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Hovering vs Hover - What's the difference?

hovering | hover |

As verbs the difference between hovering and hover

is that hovering is while hover is to float in the air.

As nouns the difference between hovering and hover

is that hovering is the act of one who hovers while hover is a cover; a shelter; a protection.

hovering

English

(Hoverboard)

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who hovers.
  • * (Henry James)
  • Their visitor was an issue - at least to the imagination, and they arrived finally, under provocation, at intensities of flutter in which they felt themselves so compromised by his hoverings that they could only consider with relief the fact of nobody's knowing.

    hover

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) hoveren (frequentative of hove).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To float in the air.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • To linger in one place.
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
  • 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.
  • To waver, or be uncertain.
  • (computing) To place the cursor over a hyperlink or icon without clicking.
  • Derived terms
    * * hoverboat * hoverbike * hovercar * hoverchair * hovercraft

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cover; a shelter; a protection.
  • (Carew)
    (Charles Kingsley)
    (Webster 1913) ----