Found 3 items, similar to Hover.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: hover
berbayang-bayang, menggelepar, terkatung-katung
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: hover
hover
v 1: 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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Hover
Hover
\Hov"er\, n. [Etymol. doubtful.]
A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] --Carew. --C.
Kingsley.
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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.
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Great flights of birds are hovering about the
bridge, and settling on it. --Addison.
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A hovering mist came swimming o'er his sight.
--Dryden.
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2. To hang about; to move to and fro near a place,
threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.
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Agricola having sent his navy to hover on the coast.
--Milton.
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Hovering o'er the paper with her quill. --Shak.
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