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nounUnited States editor (1920-1993)
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nounUnited States feminist who was active in the women's suffrage movement (1819-1910)
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nounCanadian hockey player who holds the record for playing the most games (born 1928)
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nounUnited States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867)
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Definition that contains howe
- than A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that.
- bathroom a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet
- shower a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower
- shower take a shower; wash one's body in the shower
- bacon English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)
- nixon vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994)
- funk United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)
- sprinkle a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- foucault French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air; invented the Foucault pendulum and the gyroscope (1819-1868)
- cascade a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower