hover
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
- 2.
(transitive)Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
- 3.
(obsolete, transitive)Of a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air.
- 4.
(intransitive)To remain stationary or float in the air.
The hummingbird hovered by the plant.
- 5.
(figuratively, intransitive)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.
The visitors were hovering at the door, seemingly unwilling to enter.
Some helicopter parents weren’t so much dropping off their kids as hovering over them until the event started.
Đồng nghĩa: wasp around
- 6.
(figuratively, intransitive)To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
Filling in the voting form, I hovered between Labour and Liberal Democrat.
- 7.
(intransitive)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.
- 8.
(intransitive)To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
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noun- 1.
An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
- 2.
A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
- 3.
(figuratively)An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
- 4.
(Southern England)(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.
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ine-pro The verb is derived from Middle English hoveren (to float in the air, hover; to stay), probably from hoven (hover; of a bird: to fly high in the air, soar) (which it displaced) + -er-. Hoven is probably derived from Old English *hōfian, from hōfon, the plural past indicative form of hebban (to lift, raise), from *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (to lift;