vac

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vac"

English

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /væk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

vac (plural vacs)

1. (informal) Clipping of vacation.
   • 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.

Derived terms

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

Verb

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.

See also

• sits vac

 

Anagrams

• ACV, AVC, CVA, Cav.

Huave

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Doublet of wacüx.

Noun

vac

1. cow

References

• Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert, Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence, Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso, Ponce Villanueva, Tereso, Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 177

Romanian

Noun

vac n (plural vacuri)

1. Obsolete form of veac.

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) vac	vacul	(niște) vacuri	vacurile
genitive/dative	(unui) vac	vacului	(unor) vacuri	vacurilor
vocative	vacule		vacurilor

Declension of vac

References

• vac in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vacca. Cognates include Finnish vatsa.

Noun

vac

1. belly

Declension

Inflection of vac (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	vac
genitive sing.	vacan
partitive sing.	vacad
partitive plur.	vacoid
	singular	plural
nominative	vac	vacad
accusative	vacan	vacad
genitive	vacan	vacoiden
partitive	vacad	vacoid
essive-instructive	vacan	vacoin
translative	vacaks	vacoikš
inessive	vacas	vacoiš
elative	vacaspäi	vacoišpäi
illative	vacaha vacha	vacoihe
adessive	vacal	vacoil
ablative	vacalpäi	vacoilpäi
allative	vacale	vacoile
abessive	vacata	vacoita
comitative	vacanke	vacoidenke
prolative	vacadme	vacoidme
approximative I	vacanno	vacoidenno
approximative II	vacannoks	vacoidennoks
egressive	vacannopäi	vacoidennopäi
terminative I	vacahasai vachasai	vacoihesai
terminative II	vacalesai	vacoilesai
terminative III	vacassai	—
additive I	vacahapäi vachapäi	vacoihepäi
additive II	vacalepäi	vacoilepäi