vacuüm
See also: vacuum
English
Etymology
From Dutch vacuüm, from Latin vacuum, the substantive neuter of the adjective vacuus (“empty”); spelt with a diæresis added to specify the trisyllabic pronunciation [ˈvæ.kjuː.əm] (as opposed to the disyllabic * [ˈvæ.kjuːm]).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvækjuːəm/
Noun
vacuüm (plural vacua)
- (rare, chiefly Netherlands) Alternative spelling of vacuum
- 1996, T. A. M. Schoenmakers, Het Amerikaanse Neoconservatisme, 1968–1988, page 14
- Franklin Roosevelt was showing that democracy was capable of taking care of its own; the New Deal was filling the vacuüm of faith which we had inherited from the cynicism and complacency of the twenties, and from the breadlines of the early thirtees.
- 1996, T. A. M. Schoenmakers, Het Amerikaanse Neoconservatisme, 1968–1988, page 14
Quotations
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:vacuüm.
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvaː.ky.ʏm/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: va‧cu‧um
Noun
vacuüm n (plural vacuüms or vacua, diminutive vacuümpje n)
- A vacuum
- (figuratively) emptiness, meaninglessness
Derived terms
- vacuümbuis
- vacuümglas
- vacuümkamer
- vacuümlamp
- vacuümmeter
- vacuümpan
- vacuümpomp
- vacuümverpakking
- vacuümverpakt
Adjective
vacuüm (not comparable)
- In or constituting a vacuum.
- (figuratively) empty, meaningless
- 2007, Dimitri Verhulst, De helaasheid der dingen, Uitgeverij Contact, Amsterdam/Antwerpen, →ISBN, p. 192
- Er werden handen geschud en vacuüm getrokken zinnen gewisseld, en de vrienden van het volk verlieten het bejaardentehuis, op naar hun volgende opdracht, de cameraregistratie van een volksdans misschien.
- Hands were shaken and phrases with empty meaning were exchanged, and the people’s friends left the rest home, on to their next mission, maybe the photographic documentation of a folk dance.
- Er werden handen geschud en vacuüm getrokken zinnen gewisseld, en de vrienden van het volk verlieten het bejaardentehuis, op naar hun volgende opdracht, de cameraregistratie van een volksdans misschien.
- 2007, Dimitri Verhulst, De helaasheid der dingen, Uitgeverij Contact, Amsterdam/Antwerpen, →ISBN, p. 192
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