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单词 vacuum
释义
vacuum
(vækjuːm , -juːəm )
Word forms: vacuums , vacuuming , vacuumed
1. countable noun [usually singular]
If someone or something creates a vacuum, they leave a place or position which then needs to be filled by another person or thing.
The collapse of the army left a vacuum in the area.
His presence should fill the power vacuum which has been developing over the past few days.
Synonyms: gap, lack, absence, space  
2. in a vacuum phrase
If something is done in a vacuum, it is not affected by any outside influences or information.
Moral values cannot be taught in a vacuum.
We lived in a vacuum–no life, no news, no books.
3. verb
If you vacuum something, you clean it using a vacuum cleaner.
I vacuumed the carpets today. [VERB noun]
It's important to vacuum regularly. [VERB]
Synonyms: vacuum-clean, hoover  
4. countable noun [usually singular]
A vacuum is a space that contains no air or other gas.
Wind is a current of air caused by a vacuum caused by hot air rising.
The spinning turbine creates a vacuum.
Synonyms: emptiness, space, void, gap  
Image of vacuum
Quotations:
Nature abhors a vacuumFrançois RabelaisGargantua
Idioms:
in a vacuum
separately from the things that you would expect something to be connected with
Such decisions do not occur in a political vacuum, but have serious political implications both at home and abroad.
Collocations:
ideological vacuum
But given the economic and social backdrop, the trend has still been surprising and the ideological vacuum still evident.
Times, Sunday Times
But the result, she said, was an 'ideological vacuum'.
Times, Sunday Times
But the collapse of the left, which was at the heart of the 1945 consensus, has created an ideological vacuum.
Times, Sunday Times
moral vacuum
That has left a moral vacuum at the centre of business education - and, arguably, management itself.
Times, Sunday Times
There we can appreciate its qualities, as though in a moral vacuum.
The Times Literary Supplement
The past 50 years show that the creation of a moral vacuum in society has not been a success.
Times, Sunday Times
We have created a moral vacuum around our young people.
Times, Sunday Times
Now that speaks to me of a moral vacuum.
Times, Sunday Times
spiritual vacuum
Nature abhors a vacuum, and these new spiritualities are filling the spiritual vacuum left by unsatisfactory church connections.
Christianity Today
This, he claimed, had 'left a moral and spiritual vacuum and the breakdown of any shared value system'.
Times, Sunday Times
You can't minister out of a spiritual vacuum.
Christianity Today
A problem was the spiritual vacuum, which emerged after the church stopped being a state church.
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vacuum a floor
The older generation are more familiar with how to vacuum the floor or dust a shelf, with only one in 15 employing a cleaner.
Times, Sunday Times
There are already 'robots' on the market that will vacuum your floor, but in the medium term we will not have humanoid housekeepers.
Times, Sunday Times
Vacuum the floor thoroughly, paying particular attention to the edges and corners of the floor and the gaps between floorboards.
Times, Sunday Times
Everywhere you look the arguments for a rational approach to the use of technology - new device that autonomously vacuums my floors and carpets?
Times, Sunday Times
The day before the actual meeting, vacuum the floors in the room where the meeting will be held.
Christianity Today
vacuum device
They were removed from their underground burrows each spring, as young pups, with a large vacuum device.
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It collected insects using traps and large vacuum devices, and watched which species visited each plot.
Times, Sunday Times
Alternative treatments - such as other pills, injections and vacuum devices - are also available.
The Sun
These are commonly used in automobiles to alter the behavior of vacuum switches, vacuum motors, and other vacuum devices.
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As the ratings of solid-state devices improved in both voltage and current-handling capacity, vacuum devices have been nearly entirely replaced by solid-state devices.
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Translations:
Chinese: 真空吸尘, 空缺
Japanese: 電気掃除機で掃除する, 空白
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