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• n  the absence of matter
• n  an empty area or space
  without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum
• n  a region that is devoid of matter
• n  an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction
• v  clean with a vacuum cleaner
  vacuum the carpets

• PRODUCT An automatic vacuum coffee pot, due out this week, that Starbucks is marketing as the.
• E-Mail a Friend Let's face it, vacuuming sucks.
• A little robot called Roomba vacuums your house while you lounge by the pool.

• vacuity
• void
• vacancy
• emptiness
• vacuum cleaner
• vacuum-clean
• hoover

News & Articles

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• Advanced Vacuum Releases Apex SLR, a Highly Reliable, Easily Maintained, and Robust Platform ...
  Lomma, Sweden, – Advanced Vacuum releases the Apex SLR, a robust ICP system based on Plasma-Therm’s proven Shuttlelock® (SLR) platform with a much smaller footprint. With many years of proven SLR technology and an extensive process library, users will be able to ‘hit the ground running.’ With over 50,000 cycles of testing, the Apex will provide the reliability and ...
  June 14, 2013 - ThomasNet
• Heavy-Duty HEPA Vacuum moves more material with less wear.
  Heavy Duty HEPA Vac attaches to 55 gal open top drum to turn it into industrial vacuum cleaner. While pre-filter stops larger particles, HEPA filter handles smaller matter. All filters are tested for 99.97% min filtration at 0.3 micron level, and 82 dBA operation accommodates needs of various environments. Some standard features include vacuum, lever lock drum lid, shutoff valve, pre-filter, 10 ...
  June 13, 2013 - ThomasNet
• Want proof that NSA snooping thwarts terror plots? Stand by, senator says
  Americans will soon be able to judge for themselves the merits of National Security Agency programs to vacuum up massive amounts of digital data, because intelligence officials hope to declassify terrorist attacks thwarted by the controversial data-mining systems as early as Monday, the Senate’s top lawmaker on intelligence issues said Thursday.
  June 13, 2013 - Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• George Mitchell in TheStreet.com
  Obviously, the players who illegally used performance enhancing substances are responsible for their actions,Mitchell wrote in the report. "But they did not act in a vacuum. Everyone involved in baseball over the past two decades --...
• Benazir Bhutto in Guardian Unlimited
  Bhutto said US officials "worry about what would happen if Musharraf left and there would be a vacuum. So that is a concern, and a valid concern," she said.
• Meles Zenawi in Canoe.ca
  It would be strange if the Shabab and others did not try to capitalize on the fact that a significant proportion of the peacekeeping operation in Somalia was leaving and to try to fill in whatever vacuum they feel there is,Meles said. "But...