Sekirov Dictionary

hover

UK /ˈhɒvə/US /ˈhʌvɚ/

verb 8
noun 4
forms 6

verb8

To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
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To remain stationary or float in the air.
- The hummingbird hovered by the plant.
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(figurative) Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
- His pen hovered above the paper.
- The strange man hovered outside the gents’ toilet.
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Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).
- A tooltip appears when you hover over this link.
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(figurative) To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
- Filling in the voting form, I hovered between Labour and Liberal Democrat.
Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
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(no longer used) Of a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air.
- O'er the deer Corps somtimes her vvings she [an eagle] hovers, / Somtimes the dead brest vvith her brest she covers, […] — 1608

noun4

An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
(figurative) An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
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A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.
- Oysters grevv vpon boughs of trees (an Indian miracle) vvhich vvere cast in [the pond] thither, to serue as a houer for the fish. — 1609

forms

hovered · hoveredst · hovering · hovereth · hovers · hoverest

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