OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 10482

hover

/ˈhɒvə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cernerse • levitar • revoletear • revolotear
To remain stationary or float in the air.
The hummingbird hovered by the plant.
[T]hough you go to Theaters to see sport, Cupid may cache you ere you departe. The little god hovereth aboute you, and fanneth you with his wings to kindle fire: when you are set a…
rondar
Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
His pen hovered above the paper.
The strange man hovered outside the gents’ toilet.
dudar • hesitar • vacilar
To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
And the reason why the land-lord will no longer covenant with him [the husbandman], is, for that he dayly looketh after change and alteration, and hovereth in expectation of new wo…
Filling in the voting form, I hovered between Labour and Liberal Democrat.
colocar el puntero sobre
Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).
A tooltip appears when you hover over this link.