hover
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology
Old English hoveren (frequentative of hoven).
[edit] Verb
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to hover (third-person singular simple present hovers, present participle hovering, simple past and past participle hovered)
- To float in the air.
- The hummingbird hovered by the plant.
- To linger in one place.
- The strange man hovered outside the gents.
- To waver, or be uncertain.
- This time, I hovered between Labour and Liberal Democrat.
- (computing) To place the cursor over a hyperlink or icon without clicking.
- A tooltip appears when you hover over this link.
[edit] Translations
to float in the air
to linger in one place
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to waver, or be uncertain
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to place the cursor over a hyperlink
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[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Scots
[edit] Verb
tae hover (third-person singular simple present hovers, present participle hoverin, simple past hovert, past participle hovert)