I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
vacuum cleaner
vacuum flask
vacuum tube
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
moral
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Nevertheless the discretion is not to be exercised in a moral vacuum .
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In sum, many of these kids are growing up in a moral and ethical vacuum .
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In a moral and institutional vacuum , any strategy constitutes a shock therapy.
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There is no satisfying solution to the moral vacuum that is created when one human being murders another.
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In both cases the result of improvement is a dehumanized landscape and something like a moral vacuum .
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Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum .
political
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The result is a permanent war establishment run by a privately incorporated economy operating within a political vacuum .
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In the post-Nehru political vacuum , this was simply a recipe for instability.
social
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Isolation creates a social vacuum , an absence of intimacy which removes both comfort and knowledge.
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Marita was being asked to write in a cognitive and social vacuum .
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It is a phenomenon which occurs in a social and economic vacuum .
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However, such an assumption is simply not tenable, for science and technology do not develop in a social vacuum .
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Old people do not live in a social vacuum , pursuing their personal goals in ways which do not impinge on others.
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He soon realises that he has lost all his friends, and is surrounded by a social vacuum .
■ NOUN
chamber
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One was its glass house-the vacuum chamber that shielded the chronometer from troubling changes of atmospheric pressure and humidity.
cleaner
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On the contrary - it uses up the time we've saved with the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner .
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No refrigerator, no radio, no telephone, no automatic laundry, no vacuum cleaner .
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The Mini Vac is an attachment which can be used in conjunction with your household vacuum cleaner .
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So, he also sold vacuum cleaners door to door.
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How often do you use your vacuum cleaner , and what do you wear to do the cleaning?
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But government orders have dried up and the factory is struggling now by making vacuum cleaners and coffee makers.
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She switched on the vacuum cleaner .
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A portable vacuum cleaner is most helpful for sand up the wazoo. 2.
flask
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Fairfax's steward has packed sandwiches for us and an ancient vacuum flask of tea.
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What if we place Professor Summerlee upon the table, within the vacuum flask , in place of the cat?
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What is it about vacuum flasks that makes every drink taste like there's a chunk of dead mouse at the bottom?
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Keep the mixture in a vacuum flask for 6-8 hours.
policy
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Indeed, one of the key features of the Nottinghamshire initiative was that it occurred in somewhat of a policy vacuum .
power
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To force the pace now was irresponsible, and could lead to a power vacuum .
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In the power vacuum following the trials, Berlusconi became Prime Minister.
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A power vacuum would probably destroy his hopes for a smooth transition of authority.
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Pavlov had warned on Aug. 13 of a potential power vacuum , unless the centre retained sufficient economic leverage.
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Mr Yeltsin insists simultaneous balloting could create a dangerous power vacuum .
tube
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The ideal atmosphere for the vacuum tube is no atmosphere at all, or a perfect vacuum.
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Powered by vacuum tubes , those old radar units are now dinosaurs.
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The breath samples, stored in special vacuum tubes , are sent to Meretek for lab analysis.
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Just another snooty $ 3, 000 vacuum tube amplifier, I thought.
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Here he makes such suggestions as imitating simple neuron functions by using telegraph relays or vacuum tubes .
■ VERB
create
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The exclusion of air to create a vacuum .
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Isolation creates a social vacuum , an absence of intimacy which removes both comfort and knowledge.
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But from a moral point of view its decision has created a vacuum that needs to be filled.
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The delay has also created a vacuum , which politics abhors.
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But globalisation has created a vacuum of responsibility.
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Buyers brought forward purchases in August to beat the deadline on stamp duty, creating a vacuum in the following month.
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There was widespread acknowledgement that the absence of the Unionist parties had created a partial vacuum .
exist
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Forms of knowledge, even the most pure and theoretical, do not exist in a vacuum .
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The judiciary does not and can not exist in a vacuum , immune to civic concerns and shifting realities.
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Most agreed there existed a certain vacuum .
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Organizations do not exist in a vacuum .
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Equally, concepts, the stuff of rules, can not exist in a vacuum as mere semantic toys.
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The social worker's client does not, after all, exist in a vacuum .
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The interpretation is a valuable reminder that the crisis of 1483 did not exist in a vacuum .
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Ideas do not exist in a vacuum , free-floating in outer space, waiting to be corralled.
fill
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Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will fill the vacuum created when Felipe Gonza lez was defeated as prime minister in 1996.
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Al Capone and bootleggers filled the vacuum: bathtub spirits, peepholes in the door, Joe-sent-me.
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No new politician has come to the fore, so others vie to fill the vacuum .
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Unfortunately, good many of us in the United States have filled the hate vacuum by hating each other.
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And Right-to-Life ideology has filled the vacuum .
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The man and the congregation caught change on the wing, adapted and filled a vacuum created by forces not everyone understood.
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Other cars screamed in to fill the sudden vacuum of our wake.
leave
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This leaves a vacuum at the centre of the nation: in a London where there are no native Londoners.
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Destroying one pest leaves a vacuum that will be filled by something else.
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He had taken with him more badness than goodness, leaving not a vacuum , but a breathing space.
operate
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The apparatus was operated remotely in a vacuum and in a temperature-controlled chamber.
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The millwrights and other inventors who were making these technical developments were not operating in a vacuum .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He shook religion out of her mind, as it were, and into the vacuum rushed something rather disagreeable.
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His adolescence and young manhood had occurred in a vacuum .
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This made a partial vacuum , which kept the cardboard attached to the mouth of the glass.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Have you vacuumed the carpets?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He vacuums a third time, for a few seconds longer.
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His chair having to be replaced after vacuuming in exactly the same position as before.
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I loved getting the housework done during the week and then playing on the weekend, all the vacuuming done.
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I stay in, play Bach on the earphones and vacuum the broadloom.
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Meanwhile, his receptionist can not vacuum fat, nor can she type as fast.
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The inside has been vacuumed recently, too.
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They sent him along to vacuum the carpets, but he wound up with his very own theatre to practice in.