| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To waver, boggle, demur, falter or hesitate.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To balk, baulk or stop. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To dither, wobble or stagger. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To vacillate or teeter. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To wander, roam, rove or meander. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To heave or dangle. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To roll, switch, gyrate, turn or slew.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Present participle conjugation of the verb hover.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (hover) | 1. Be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action.[Wordnet]. 2. Move to and fro.[Wordnet]. 3. Hang in the air; fly or be suspended above.[Wordnet]. 4. Be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity.[Wordnet]. 5. Hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing.[Wordnet]. 6. 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.[Websters]. 7. To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: hovering, hovered, hovers, hoverer, hoverers, hoveringly and hoveredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being roving.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being erring or meandering. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being fluctuating or doddering. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being faltering, vacillating or wavering. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being fascinating or captivating. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being high or towering. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being flickering or blinking.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "HOVERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: HOVERING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Flapping the wings; hanging over or around; moving with short irregular flights.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Military | (DOD, NATO) A self-sustaining maneuver whereby a fixed, or nearly fixed, position is maintained relative to a spot on the surface of the Earth or underwater. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of to hover. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: hover
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Hover Car Racer | Hover Car Racer was the sports action story released by Matthew Reilly in 2004. Jason Chaser, along with his brother Bug, are the adopted children of an Australian couple who live in the Northern Territory of Australia. (references) | ||
| Republic IFT-X Hover Tank | The IFT-X, or Saber Class TX-130 Fighter Tank, is a fictional vehicle in the Star Wars Universe. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: HOVERING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hovering ceiling | Military | (DOD, NATO) The highest altitude at which the helicopter is capable of hovering in standard atmosphere. It is usually stated in two figures: hovering in ground effect and hovering out of ground effect. (references) | |
| Hovering craft | Transportation | A vehicle that can be supported by a continuously generated cushion of air dependent for its effectiveness on the proximity of the surface over which the vehicle operates. (Brit. Standard 4236, 67, n 1). Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: hover | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Hover Car Racer | 11 | Don Hover | 5 | |
| Great Wall Hover | 10 | Great Wall Hover | 10 | |
| Hover Bovver | 8 | Hover | 2 | |
| Hover Motorsports | 8 | Hover ad | 5 | |
| Hover ad | 5 | Hover Bovver | 8 | |
| Don Hover | 5 | Hover Car Racer | 11 | |
| Hover Round | 3 | Hover Motorsports | 8 | |
| Hover | 2 | Hover Round | 3 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
