vacuum

vacuum
   to destroy incriminating evidence
   Sweeping it out of sight:
    [Associate White House Counsel William H. Kennedy III] was summoned before the Senate Banking Committee to explain why he had written 'Vacuum Rose law files... Documents never know, go out quietly' in his notes at a White House meeting on November 5, 1993. (Evans-Pritchard, 1997 — perhaps on that particular day it would have been better to put them on the bonfire with the guy)

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  • Vacuum — Основная информация Жанр синти поп Электропоп …   Википедия

  • Vacuum — Vac u*um, n.; pl. E. {Vacuums}, L. {Vacua}. [L., fr. vacuus empty. See {Vacuous}.] 1. (Physics) A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • vacuum — [ vakɥɔm ] n. m. • 1872; mot lat. ♦ Sc. Espace vide, sans matière. ⇒ vide. ⊗ HOM. Vacuome. vacuum n. m. Didac. Espace vide, sans matière. ⇒VACUUM, subst. masc. PHYS. Espace vide, milieu vide. Synon. vide. Entre l atome et l observation il y a une …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • vacuum — VÁCUUM, vacuumuri, s.n. 1. (fiz.) Vid. 2. Aparat în care se concentrează o soluţie, prin fierbere în vid, la temperaturi joase. [pr.: cu um] – Din lat., fr. vacuum. Trimis de bogdanrsb, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DEX 98  VÁCUUM s. v. vid. Trimis …   Dicționar Român

  • vacuum — [vak′yo͞om, vak′yo͞o əm] n. pl. vacuums or vacua [vak′yo͞o ə] [L, neut. sing. of vacuus, empty] 1. a space with nothing at all in it; completely empty space 2. a) an enclosed space, as that inside a vacuum tube, out of which most of the air or… …   English World dictionary

  • vacuum — ► NOUN (pl. vacuums or vacua) 1) a space entirely devoid of matter. 2) a space from which the air has been completely or partly removed. 3) a gap left by the loss or departure of someone or something important. 4) (pl. vacuums) informal a vacuum… …   English terms dictionary

  • vacuum — cleaner Vac u*um clean er A machine for cleaning carpets, tapestry, upholstered work, etc., by suction; sometimes called a {vacuum}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Vacuum — Allgemeine Informationen Genre(s) Electronica, Pop, Synthie Pop Gründung 1996 Website …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Vacŭum — (lat.), der leere Raum (vgl. Vakuum) …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Vacuum — Vacuum, lat., die Leere, der leere Raum; Vacuität, Leere, Nichtigkeit …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • vacuum — index blank (emptiness), need (deprivation) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

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