vacuuming
掃除機をかける
解説 Definition
vacuuming は vacuum（掃除機をかける）の現在分詞・動名詞です。動作としての「掃除機をかけること」を表し、家事や清掃の文脈でよく使われます。
Vacuuming is the activity of cleaning a floor, carpet, furniture, or another surface with a vacuum cleaner. As a gerund, it names the household or professional cleaning task performed by using suction to remove dust and dirt.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
動詞 vacuum「掃除機をかける」に -ing を付けた現在分詞・動名詞です。語末が -um なので子音を重ねず、そのまま vacuuming とします。ここでは「掃除機がけ」という行為を表す名詞用法で、finish vacuuming、regular vacuuming、vacuuming the carpet で覚えます。
Start with the verb vacuum, meaning to clean something with a vacuum cleaner. Add -ing directly, without doubling the final consonant, to make vacuuming. In these examples it functions as a gerund and names the activity itself: vacuuming the carpet, finish vacuuming, and regular vacuuming. Picture the machine using suction to remove dust from a room. The connection with vacuum, an empty space, reflects the low-pressure principle behind suction, but in everyday household English vacuuming simply means doing this cleaning task.
例文
Vacuuming the carpet took only ten minutes.
カーペットに掃除機をかけるのに10分しかかかりませんでした。
He finished vacuuming before the guests arrived.
彼は来客が到着する前に掃除機がけを終えました。
Regular vacuuming helps keep the room clean.
定期的に掃除機をかけると、部屋を清潔に保つのに役立ちます。
vacuuming の類義語・関連語
vacuuming の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語「vacuum（空の空間）」→「vacuus（空の）」が語源。掃除機（vacuum cleaner）が空気を吸い出して真空状態を作る仕組みに由来する命名。関連語：vacant（空いた）、evacuate（避難させる＝空にする）。語根vac-は「空」を意味し、休暇vacationも「仕事を空にする」が原義。
Vacuuming is the -ing form of the verb vacuum. Vacuum entered English from Latin vacuum, the neuter form of vacuus, meaning “empty” or “unoccupied.” After vacuum came to name a space largely emptied of matter, vacuum cleaner was coined for a cleaning machine that removes dust by suction. The shortened verb vacuum then developed, and vacuuming came to denote either the ongoing action or the activity of cleaning with that machine.
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