vacuum frame

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noun

printing a machine from which the air is extracted in order to obtain close contact between the surfaces of two materials, e.g. the film and plate during platemaking

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Words nearby vacuum frame

vacuum drying, vacuum energy, vacuum flask, vacuum fluctuation, vacuum forming, vacuum frame, vacuum gauge, vacuumize, vacuum-pack, vacuum-packed, vacuum pan

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How to use vacuum frame in a sentence

The media tend to frame situations like this as aberrations, but in this case, quite the opposite is the truth.
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But politicians abhor a rhetorical vacuum, and they have clamored to fill it.
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She is able to create coattails for down-ballot races and to change the narrative frame of politics.
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The woman had had two strokes and was generally in a dark frame of mind.
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But confirmation of that time frame has also been hard to come by.
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She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
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There was a slight shuddering movement of his whole frame—Bob was dead.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The scarlet calico canopy was again set up over the bed, and the woven cradle, on its red manzanita frame, stood near.
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Old Warrender retired to his study in a rather excited frame of mind, excusing himself on the ground of his age.
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William Penn, published in England his frame of government for the colony of Pennsylvania.
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