Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hoover"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Hoover
n 1: United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners
(1849-1932) [syn: {Hoover}, {William Hoover}, {William
Henry Hoover}]
2: United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48
years (1895-1972) [syn: {Hoover}, {J. Edgar Hoover}, {John
Edgar Hoover}]
3: 31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock
market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was
defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)
[syn: {Hoover}, {Herbert Hoover}, {Herbert Clark Hoover},
{President Hoover}]
4: (trademark) a kind of vacuum cleaner [syn: {Hoover}]
v : clean with a vacuum cleaner [syn: {vacuum}, {vacuum-clean}]
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