Meaning of "hover" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HOVER

Hoveren, variant of hoven, of obscure origin.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF HOVER

hover  [ˈhɒvə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOVER

Hover is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb hover in English.

WHAT DOES HOVER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hover

Hover may refer to: ▪ Hovering, the process by which an object is suspended by a physical force against gravitation, in a stable position without solid physical contact In transport ▪ Hover, nearly stationary Aviation in a helicopter ▪ 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 ▪ 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...

Definition of hover in the English dictionary

The first definition of hover in the dictionary is to remain suspended in one place. Other definition of hover is to remain in one place in the air by rapidly beating the wings. Hover is also to linger uncertainly in a nervous or solicitous way.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO HOVER

PRESENT

Present

I hover

you hover

he/she/it hovers

we hover

you hover

they hover

Present continuous

I am hovering

you are hovering

he/she/it is hovering

we are hovering

you are hovering

they are hovering

Present perfect

I have hovered

you have hovered

he/she/it has hovered

we have hovered

you have hovered

they have hovered

Present perfect continuous

I have been hovering

you have been hovering

he/she/it has been hovering

we have been hovering

you have been hovering

they have been hovering

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I hovered

you hovered

he/she/it hovered

we hovered

you hovered

they hovered

Past continuous

I was hovering

you were hovering

he/she/it was hovering

we were hovering

you were hovering

they were hovering

Past perfect

I had hovered

you had hovered

he/she/it had hovered

we had hovered

you had hovered

they had hovered

Past perfect continuous

I had been hovering

you had been hovering

he/she/it had been hovering

we had been hovering

you had been hovering

they had been hovering

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will hover

you will hover

he/she/it will hover

we will hover

you will hover

they will hover

Future continuous

I will be hovering

you will be hovering

he/she/it will be hovering

we will be hovering

you will be hovering

they will be hovering

Future perfect

I will have hovered

you will have hovered

he/she/it will have hovered

we will have hovered

you will have hovered

they will have hovered

Future perfect continuous

I will have been hovering

you will have been hovering

he/she/it will have been hovering

we will have been hovering

you will have been hovering

they will have been hovering

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would hover

you would hover

he/she/it would hover

we would hover

you would hover

they would hover

Conditional continuous

I would be hovering

you would be hovering

he/she/it would be hovering

we would be hovering

you would be hovering

they would be hovering

Conditional perfect

I would have hover

you would have hover

he/she/it would have hover

we would have hover

you would have hover

they would have hover

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been hovering

you would have been hovering

he/she/it would have been hovering

we would have been hovering

you would have been hovering

they would have been hovering

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you hover
we let´s hover
you hover

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to hover

Past participle

hovered

Present Participle

hovering

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «HOVER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hover» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of hover

alternate · dither · drift · falter · float · fluctuate · flutter · fly · hang · haver · linger · loiter · oscillate · poise · seesaw · swither · vacillate · waver

TRANSLATION OF HOVER

Find out the translation of hover to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of hover from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hover» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: > 盘旋
• Translator English - Spanish: flotar (en el aire)
• English: hover
• Translator English - Hindi: मंडराना
• Translator English - Arabic: تحوم
• Translator English - Russian: наведении
• Translator English - Portuguese: pairar
• Translator English - Bengali: বাতাসে ভাসিতে থাকা
• Translator English - French: planer
• Translator English - Malay: Hover
• Translator English - German: schweben
• Translator English - Japanese: 空中で静止する
• Translator English - Korean: > 공중에 떠 있다
• Translator English - Javanese: Hover
• Translator English - Vietnamese: bay liệng
• Translator English - Tamil: மிதவை
• Translator English - Marathi: फिरवा
• Translator English - Turkish: duraksamak
• Translator English - Italian: rimanere sospeso nell´aria
• Translator English - Polish: unosić
• Translator English - Ukrainian: наведенні
• Translator English - Romanian: hover
• Translator English - Greek: hover
• Translator English - Afrikaans: hover
• Translator English - Swedish: hover
• Translator English - Norwegian: hover

8 QUOTES WITH «HOVER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hover.

1

William C. Bryant

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.

2

Paul Engle

Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.

3

Kurt Fuller

The Will Smith that you see in movies is exactly the same as Will Smith in real life. Except for when he plays a superhero, because the real Will Smith can't fly. He can only hover.

4

Richard Jefferies

A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind. He will, and does, hover in the still, soft atmosphere of early autumn, when the gossamer falls in showers, coming straight down as if it were raining silk.

5

Louie Schwartzberg

When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.

6

Darby Stanchfield

I'm like one of the tallest ones on 'Scandal.' If I'm wearing my four-inch Abby Whelan high heels, I hover over everybody. I literally have a lower pair of high heels that I wear when I do one of the scenes with the guys.

