| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In a hovering manner.[Websters]
2. In a roving manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a balking manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a haunting manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In an oscillating manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In an erring manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a fluctuating manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a faltering manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a flickering or blinking manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adverbial inflection of the verb-based adjective hovering.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Base (Hovering) | 1. 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] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"HOVERINGLY" is a common misspelling or typo for: hooveringly. |
Date "HOVERINGLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: hover
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To flap the wings, as a fowl; to hang over or about, fluttering or flapping the wings, with short irregular flights. Great flights of birds are hovering about the bridge, and settling on it.. | 2: [Verb] To hang over or around, with irregular motions. A hovering mist came swimming o'er his sight.. | 3: [Verb] To stand in suspense or expectation.. | 4: [Verb] To wander about from place to place in the neighborhood; to move back and forth; as an army hovering on our borders; a ship hovering on our coast.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Aerospace | 1: 1. To remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air. 2. To remain suspended over a place or object. (references) | 2: To remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air. (references) | 3: To remain suspended over a place or object. (references) |
| Geography | Hover is geographically located in Denmark. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 55.733333 degrees North latitude and 9.516667 degrees East longitude. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] (computing) To place the cursor over a hyperlink without clicking a tooltip appears when you hover over this link. (references) | 2: [Verb] to float in the air The hummingbird hovered by the plant. (references) | 3: [Verb] to linger in one place The strange man hovered outside the gents. (references) | 4: [Verb] to waver, or be uncertain This time, I hovered between Labour and Liberal Democrat. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
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) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Specialty Expressions: hover
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hover check | Energy | Used to describe when a helicopter/ Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) aircraft requires a stabilized hover to conduct a performance/power check prior to hover taxi, air taxi, or takeoff. Altitude of the hover will vary based on the purpose of the check. (references) | |
| Hover taxi | Energy | Used to describe a helicopter/Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) aircraft movement conducted above the surface and in ground effect at airspeeds less than approximately 20 knots. The actual height may vary, and some helicopters may require hover taxi above 26 feet above ground level (AGL) to reduce ground effect turbulence or provide clearance for cargo slingloads. (references) | |
| Hover taxi | Technology | Used to describe a helicopter/VTOL aircraft movement conducted above the surface and in ground effect at airspeeds less than approximately 20 knots. The actual height may vary, and some helicopters may require hover taxi above 25 feet AGL to reduce ground effect turbulence or provide clearance for cargo slingloads. See AIR TAXI, HOVER CHECK. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
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). | ||||
