Hover

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
2. fiil Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).

   “Castration has a ſtrange effect: it emaſculates both man, beaſt, and bird, and brings them to a near reſemblance of the other ſex. […] Capons have ſmall combs and gills, and look pallid about the head, like pullets; they alſo vvalk vvithout any parade, and hover chickens like hens.”

3. fiil Of a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air.

   “O'er the deer Corps ſomtimes her vvings ſhe [an eagle] hovers, / Somtimes the dead breſt vvith her breſt ſhe covers, […]”

4. fiil To remain stationary or float in the air.

   “The hummingbird hovered by the plant.”

5. fiil Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.

   “His pen hovered above the paper.”

6. fiil To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.

   “Filling in the voting form, I hovered between Labour and Liberal Democrat.”

7. fiil 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.”

8. fiil To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
9. isim An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
10. isim A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
11. isim An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
12. isim A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.

    “Oyſters grevv vpon boughs of trees (an Indian miracle) vvhich vvere caſt in [the pond] thither, to ſerue as a houer for the fiſh.”

13. özel isim A surname.