7

Laura Wasser

The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.

8

Isaac Watts

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOVER»

Discover the use of hover in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hover and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Creating Healing Relationships: Professional Standards for ...

Creating Healing Relationships is the first book to seriously address the need for professional standards in the rapidly growing field of energy healing and to demonstrate how the ethic of human caring can be translated into professional ...

Dorothea Hover-Kramer, 2011

Hover

On Earth, seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander was taught to never peek, but if she hopes to survive life on her new planet, Loge, her eyes must never shut.

Melissa West, 2013

Healing Touch: Guide Book for Practitioners

This new edition offers the care-giver a basic introduction to Healing Touch, including detailed information on the Healing Touch Certification program and suggestions on how to apply Healing Touch across various health care settings and ...

Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Janet Mentgen, 2002

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Jacob J. Sanford, 2007

Hover and Wind-tunnel Testing of Shrouded Rotors for ...

Measurements were also made of the wake velocity profiles and the shroud surface pressure distributions.

Jason L. Pereira, 2008

The Biology of Hover Wasps

PhD Thesis, University College London, London Bridge C, Field J (2007) Queuing for dominance: gerontocracy and queue-jumping in the hover wasp Liostenogasterflavolineata. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 61:1253—1259 Cant MA, Field JP (2001) ...

Stefano Turillazzi, 2013

Where angels fear to hover: between the gothic disease and ...

An alternative offered by this book, resulting from a thorough examination of the presence of Gothic and Horror conventions in contemporary culture, calls for an introduction of two new classificatory units, referred to in the book as ...

Katarzyna Ancuta, 2005

Stereopsis Cueing Effects on Hover-in-Turbulence Performance ...

The efficacy of stereopsis cueing in pictorial displays was assessed in a real-time piloted simulation of a rotorcraft precision "hover-in-turbulence" task. Seven pilots endeavored to maintain a hover by visually aligning a set of inner and outer ...

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The Commandos: The Inside Story of America's Secret Soldiers

Next came the hover coupler check. Keeping a helicopter hovering stationary in flight over a target was one of the most difficult chores for the crew. To help control the helicopter in this delicate maneuver, the pilot could grip a special hover trim ...

Douglas C. Waller, 1994

Texas Bug Book: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

INSIGHT: House flies don't bite as horse flies do. Fly larva maggots are important in helping to dispose of organic waste. HOVER BEE — see Hover Fly HOVER FLY COMMON NAMES: Flower Fly, Hover Bee, Hover Fly, Sweat Bee, Sweat Fly,  ...

Howard Garrett, C. Malcolm Beck, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOVER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hover is used in the context of the following news items.

Gold prices hover above multi-months low amid looming US rate hike

Gold moved lower in Asian trading hours on Thursday as Yellen's hawkish statement and positive US data pushed the greenback higher at the ... «The Bullion Desk, Jul 15»

Palm oil to hover above 2,182 ringgit | The Edge Markets

SINGAPORE (July 16): Palm oil seems to have found support at 2,182 ringgit per tonne, and may hover around this level or rebound towards ... «The Edge Markets, Jul 15»

Natural gas trading outlook: futures hover near 1-month high on …

Natural gas was little changed in early European trade on Thursday, holding near Tuesday's 1-month high, as weather forecasts saw no ... «Binary Tribune, Jul 15»

Microsoft awarded patent for "hover sensitive" 3D Touch

In the not so distant past, Microsoft had plans for a McLaren smartphone with 3-D touch that would let you hover over your screen to perform ... «WinBeta, Jul 15»

Fear as military aircrafts hover over Khor Romula

Residents of Khor Romula in Juba on Monday evening feared that danger might return to their area as two military aircrafts were seen flying ... «Radio Tamazuj, Jul 15»

HOVER SERVICES SUSPENDED DUE TO ISSUE WITH …

hoversuspendedjuly. UPDATED: Hovertravel services between Ryde and Southsea have been suspended this morning (Tuesday) due to a ... «Island Echo, Jul 15»

Temperatures hover close to normal across Haryana, Punjab

After receiving widespread rains during the past few days, maximum temperatures today hovered close to normal across Haryana and Punjab. «Business Standard, Jul 15»

Pre-market: Nifty seen opening flat; may hover around 8450

NEW DELHI: The 50-share Nifty index is expected to open higher on Tuesday following positive trend seen in other Asian markets. Tracking the ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»

Froma Harrop: Why do helicopter parents hover so?

Helicopter parents are famous for micromanaging their children's affairs. There are two kinds. One kind indulges children to the point of near ... «The Providence Journal, Jul 15»

Froma Harrop: Helicopter parents: Why do they hover so?

One kind indulges children to the point of near imbecility. No demands are ever placed, no chores required. The parents see their role as ... «The Commercial Dispatch, Jul 15»