Sweeper vs. Vacuum — What's the Difference?

Sweepers are small, tropical marine (occasionally brackish) perciform fish of the family Pempheridae. Found in the western Atlantic Ocean and Indo-Pacific region, the family contains about 26 species in two genera.

A vacuum is a space devoid of matter. The word is derived from the Latin adjective vacuus for "vacant" or "void".

One that sweeps.

Absence of matter.

A carpet sweeper.

A space empty of matter.

(Sports) A lone defender who plays between the last line of defenders and the goalie in some defensive configurations in soccer.

A space relatively empty of matter.

One who sweeps.

A space in which the pressure is significantly lower than atmospheric pressure.

One who sweeps floors or chimneys.

A state of emptiness; a void.

A detector (for mines).

A state of being sealed off from external or environmental influences; isolation.

Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.

Pl. vac·uums A vacuum cleaner.

(football) A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.

Of, relating to, or used to create a vacuum.

(curling) A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.

Containing air or other gas at a reduced pressure.

(cricket) A batsman who plays sweep shots.

Operating by means of suction or by maintaining a partial vacuum.

(cricket) A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.

To clean with or use a vacuum cleaner.

A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.

A region of space that contains no matter.

A carpet sweeper.

A vacuum cleaner.

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.

A group of students tasked at cleaning the homeroom after class dismissal.

(physics) A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude.

(hiking) The last person in the line of hikers that is responsible for ensuring no one gets separated from the group.

An emptiness in life created by a loss of a person who was close, or of an occupation.

(video games) A character designed or capable of knocking out multiple enemies in succession, usually due to a combination of high offense and high speed.

(transitive) To clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.

A large-radius, or high/medium speed corner in a racing circuit, named as such because of the ability of someone to trace the corner profile via "sweeping" motion of the arm.

(intransitive) To use a vacuum cleaner.

One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.

To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.

An employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)

A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.

A cleaning device with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the device is pushed over a carpet

The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.; as, a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch.

Little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body

The absence of matter

An empty area or space;

A region empty of matter

An electrical home appliance that cleans by suction

Clean with a vacuum cleaner;