hover
IPA: hˈʌvɝ
noun
- An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
- A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
- (figuratively) An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
- (chiefly Southern England) 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.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive)
- To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
- Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
- (obsolete) Of a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air.
- (intransitive)
- To remain stationary or float in the air.
- (figuratively)
- Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
- To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
- (computing) 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).
- (nautical) To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
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Examples of "hover" in Sentences
- “By hover I meant someone who interferes,” she told him.
- Furthermore, Bruce Wayne has griped endlessly about the tactical flaws in hover-related activities.
- The bolding-on-hover is gone, and I added in a picture of some older designs of the site for comparison.
- · hoverClass (string) - Default: "hover" - Sets the class given to elements when they are currently hovered.
- 1 Some coins hover around the border between two grades and thus may just barely qualify for their respective assigned grades.
- Barring some weird event, we'll basically see John McCain hover at around 43% until the election and Obama moving between 44 and 49.
- I saw an anxious expression hover across her face for a second, to be quickly replaced by her ordinary society look of calm, studied suavity.
- The method we used was called "hover fishing", which means that we put a gob of eggs on the bottom with a 2 ounce sinker and just let the current move the bait across the bottom.
- I saw the golden coin hover on her breaths; I saw her eyes darken and brighter, and still speak no language but that of an unfathomable kindness; I saw the faultless face, and, through the robe, the lines of the faultless body.
- The Dative of Reference denotes the person _to whom a statement refers, of whom it is true_, or _to whom it is of interest; _ as, -- mihi ante oculōs versāris, _you hover before my eyes_ (lit. _hover before the eyes to me_); illī sevēritās amōrem nōn dēminuit, _in his case severity did not diminish love_ (lit. _to him severity did not diminish_); interclūdere inimīcīs commeātum, _to cut of the supplies of the enemy.
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