noun
definition
The act of hovering
verb
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To float in the air.
example
The hummingbird hovered by the plant.
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To linger or hang in one place, especially in an uncertain manner.
example
His pen hovered above the paper.
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To waver, or be uncertain.
example
Filling in the voting form, I hovered between Labour and Liberal Democrat.
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To place the cursor over a hyperlink or icon without clicking.
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A tooltip appears when you hover over this link.
Examples of hover in a Sentence
This time the brows lowered to hover over brooding eyes.
Just hover over the image if you can't figure it out on your own.
Turn around and climb the next wall (hover over).
This allows them to hover in place, maneuver in tight spaces, and move stably at much lower speeds.
A rugby style conversion is good or perhaps just hover your foot over as it crashes down inches from its puny body.
They can flap their wings between 15-80 times per second, enabling them to not only fly backwards but to hover and maneuver with incredible precision.
Bend your knees 90 degrees and let your feet hover a few inches off the floor.
Mii, you can hover the hand over the Mii and hit the A and B buttons to pick it up.
You can start your post off with "RT @username" and then pasting the post itself, or simply click on the retweet link that pops up when you hover your mouse over the tweet.
Cylinder lawn mowers, rotary lawn mowers and hover lawn mowers covered in both the gasoline and electric varieties.
Users with mouses can hover the pointer over an image to read the text description.
Built-in manual scorers and puck collectors Float on air system allows hover pucks to travel at great speed.
Removing a picture To remove a picture just hover over it with the mouse and click the red cross in the top right corner.
Forest Lodge Phinda Private Game Reserve 16 stilted glass chalets hover between the forest floor below and towering torchwood trees above.
As you hover the mouse over a word, a small pop-up will tell you its equivalent in the selected language.
Hover your mouse over a single chuzzle for an extended period of time and it will get annoyed.
When it comes time to act as a transport, you'll need to enter hover mode so that you can rise and fall in a perfectly vertical fashion.
He is a fox with dual tails and this gives him the ability to hover in the hair for a short time.
Select both objects Specify rollover settings To test the behavior of the rollover button, hover your mouse over the Preview window.
Super WHY Flyers hover a few inches above the ground or floor, and have touch-activated lights and sounds that mimic flying.
You can hover over the deck at your discretion and select the three cards that stand out to you.
Hover over your category and you'll find each one spilt into different sections allowing you to drill down further to browse only dress shoes, only athletic shoes, and so on.
Price points do vary, but the majority of shoes hover around the $90 mark and move up from there.
Total costs of health care reform would hover around what America spent on the Iraq War up through 2010.
Although the exchange rates with Europe hover at the reasonable rate, the high quality found in lingerie design means the prices might still be more than you can justify.
Locate the Friends section and hover your cursor over it.
As you hover the mouse over the upper right corner of the update, a drop down menu called "HIDE" appears.
Once those plants grow, they'll be available for harvesting when you hover your mouse over them (you simply click on the crop to harvest).
First, you can simply hover over the tweet and then click on the "retweet" button that appears.
To reply on the public timeline, simply hover your mouse over the tweet you're replying to and click on "reply."
You have control of all the page elements and even some control over interactions such as "hover" or "visited" links.
The souls sensed their Keeper and rose from the floor of the deep lake to hover around him like suspended, tiny green lanterns.
This adjustment causes the boomerang to rise and hover much closer to you.
Fusiliers hover in shoals just off the reef, and butterfly fish flit between the corals.
This family of moths have long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and can hover over flowers to feed.
Letting your mouse hover over each image should cause a caption to appear.
Sometimes the spirits were summoned to appear as did the phantoms of the Greek heroes to Odysseus; sometimes they were called to enter a crystal (see Crystal-Gazing); sometimes they are merely asked to declare the future or communicate by moving external objects without taking a visible form; thus among the Karens at the close of the burial ceremonies the ghost of the dead man, which is said to hover round till the rites are completed, is believed to make a ring swing round and snap the string from which it hangs.
In today's world, when students tote guns to school and terrorist threats hover about like wasps ready to sting, campus web cams also provide safety features.
Since temperatures usually hover in the 80s, you'll find that almost every cruise to the Bahamas is a "fun in the sun" vacation.
At Guitartabs.cc, the fingering of each chord appears when you hover over the chord.
You can hover over short distances, spray water in any direction and even do a quick spin to spray 360 degrees.
Knees should be bent at about a 90-degree angle and your feet hover a few inches off the floor.
How microlight aircraft can hover silently, in tight formation, on windy nights was not explained.
Whilst engaged on operational tasks the plane cannot hover like a helicopter, it requires airspeed of about 50 mph to remain airborne.
The P* will complete the check, return to a 3-foot hover, and announce that the check is completed.
The dual moons seemed to hover somewhere in the middle of the air of a massive chasm, just like the dozen or so hulking spaceships, whose dark grey skins reflected like skins of massive grey whales in the moonlight.
In choosing fish, select ones that hold their fins erect, and avoid those with split fins, hold their fins tight against their bodies, hover at the bottom of the tank or hide in the corners.
This is done about midsummer, when by the aid of torches and long poles many thousands of the young birds are slaughtered, while their parents in alarm and rage hover over the destroyers' heads, uttering harsh and deafening cries.
That the transmigration theory, which makes the spirit of the departed hover about for a time in quest of a new corporeal abode, would naturally lend itself to superstitious notions of this kind can scarcely be doubted.
Just as the emperor is kami, and provincial officers of rank, so also mountains, rivers, the sea, thunder, winds, and even animals like the tiger, wolf or fox, are all kami.7 The spirits of the dead also become kami, of varying character and position; some reside in the temples built in their honour; some hover near their tombs; but they are constantly active, mingling in the vast multitude of agencies which makes every event in the universe, in the language of Motowori (1730-1801), the act of the Kami.