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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hover
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
above
▪ A clothes-line hangs between two high windows, hovering above like a tawdry hammock from the sky.
around
▪ Temperatures will hover around eight to ten degrees celsius, thats forty six to fifty fahrenheit with only a moderate breeze.
▪ True, synagogue membership and religious school enrollment both hover around 50 percent.
▪ Then wasps; a cloud of them hovered around my Virginia creeper where I suspected they had a nest.
▪ Apple stock continued to slip Thursday, hovering around 28 per share.
▪ Community satisfaction and attachment was found to be relatively low, hovering around 50 percent.
▪ The mercury hovered around ninety, and so did the humidity.
▪ Patrick hovered around the door for a few moments and then finally decided to brazen it out.
▪ However, since the early 1950s government spending for goods and services has hovered around 20 percent of the national output.
just
▪ The needle was hovering just over the red.
▪ Occasionally the chords flow together; a melody seems to be hovering just on the edge.
▪ But groups like Hilton and Sheraton were just hovering outside of the list, both with over 1,000 rooms in the United Kingdom.
▪ Often as not, our chairman just hovered quietly for a bit, then left.
▪ One Hunter was hovering just above the castle.
▪ A ground fog hovered just over the lawns of the neighborhood.
▪ The temperature hovered just above freezing, and a brisk wind turned the rain into slanting sheets of icy daggers.
over
▪ Rhoda took to table-tapping and seances and reported seeing the ghost of Wendy hovering over her bed at night.
▪ We hovered over to a fuel bladder at one end of the field to refuel.
▪ That was how she felt - as though those dear supporting figures of her childhood were once again hovering over her.
▪ The story ends at a funeral, hovered over by a surreal balloon, from which hangs a fancied female acrobat.
▪ Swarms of flies and mosquitoes hover over the marshes.
▪ In fact, the only bird of prey I ever saw hovering over the park was a kestrel.
▪ The weight hovered over her shoulders, ready to settle.
▪ Soon after, he checked out in Vegas, the suspicion of murder hovering over the coroner's report.
still
▪ The nurse was still hovering about the bed, patting the pillow, tucking in blankets and generally fussing over her patient.
▪ The average quoted turnover rate still hovers at 10 percent in spite of worker bonuses, free healthcare and rides to work.
▪ But as normality resumes, a strange myth still hovers around the popular uprising that overthrew Slobodan Milosevic.
▪ The Opel was still hovering at the kerbside, lights glaring, waiting to pounce.
▪ Then, as she watched him, still hovering indecisively, she felt an odd compassion stir her heart.
▪ A smile still hovering round her mouth, she glanced up and through the mirror.
■ NOUN
air
▪ Hovering close to the ground Let's go back to the situation where the model is hovering in calm air.
▪ I saw the helicopter hover in the air, and then it crashed into our guest house.
▪ A light rain hovers in the air.
background
▪ When they returned to the house Silas and Peter Bush walked from room to room with Lucy hovering in the background.
▪ Tutilo hovered in the background, keeping himself modestly apart while his betters conferred.
▪ Across the room Linda was repeating her apologies, Oliver hovering in the background.
▪ She felt twitchy about that vile Angel who hovered shadowy in the background, waiting to perform some dreadful mischief.
cloud
▪ At the edge of the plain a new dust cloud hovered.
▪ He had been staring up at the deep purple blanket with tiny freckles of stars and wisps of cloud hovering.
▪ Then wasps; a cloud of them hovered around my Virginia creeper where I suspected they had a nest.
▪ There was a great black cloud hovering over her head.
▪ It's like a dark cloud continually hovering over us.
edge
▪ One could dissolve and still exist ... I hovered on the edge of consciousness, semi-asleep, making nonsense.
▪ Occasionally the chords flow together; a melody seems to be hovering just on the edge.
▪ Inside the briefing room of the Royaume Uni we hovered on the edge of Dunkirk as usual.
▪ While Cookie hovers on the edge of death, Spoon is obliged to fill out an endless, baffling questionnaire.
▪ Balfour hovered on the edge of the plot.
▪ He was irritated, the chief inspector decided, by her obstinacy, and hovered on the edge of asking her again.
hand
▪ Norman's hand hovered over the padlock.
▪ Her hand hovered over the phone, then pulled away.
▪ His cheeks glistened with tears and his hand hovered over the head of the thing he had called his son.
helicopter
▪ The helicopters hovered overhead in formation.
▪ I saw the helicopter hover in the air, and then it crashed into our guest house.
▪ A giant helicopter was hovering overhead, its spotlight trained on the field below.
▪ Each night as they lay in bed, they could hear army helicopters hovering over the parish.
▪ With the helicopter hovering overhead, he drove for the peak of the leading wave, but then backed off.
▪ Small patrol helicopters hovered over the treetops beyond the barbed wire.
▪ He has been pictured in a Tarzan suit with a helicopter hovering over his head.
▪ Police helicopters hovered and riot police were posted around the square and nearby side streets.
percent
▪ Community satisfaction and attachment was found to be relatively low, hovering around 50 percent.
▪ True, synagogue membership and religious school enrollment both hover around 50 percent.
▪ However, since the early 1950s government spending for goods and services has hovered around 20 percent of the national output.
▪ Today, the rate hovers around 10 percent, the lowest level since the 1950s.
▪ The average quoted turnover rate still hovers at 10 percent in spite of worker bonuses, free healthcare and rides to work.
temperature
▪ Not as cool but not as far as Flagstaff, the mile-high city boasts temperatures that hover in the low 90s.
▪ The temperature hovered just above freezing, and a brisk wind turned the rain into slanting sheets of icy daggers.
▪ Chilly mornings stretched into hellish afternoons as temperatures hovered around 100 degrees.
■ VERB
seem
▪ Peter Lorre seemed almost to be hovering at Jack's elbow.
▪ Occasionally the chords flow together; a melody seems to be hovering just on the edge.
▪ Ever since Christmas, the thought of the amethyst brooch seemed to hover in his thoughts.
▪ Just at first he seemed able to hover on the up draft, like a dry leaf.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A clothes-line hangs between two high windows, hovering above like a tawdry hammock from the sky.
▪ But groups like Hilton and Sheraton were just hovering outside of the list, both with over 1,000 rooms in the United Kingdom.
▪ Community satisfaction and attachment was found to be relatively low, hovering around 50 percent.
▪ Perseus on his winged sandals hovered above them, looking, however, only at the shield.
▪ She wanders the stage, mike in hand like Betty Carter, often hovering over one of her accompanists, particularly Terrasson.
▪ True, synagogue membership and religious school enrollment both hover around 50 percent.
▪ With Watchbirds hovering everywhere, my confidence falters, my work loses momentum.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hover

