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  Hover \Hov"er\, n. [Etymol. doubtful.]
     A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] --Carew. --C.
     Kingsley.
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  Hover \Hov"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hovered; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Hovering.] [OE. hoveren, and hoven, prob. orig., to abide,
     linger, and fr. AS. hof house; cf. OFries. hovia to receive
     into one's house. See Hovel.]
     1. To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain
        in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to
        be suspended in the air above something.
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              Great flights of birds are hovering about the
              bridge, and settling on it.           --Addison.
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              A hovering mist came swimming o'er his sight.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. To hang about; to move to and fro near a place,
        threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.
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              Agricola having sent his navy to hover on the coast.
                                                    --Milton.
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              Hovering o'er the paper with her quill. --Shak.
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  Hover \Hov"er\, n. [Etymol. doubtful.]
     A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] --Carew. --C.
     Kingsley.

  Hover \Hov"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hovered; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Hovering.] [OE. hoveren, and hoven, prob. orig., to abide,
     linger, and fr. AS. hof house; cf. OFries. hovia to receive
     into one's house. See Hovel.]
     1. To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain
        in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to
        be suspended in the air above something.
  
              Great flights of birds are hovering about the
              bridge, and settling on it.           --Addison.
  
              A hovering mist came swimming o'er his sight.
                                                    --Dryden.
  
     2. To hang about; to move to and fro near a place,
        threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.
  
              Agricola having sent his navy to hover on the coast.
                                                    --Milton.
  
              Hovering o'er the paper with her quill. --Shak.

  hover
       v 1: be undecided about something; waver between conflicting
            positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between
            accepting the new position and retirement" [syn: vibrate,
             vacillate, oscillate]
       2: move to and fro; "The shy student lingered in the corner"
          [syn: linger]
       3: hang in the air; fly or be suspended above
       4: be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity; "The
          guru claimed that he could levitate" [syn: levitate]
       5: hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing;
          "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" [syn:
          brood, loom, bulk large]

  hover
     Αγγλικά n.
     αιωρούμαι
     Αγγλικά vb.
     αιωρούμαι

  hover
     Norwegian Bokmål alt.
     (inflection of nb hov  indef p)
     Norwegian Bokmål n.
     (inflection of nb hov  indef p)
     Scots vb.
     1 to #English
     2 to pause (gloss: in hesitation)

  Hover
     n.
     (surname: en).

