[
US
/ˈvækjum/
]
[ UK /vˈækjuːm/ ]
[ UK /vˈækjuːm/ ]
NOUN
- an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction
-
an empty area or space
the huge desert voids
without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum
the emptiness of outer space - the absence of matter
- a region that is devoid of matter
VERB
-
clean with a vacuum cleaner
vacuum the carpets
How To Use vacuum In A Sentence
- A vacuum absorbing device absorbs the smooth plane of the extracting device and the socket connector is positioned on the circuit board, thus achieving the goal of automatic assembling.
- We hope that this denomination will be faithful to God and will fill the spiritual vacuum left by liberalism.
- Nature and politics abhor a vacuum. Times, Sunday Times
- Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum.
- But the howling vacuum had opened up inside her again, with its endless vistas of nothingness and no return, the harlequinade of grasping, painted lovers. Shortcut Man
- The withdrawal of troops from the area has created a security vacuum which will need to be filled.
- Like one that would suck up the darkness like a vacuum cleaner.
- Also up for grabs were walking sticks, Zimmer frames, wheelchairs, microwaves, refrigerators and industrial vacuum cleaners.
- As the debris passes through the impeller that would normally be providing air flow to push leaves, it is shredded to many times its original size before entering the vacuum bag.
- When the photon hits an object, that object recoils - you can measure this using a thin sheet of foil in a vacuum.