behoove | (v) be appropriate or necessary, Syn. behove |
hoover | (n) United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932), Syn. William Hoover, William Henry Hoover |
hoover | (n) United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972), Syn. J. Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover |
hoover | (n) 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. Herbert Clark Hoover, President Hoover, Herbert Hoover |
hoover | (n) a kind of vacuum cleaner |
hoover dam | (n) a large dam built in 1933 on the Colorado River in Nevada |
ungulate | (adj) having or resembling hoofs, Syn. hoofed, ungulated, hooved, Ant. unguiculate |
vacuum | (v) clean with a vacuum cleaner, Syn. vacuum-clean, hoover |
Behoovable | a. Supplying need; profitable; advantageous. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Behoove | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Behooved p. pr. & vb. n. Behooving. ] [ OE. bihoven, behoven, AS. beh&unr_;fian to have need of, fr. beh&unr_;f. See Behoof. ] To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally. [ 1913 Webster ] And thus it behooved Christ to suffer. Luke xxiv. 46. [ 1913 Webster ] [ Also written behove. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
Behoove | v. i. To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Behoove | n. Advantage; behoof. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] It shall not be to his behoove. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Behooveful | a. Advantageous; useful; profitable. [ Archaic ] -- Be*hoove"ful*ly, adv. -- Be*hoove"ful*ness, n. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
Hoove | n. [ Allied to heave, hove. ] A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating. |
Hoover | n. [ a trademark. ] a kind of vacuum cleaner. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
hoover | v. t. to clean with a vacuum cleaner. [ slang ] Syn. -- vacuum, vacuum-clean. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
Hoven | { } a. Affected with hoove; as, hooven, or hoven, cattle. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Hooven |