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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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 reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964) [syn: Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Herbert Clark Hoover, President Hoover]
4: a kind of vacuum cleaner v
1: clean with a vacuum cleaner; "vacuum the carpets" [syn: vacuum, vacuum-clean, hoover]

Merriam Webster's

I. biographical name Herbert Clark 1874-1964 31st president of the United States (1929-33) II. biographical name J(ohn) Edgar 1895-1972 American criminologist; F.B.I. director (1924-72) III. geographical name city central Alabama population 62,742

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. propr. a vacuum cleaner (properly one made by the Hoover company). --v. (hoover) 1 tr. (also absol.) clean (a carpet etc.) with a vacuum cleaner. 2 (foll. by up) a tr. suck up with or as with a vacuum cleaner (hoovered up the crumbs). b absol. clean a room etc. with a vacuum cleaner (decided to hoover up before they arrived). Etymology: W. H. Hoover, Amer. manufacturer d. 1932

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hoovers, hoovering, hoovered) 1. A Hoover is a vacuum cleaner. (TRADEMARK) (BRIT) N-COUNT 2. If you hoover a room or a carpet, you clean it using a vacuum cleaner. (BRIT) She hoovered the study and the sitting-room. VERB: V n • hoovering I finished off the hoovering upstairs. N-UNCOUNT: also the N