Crossword clues for vacancies
vacancies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vacancy \Va"can*cy\, n.; pl. Vacancies. [Cf. F. vacance.]
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The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.
All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous.
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That which is vacant. Specifically:
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Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
How is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy?
--Shak. An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts.
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Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.
Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities.
--Milton.No interim, not a minute's vacancy.
--Shak.Those little vacancies from toil are sweet.
--Dryden. A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.
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Wiktionary
n. (plural of vacancy English)
Usage examples of "vacancies".
The crystalline structure beneath it had no fractures, no vacancies, no dislocations, no planar defects or interstitials-none of those deviations from uniform crystalline structure that in the Presences served the function served by neurons and neuro-transmitters in fleshly creatures.
And what were the minds of the Presences after all but vast arrays of dislocations, molecular vacancies, self-reproducing line, and planar defects generating energy along infinitesimal fault lines, molecular neurons rather than biological ones, atoms of chromium instead of dopamine, with vacancies in the infinite grid serving as receptor cells.
vacancies can be responsible for the color in some precious stones as, for example, in a diamond where large numbers of vacancies produce a yellow color.
If one takes cheap, less than perfect, diamonds and subjects them to high energy radiation, some carbon atoms are knocked out of position, leaving vacancies, and creating a "yellow diamond," which is considered attractive and can be sold as jewelry.
If you have successfully initiated the countdown, you say, ‘No vacancies for thirty hours.
Then he stood there by her on the gallows, and for a moment looked down upon the mass of upturned faces at his feet, then out over the solid pavement of heads that stretched away on every side occupying the vacancies far and near, and then began to tell the story of the case.
If you're trying to put a noose round Bret's neck, you'll need something a damn sight more reliable than Lange's gossip or news about vacancies in Washington.
There were thirty names on the list and there were twelve vacancies within the Marine Corps for corporals.
As additional vacancies occurred, authority would be granted to promote individuals on the list numbers 13 through 30.