  hover
     n.
     1 An act#Noun, or the state#Noun, of remain#Verb stationary#Adjective
  in the air#Noun or some other place#Noun.
     2 A flock#Noun of bird#Noun flutter#Verb in the air in one place.
     3 (lb en figuratively) An act, or the state, of being
  suspended#Adjective; a suspension.
     4 (lb en chiefly Southern England) A cover#Noun; a protection; a
  shelter#Noun; specifically, an overhanging#Verb bank#Noun or stone#Noun
  under which fish#Noun can shelter#Verb; also, a shelter for hen#Noun
  brood#Verb their egg#Noun.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive)
     2 # To keep#Verb (something, such as an aircraft) in a
  stationary#Adjective state#Noun in the air#Noun.
     3 # Of a bird#Noun: to shelter#Verb (chick#Noun) under its body#Noun
  and wing#Noun; (lb en by extension) of a thing: to cover#Verb or
  surround#Verb (something).
     4 # (lb en obsolete) Of a bird or insect: to flap#Verb (its wings) so
  it can remain#Verb stationary in the air.
     5 (lb en intransitive)
     6 # To remain stationary or float#Verb in the air.
     7 # (lb en figuratively)
     8 ## ''Sometimes followed by'' '''over#Preposition''': to hang around
  or linger in a place#Noun, especially in an uncertain manner#Noun.
     9 ##: (synonyms en wasp around)
     10 ##: (ux en His pen '''hovered''' above the paper.)
     11 ##: (ux en The strange man '''hovered''' outside the gents’
  toilet.)
     12 ##: (ux en The visitors were '''hovering''' at the door, seemingly
  unwilling to enter.)
     13 ##: (ux en Some helicopter parents weren’t so much dropping off
  their kids as '''hovering''' over them until the event started.)
     14 ##* {RQ:Marston Antonio and
  Mellida|act=IV|sig=F4|page=52|passage=Alas, this that you ſee, is not
  ''Antonio'', / His ſpirit '''houers''' in ''Piero''’s Court, / Hurling
  about his agill faculties, / To apprehend the ſight of ''Mellida'':
  (...)}
     15 ##* (RQ:Thomson Works volume=II title=Ode section=stanza III
  page=220 passage=Oh! if thou '''hover'ſt''' round my vvalk, / VVhile,
  under ev'ry vvell-knovvn tree, / I to thy fancy'd ſhadovv talk, / And
  every tear is full of thee.)
     16 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Martin Luther|authorlink=Martin
  Luther|chapter=Of the Last Day of Judgment|translator=Henry
  Bell|editor=Joseph Kerby|title=The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin
  Luther, (the Great Reformer), which He Held with Various Learned Men at
  His Table, &c. on the Important Doctrines of Religion;(nb...:
  Containing Histories, Prophecies, Directions, Instructions, &c.
  Collected First Together by Dr. Antonius Lauterbach, and afterwards
  Disposed into Certain Common-places by John Aurifaber, D.D. Translated
  from the High German into the English Tongue, by Captain Henry Bell. To
  which is Prefixed, the Life and Character of Dr. Martin Luther: By John
  Gottlieb Burckhardt, D.D. Minister of the German Lutheran Congregation
  at the Savoy, in London. A New Edition. Revised and Corrected by Joseph
  Kerby, V.D.M. With Short Notes after each
  Chapter.)|edition=new|location=Lewes, East Sussex|publisher=Sussex
  Press,(nb...: Lewes: Printed and sold by) John Baxter; London: Baldwin,
  Craddock, and Joy,(nb...: Paternoster Row; H. Mozley, Derby; and all
  booksellers.)|year=1818|page=408|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=nF8UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA408|oclc=13569573|passage=[T]he
  fat swimmeth above, and the best thereof '''hovereth''' always
  uppermost; but the unclean matter, or the dregs is left at the bottom
  like a dead carcase and worthless thing. Even so likewise, God will deal
  at the day of judgment, therewith he will separate all things through
  fire, will separate the righteous from the ungodly, (...)}
     17 ##* {RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia|volume=III|chapter=Epilogue to
  Part the Second|pages=288–289|pageref=288|passage=But often, when he
  felt the harshness of experience creep over him— (...) the image of that
  fair child, (...) '''hovered''' over him; and the very air grew warmer,
  as if with a living breath.}
     18 ##* (RQ:Eliot Romola volume=II chapter=Romola in Her Place
  page=275 passage=Pestilence was '''hovering''' in the track of famine.)
     19 ##* (RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island chapter=The Sea Chest page=28
  passage=The neighbourhood, to our ears, seemed haunted by approaching
  footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlour
  floor, and the thought of that detestable blind beggar '''hovering'''
  near at hand, and ready to return, there were moments when, as the
  saying goes, I jumped in my skin for terror.)
     20 ##* (quote-journal en date=2023 February 8 author=Sir Michael
  Holden title=Comment: Boom or bust: time to decide journal=RAIL
  issue=976 page=3 text="Overall satisfaction with rail
  journey", as measured fortnightly by Transport Focus, has
  maintained a broadly flat line at around 85% across the last four months
  of travel disruption, while "satisfaction with
  punctuality/reliabilty" is '''hovering''' around 75%.)
     21 ## To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver#Verb.
     22 ##: (ux en Filling in the voting form, I '''hovered''' between
  Labour and Liberal Democrat.)
     23 ##* (RQ:Spenser Ireland year=1809 page=134 passage=And the reason
  why the land-lord will no longer covenant with him [the husbandman], is,
  for that he dayly looketh after change and alteration, and
  '''hovereth''' in expectation of new worlds.)
     24 ##* {RQ:Spectator|author=Addison|issue=441|date=26 July
  1712|page=175|passage=When the soul is '''hovering''' in the last
  moments of its separation, (...) what can support her under such
  tremblings of thought, such fear, such anxiety, such apprehensions, but
  the casting of all her cares upon Him who first gave her being, who has
  conducted her through one stage of it, and will be always with her in
  her progress through eternity?}
     25 ##* (RQ:Black Phaeton volume=I chapter=Prinz Eugen, der edle
  Ritter page=45 passage=Arthur Ashburton was rather cold and distant
  towards her, and was obviously in a bad temper. He even '''hovered''' on
  the verge of rudeness towards both herself and the Lieutenant.)
     26 # (lb en computing) ''Chiefly followed by'' '''over''': to
  use#Verb a mouse#Noun or other device to place#Verb a cursor#Noun over
  something on a screen#Noun such as a hyperlink#Noun or icon without
  clicking, so as to produce#Verb a result#Noun (such as the appearance of
  a tooltip).
     27 # (lb en nautical) To travel#Verb in a hovercraft as it move#Verb
  above a water#Noun surface#Noun.

