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1: Czech dramatist and statesman whose plays opposed totalitarianism and who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and president of the Czech Republic since 1993 (born in 1936) [syn:...

{vacuum}

1: the absence of matter [syn: {vacuum}] 2: total absence of matter [syn: {vacuousness}] 3: a region empty of matter [syn: {vacuum}] 4: total lack of meaning or ideas [syn: {inanity}, {senselessness},...

1: formed into or containing one or more vacuoles or small membrane-bound cavities within a cell [syn: {vacuolated}]

1: formed into or containing one or more vacuoles or small membrane-bound cavities within a cell [syn: {vacuolate}]

1: the state of having become filled with vacuoles [syn: {vacuolization}, {vacuolisation}]

1: a tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell

1: the state of having become filled with vacuoles [syn: {vacuolization}, {vacuolation}]

1: the state of having become filled with vacuoles [syn: {vacuolisation}, {vacuolation}]

1: complacently or inanely foolish [syn: {asinine}, {fatuous}, {inane}, {mindless}] 2: devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments" [syn: {empty}, {hollow}...

1: in a vacuous manner

1: total absence of matter [syn: {vacuity}]

1: the absence of matter [syn: {vacuity}] 2: an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum" [syn: {void}, {vacancy...

1: a method of induced abortion; prior to the 14th week of gestation the embryo and placenta are removed by applying suction to the dilated cervix [syn: {suction curettage}]

1: a bag into which dirt is sucked by a vacuum cleaner [syn: {dust bag}]

1: a bomb that uses a fuel-air explosive; "a thermobaric bomb can create overpressures equal to an atomic bomb" [syn: {thermobaric bomb}, {fuel-air bomb}, {volume-detonation bomb}, {aerosol bomb}]

1: flask with double walls separated by vacuum; used to maintain substances at high or low temperatures [syn: {vacuum flask}]

1: a chamber from which nearly all matter (especially air) has been removed

1: an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction [syn: {vacuum}]

1: flask with double walls separated by vacuum; used to maintain substances at high or low temperatures [syn: {vacuum bottle}]

1: a gauge for indicating negative atmospheric pressure [syn: {vacuum gauge}]

1: a gauge for indicating negative atmospheric pressure [syn: {vacuum gage}]

1: a pump that moves air in or out of something [syn: {air pump}]

1: electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope [syn: {tube}, {thermionic vacuum tube}, {thermionic tube}, {electron tube}, {thermionic valve...

1: clean with a vacuum cleaner; "vacuum the carpets" [syn: {vacuum}, {hoover}]

1: a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location [syn: {handbook}, {enchiridion}]

1: the capital and largest city of Liechtenstein [syn: {capital of Liechtenstein}]

1: wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer" [syn: {rootless}] 2: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to anothe...

1: travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him" [syn: {wandering}, {roving}]

1: of or relating to the vagus nerve [syn: {pneumogastric}]

1: an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.); "the vagaries of the weather"; "his wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of the stock market"; "he h...

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{vagus}

1: having freedom to move about; "vagile aquatic animals" [ant: {sessile}]

1: the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus; "the vagina receives the penis during coitus"; "the vagina is elastic...

{vagina}

1: of or relating to the vagina; "vaginal suppository"

1: a branch of the internal iliac that provides blood for the vagina and the base of the bladder and the rectum [syn: {arteria vaginalis}]

1: the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child [syn: {childbirth}, {childbearing}, {accouchement}]

1: discharge of secretions from the cervical glands of the vagina; normally clear or white

1: smear taken from the vaginal mucosa for cytological analysis

1: muscular contraction that causes the vagina to close; usually an anxiety reaction before coitus or pelvic examination

1: inflammation of the vagina (usually associated with candidiasis)

1: hernia projecting into the vagina [syn: {colpocele}]

1: Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954) [syn: {Ekman}]

1: the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood

1: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: {aimless}, {drifting}, {flo...

1: not clearly understood or expressed; "an obscure turn of phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard; "their descriptions of human behavior b...

1: in a vague way; "he looked vaguely familiar"; "he explained it somewhat mistily" [syn: {mistily}]

1: unclearness by virtue of being vague

1: a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera [syn: {vagus nerve}, {nervus vagus}, {pneumogastric}, {pneumogastr...

1: a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera [syn: {vagus}, {nervus vagus}, {pneumogastric}, {pneumogastric ner...

1: characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by vi...

1: feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride" [syn: {big}, {swelled}]

1: outspoken conceit [syn: {boastfulness}]

1: to no avail; "he looked for her in vain"; "the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution" [syn: {in vain}]

1: the second month of the Hindu calendar [syn: {Baisakh}]

1: worshipper of Vishnu

1: Hindu sect worshiping of Vishnu [syn: {Vaisnavism}] 2: worship of Vishnu one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon [syn: {Vaisnavism}, {Vishnuism}]