Hover
['hɒvə] or ['hʌvɚ]
Definition
(verb.) hang in the air; fly or be suspended above.
(verb.) move to and fro; 'The shy student lingered in the corner'.
(verb.) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; 'He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement'.
Checked by Desmond--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A cover; a shelter; a protection.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Flutter.[2]. Hang about, hang over.
Edited by Georgina
Definition
v.i. to remain aloft flapping the wings: to wait in suspense: to move about near.—adv. Hov′eringly in a hovering manner.
Edited by Jimmy
Examples
- He was something agreeable to sit near, to hover round, to address and look at. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I will hover near, and direct the steel aright. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The artist seemed to hover like a creature on the wing, waiting to settle. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Fog is formed when vapor condenses near the surface of the earth, and when the drops are so small that they do not fall but hover in the air, the fog is said not to lift or not to clear. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, replied Estella, with a glance towards him, hover about a lighted candle. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It is not--happily for you, perhaps, and I may wish that I could say the same--it is not your character to hover around one flower. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Perhaps his troubled soul, set upon some violence, did hover for the moment between that violence and another. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He covered with his hand the upper part of his face, but did not conceal his mouth, where I saw hovering an expression I liked. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A four-oared galley hovering about in so unusual a way as to attract this notice was an ugly circumstance that I could not get rid of. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And all the while they two were hovering, hesitating round the flame of some invisible declaration. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The palish, gnarled trunks showed ghostly, and like old priests in the hovering distance, the fern rose magical and mysterious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Meanwhile the last moments of the performance seemed to gain an added brightness from the hovering threat of the curtain. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The clerks and servants cut him off by back-passages, and were found accidentally hovering in doorways and angles, that they might look upon him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Of Dora's being ready, and of Miss Lavinia's hovering about her, loth to lose the pretty toy that has given her so much pleasant occupation. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Here and there, some early lamps were seen to twinkle in the distant city; and in the eastern quarter of the sky the lurid light still hovered. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The traveller's eye hovered about these things for a time, and finally settled upon one noteworthy object up there. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But this agreeable holiday freedom with which Lydgate hovered about the flower of Middlemarch, could not continue indefinitely. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was of course impossible to accept a loan from Rosedale; but proximate possibilities hovered temptingly before her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I hovered for ever around the walls of its Castle, beneath its enshadowing thickets; my sole companions were my books and my loving thoughts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He had her then removed to a more commodious dwelling, and hovered about her, again and again to assure himself that she was safe. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Only a small, mechanical speck of consciousness hovered near him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Love looks and longs, and dares not; Passion hovers round, and is kept at bay; Truth and Devotion are scared. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Hunger and cold are her comrades; sadness hovers over, and solitude besets her round. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It hovers about Snagsby's door. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If the spirit of a sainted wooman hovers above us and looks down on the occasion, that, and your constant affection, will be my recompense. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is somewhere about five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and a balmy fragrance of warm tea hovers in Cook's Court. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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