  Hover
     n.
     (surname: en).

  hover
     Norwegian Bokmål alt.
     (inflection of nb hov  indef p)
     Norwegian Bokmål n.
     (inflection of nb hov  indef p)

  Hover
     n.
     (surname: en).

  hover
     Norwegian Bokmål alt.
     (inflection of nb hov  indef p)
     Norwegian Bokmål n.
     (inflection of nb hov  indef p)

  Hover
     n.
     (surname: en).

  hover
     Englanti vb.
     1 leijua, leijailla
     2 norkoilla (paikassa)
     3 epäröidä (vaihtoehtojen välillä)
     4 (tietotekniikka: k=en) pitää osoitinta hyperlinkin tai muun
  elementin päällä napsauttamatta, osoittaa

  hover
     Engelska vb.
     sväva, kretsa

  Hover /hˈɒvə/
  حم

  hover //ˈhɒvə// //ˈhʌvə// //ˈhʌvɚ// 
  1. колебая се
  to be indecisive or uncertain
  2. нося се, рея се
  to remain stationary or float in the air

  hover /hˈɒvə/
  vznášet se

  hover /hˈɒvə/ 
  hofran 

  hover /hˈɒvə/ 
  schwanken 
   see: hovering, hovered
  

  hover /hˈɒvə/ 
  schweben 
        "hover between life and death"  - zwischen Leben und Tod schweben
   see: hovering, hovered, hovers, hovered
  

  hover /hˈɒvə/
  
  ζυγιάζομαι στον αέρα, αιωρούμαι

  hover //ˈhɒvə// //ˈhʌvə// //ˈhʌvɚ// 
  1. leijuminen, leijunta
  act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place
  2. leijuva lintuparvi, paikallaan pysyvä lintuparvi
  flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place
  3. kieleke
  overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter

  hover //ˈhɒvə// //ˈhʌvə// //ˈhʌvɚ// 
  1. kätkeä siipiensä alle, suojella siivillään
  of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings
  2. epäröidä, häilyä, olla kahden vaiheilla
  to be indecisive or uncertain
  3. norkoilla
  to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner
  4. leijuttaa
  to keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air
  5. leijua, leijailla, lekutella, lekuttaa
  to remain stationary or float in the air
  6. kulkea ilmatyynyaluksella
  to travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface
  7. kohdistaa, osoittaa
  to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over (something on a screen) without clicking, so as to produce a result

  hover /hɔvər/
  planer

  hover /hˈɒvə/ 
  1. हवा में एक ही जगह चक्कर काटना
        "गिध्द हवा में घंटों 'hover'रहते हैं."

  hover /hˈɒvə/
  kružiti, lebdjeti, obigravati

  hover //ˈhɒvə// //ˈhʌvə// //ˈhʌvɚ// 
  layang
  to remain stationary or float in the air

  hover //ˈhɒvə// //ˈhʌvə// //ˈhʌvɚ// 
  揉み合う
  to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner

  hover /hɔvər/
  zweven

  hover //ˈhɒvə// //ˈhʌvə// //ˈhʌvɚ// 
  oversveve
  to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over (something on a screen) without clicking, so as to produce a result

  hover /ˈhɒvə/ 
   1.  [o ptaku, owadzie]  unosić się
   2.  krążyć
   3.  wahać się

  hover /hɔvər/
  adejar, esvoaçar, librar-se, pairar

  hover //ˈhɒvə// //ˈhʌvə// //ˈhʌvɚ// 
  sväva
  to remain stationary or float in the air

  hover /hˈɒvə/
  1. fazla hareket etmeden üzerinde ve etrafında uçmak
  2. etrafında dolaşıp durmak
  3. tereddüt etmek, sallanıp durmak
  4. havada durabilmek için hareket ettirmek (kanat)
  5. etrafında dolaşıp durma. hoveringly  tereddüt ederek.

  
/ˈhəvɝ/

  114 Moby Thesaurus words for "hover":
     aeroplane, airlift, airplane, approach, around, ascend, aspire,
     await, back down, balance, balloon, be airborne, be imminent,
     be in store, become airborne, brew, clasp, claw skyward, cling to,
     come on, confront, cruise, dance, debate, deliberate, demur,
     draw near, draw nigh, draw on, drift, face, falter, fear, ferry,
     flicker, flit, flitter, float, flutter, fly, fly aloft,
     follow close upon, forthcome, gain altitude, gather, glide,
     go with, hang, hang about, hang around, hang back, hang over,
     hem and haw, hesitate, hop, hover over, huddle, hug, hug the shore,
     hum and haw, hydroplane, impend, jet, jib, keep close to, kite,
     leave the ground, levitate, lie by, lie over, linger, loiter, loom,
     lower, march with, menace, navigate, near, overhang, pause, plane,
     poise, ponder, pull back, retreat, rise, sail, sailplane, scruple,
     seaplane, shilly-shally, shy, soar, spire, stand by, stay inshore,
     stay near, stick at, stickle, stop to consider, straddle the fence,
     strain at, tailgate, take off, take the air, take wing,
     think twice about, threaten, volplane, wait, wing, withdraw, yield,
     zoom
  
  

  v. 盘旋,翱翔,徘徊;

     vi. 盘旋,翱翔,徘徊
     vt. 孵
     n. 翱翔