccions

Staubsauger

aspirateur

aspirapolvere

staubsaugen

aspiradora

ηλεκτρική σκούπα

stofzuiger

aspirer

aspirador

passer

nettoyer

saugen

sucer

مِكْنَسَة كَهْرَبَائِيَّة

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈhuːvə(ɹ)/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Genericized trademark of Hoover, the brand name of one of the first vacuum cleaners, which was sold by The Hoover Company. The American company was founded by William Henry Hoover (1849–1932) and his son Herbert William Hoover, Sr. (1877–1954). The surname Hoover is an Anglicized version of the German Huber, originally designating a landowner or a prosperous small-scale farmer.