hoover
/ˈhuːvə/verb
उच्चारण हूव
वैक्यूम क्लीनर से सफ़ाई करना
Core word
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[I/T] British
to clean a carpet or floor with a vacuum cleaner
वैक्यूम क्लीनर से सफ़ाई करना
- I've hoovered the living room.
- She was hoovering when I arrived.
- Please hoover the stairs before the guests arrive.
+ 2 more examples
- He hoovered the carpet, then dusted the shelves.
- She hoovers the flat every Saturday morning.
Synonyms vacuum
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[C] British
a vacuum cleaner
वैक्यूम क्लीनर
- Can you pass me the Hoover?
- I will use the hoover before the guests arrive.
- The old Hoover in the cupboard still works.
+ 2 more examples
- She plugged in the hoover and started on the bedroom.
- The hoover was so noisy that the baby woke up.
§Structures (grammar patterns) 4
hoover + object (transitive verb)
In British English 'to hoover' means to clean a carpet or floor with a vacuum cleaner. The object is the thing cleaned.
British English में 'to hoover' का अर्थ वैक्यूम क्लीनर से क़ालीन या फ़र्श साफ़ करना है। Object वही चीज़ होती है जो साफ़ की जाती है।
- Radhika hoovered the living room before the guests arrived.
- I need to hoover the stairs.
hoover (intransitive)
It can also be used with no object when the job is understood.
जब काम समझा जा सके, तो इसे बिना object के भी प्रयोग किया जा सकता है।
- I hoovered on Saturday, so it is your turn.
hoover sth up
As a phrasal verb it means to clean something away with a vacuum cleaner, or informally to take in or eat something very fast.
Phrasal verb के रूप में इसका अर्थ वैक्यूम क्लीनर से कुछ साफ़ करना, या अनौपचारिक रूप से किसी चीज़ को बहुत जल्दी खा या ले लेना है।
- Please hoover up the crumbs from the sofa.
- The boys hoovered up all the snacks in minutes.
a Hoover / a hoover (noun)
'Hoover' began as a brand name and is used in Britain for any vacuum cleaner; it is common to write it with a small h.
'Hoover' मूलतः एक ब्रांड-नाम था और ब्रिटेन में किसी भी वैक्यूम क्लीनर के लिए प्रयुक्त होता है; इसे छोटे 'h' से भी लिखा जाता है।
- Switch off the hoover; the baby is asleep.
+Collocations 4
hoover + noun
the carpetthe floorthe stairsthe roomthe car seats
- He hoovered the car seats before the long trip.
adverb + hoover
thoroughlyquicklyregularlylazilycarefully
- She hoovers the house thoroughly every weekend.
adjective + hoover
oldnoisypowerfulcordlessupright
- The old hoover was too noisy to use at night.
hoover + phrasal
up the dustup crumbsout the carunder the bedround the room
- Hoover under the bed, too; there is a lot of dust.
“More examples 5
- The cleaner hoovers the school corridors every morning.
सफ़ाई कर्मचारी हर सुबह विद्यालय के गलियारों में वैक्यूम क्लीनर चलाता है।
- My mother asked me to hoover my room on Sunday.
मेरी माँ ने मुझसे रविवार को अपना कमरा वैक्यूम करने को कहा।
- He hoovered up three plates of biryani in no time.
उसने बिरयानी की तीन प्लेटें पल भर में चट कर लीं।
- A broken hoover is no use on a dusty day.
धूल भरे दिन टूटा हुआ वैक्यूम क्लीनर किसी काम का नहीं।
- The company hoovered up most of the small rivals in the market.
कंपनी ने बाज़ार के अधिकांश छोटे प्रतिद्वंद्वियों को समेट लिया।
!Common mistakes 2
✗ She is hoovering the carpet since morning.
✓ She has been hoovering the carpet since morning.
'Since' with a continuing action needs the present perfect continuous.
'Since' के साथ चलती हुई क्रिया के लिए present perfect continuous आता है।
✗ Please hoover up the dust of the floor.
✓ Please hoover up the dust from the floor.
Use 'from' to show where the dust is taken away.
धूल कहाँ से हटाई जा रही है, यह बताने के लिए 'from' आता है।
→Phrasal verbs 1
hoover sth up
(British) to remove something from a floor with a vacuum cleaner; (informal) to take or collect something in large quantities
वैक्यूम क्लीनर से साफ़ करना; (अनौपचारिक) भारी मात्रा में बटोर लेना
- Hoover up the crumbs under the table.
- Big companies have hoovered up most of the small shops.
≈Synonyms and antonyms
Synonyms
⌂Word origin and word building
From Hoover, a trademark, which in British English came to mean any vacuum cleaner.
यह trademark Hoover से आया है, जो British English में किसी भी vacuum cleaner के लिए प्रयोग होने लगा।