Hoved vs Hover - What's the difference?
hoved | hover |
(nonstandard)
* 2009, Liz Hunt, The Daily Telegraph, 18 Aug, "The Material Girl lives up to her name":
To float in the air.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To linger in one place.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
To waver, or be uncertain.
(computing) To place the cursor over a hyperlink or icon without clicking.
As verbs the difference between hoved and hover
is that hoved is (nonstandard) while hover is to float in the air.As a noun hover is
a cover; a shelter; a protection.hoved
English
Verb
(head)- So how the hearts of the paps must have leapt as Madonna plus children – and lover Jesus – hoved into view off the coast of Italy this week.
hover
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) hoveren (frequentative of hove).Verb
(en verb)Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
- The neighborhood, to our ears, seemed haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlor floor, and the thought of that detestable blind beggar hovering near at hand, and ready to return, there were moments when, as the saying goes, I jumped in my skin for terror.