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Hung vs Hovered - What's the difference?

hung | hovered |

As verbs the difference between hung and hovered

is that hung is past tense of hang while hovered is past tense of hover.

As an adjective hung

is suspended by hanging.

hung

English

Verb

(head)
  • (hang)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Suspended by hanging.
  • Having hanging additions or appendages.
  • (legal) Of a jury, unable to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial.
  • Of a legislature, lacking a majority political party.
  • (computing, colloquial) Of a computer or similar device, receiving power but not functioning as desired; working very slowly or not at all. The condition is often corrected by rebooting the computer.
  • Having large genitals (often preceded by an adverb, e.g. well hung).
  • Men with big feet tend to be hung like a horse.
  • having a penis of a certain size
  • Synonyms

    * (endowed with a large penis) horse-hung, hung like a horse/hung like a donkey, well-hung, well-endowed

    Anagrams

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    hovered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hover)

  • 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) ----