Hover \Hov"er\, n. [Etymol. doubtful.] A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic]
--Carew.
--C. Kingsley.

Hover

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hover

c.1400, hoveren, frequentative of hoven "hover, tarry, linger;" see hove (1). Related: Hovered; hovering. As a noun from 1510s.

Wiktionary
hover

Etymology 1 vb. To float in the air. Etymology 2

n. A cover; a shelter; a protection.

WordNet
hover

  1. v. 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]

Wikipedia
Hover

Hovering is stationary flight, exhibited by bees, dragonflies, hummingbird hawk-moths, hummingbirds, helicopters, balloons, and kites. Hovering generally consumes large amounts of fuel when done by rockets, special airplanes or hummingbirds.

Hover may also refer to:

  • Levitation, the process by which an object is suspended by a physical force against gravitation, in a stable position without solid physical contact.
In transport
  • Helicopter flight controls#Hover, nearly stationary aviation in a helicopter
  • Hovercraft are crafts capable of traveling and being stationary over land, water, mud or ice
  • Hovertrains use magnetic levitation and linear motors
  • The Harrier jet and Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II jet can hover and fly
  • Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is turboprop aircraft that can hover, as a tiltrotor. There are over VTOL craft that can hover.
  • Great Wall Hover, an Sport utility vehicle produced by Great Wall Motors
  • Johan E. Høver, a Norwegian aircraft designer, most noted for the Høver M.F. 11
In computing
  • Hover (domain registrar)
  • Hover!, a computer game for Microsoft Windows
  • Mouse hover or mouseover, a gesture made with the pointer in computer user interfaces
Other uses
  • Hover Chamber Choir, established in 1992 in Armenia
Hover (domain registrar)

Hover is an Internet domain name registration service. Hover is a division of Tucows Incorporated, the third largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar in the world, only behind GoDaddy and eNom. Tucows is the largest publicly traded registrar and a technology company serving thousands of businesses and millions of Internet users worldwide since 1994. As of March 2010, Tucows is currently managing over 10 million domain names online.

Usage examples of "hover".

In response to his gesture, eyes now fully formed and ablaze, the two clouds of sooty vapor that had been hovering impatiently by his steel-booted feet ballooned to the size of black buffalo as they sped gleefully away from the dais to intercept the impudent, foolhardy human.

The baying was very faint now, and it ceased altogether as I approached the ancient grave I had once violated, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats which had been hovering curiously around it.

The very sight of the awesome Forest aborigines, with their fanged muzzles agape and their taloned hands hovering near their weapons, was enough to convert the dance-bone cheaters to instant integrity.

Not with the Adjutors hovering like hungry vultures over everything they did.

They hovered as best they could on their weak aerofoils, but the breeze caught them up and carried them away, and the night became still again.

They are like the colossal strides of approaching Fate, and this awfulness is twice raised to a higher power, first by a searching, syncopated phrase in the violins which hovers loweringly over them, and next by a succession of afrighted minor scales ascending crescendo and descending piano, the change in dynamics beginning abruptly as the crest of each terrifying wave is reached.

Where Xing, Thad and the Arachnos had been, there hovered a group of small things, each like a cross between a scimitar and a wasp.

As the helicopter hovered into view again a quarter of a mile ahead of them, Aragon cut the throttle and began to turn the craft toward the bank, but Sanders shook his head.

It arose above the vapor and hovered for a moment, the moons glinting on its fusilage.

Across from him, hovering over the little island that was home to the Idol of Asper, was the airship.

Out of the mists he thought he glimpsed Astasia, hovering like a Snow Spirit, dark eyes staring down at him in horror and loathing.

Beyond Kari and Astasia, the fuses gleamed brighter in the shadows, the waiting soldiers hovering nervously, waiting for the command to fire.

But he not only authoritatively assumes the truth of a future life: he speaks directly of it in many ways, often returns to it, continually hovers about it, reasons for it, exhorts upon it, makes most of his instructions hinge upon it, shows that it is a favorite subject of his communion.

He hovered there, and Ava prepared herself to be kissed by lifting her chin slightly.

And he could not fight his way to the captain, not with Basha hovering over the buttons.