Hoven vs Hover - What's the difference?
hoven | hover |
Affected with the disease called hoove.
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 hoven and hover
is that hoven is while hover is to float in the air.As an adjective hoven
is affected with the disease called hoove.As a noun hover is
a cover; a shelter; a protection.hoven
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hoven, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Verb
(head)Etymology 2
Adjective
(-)- hoven cattle
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.