0 present participle of hover
1 to stay in one place in the air, usually by moving the wings quickly:
A hawk hovered in the sky, waiting to swoop down on its prey.
I heard the noise of a helicopter hovering overhead.
I could sense him behind me, hovering and building up the courage to ask me a question.
Inflation is hovering at three percent.
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Hourly mean of hovering duration was negatively correlated with hourly nectar secretion rate.
It was observed hovering in front of pistillate flowers on many occasions, but seldom landing.
The slumbering lowered head half rises up to tell us that an interesting image is hovering before him.
The voice, leaping and hovering in its highest range, mostly avoids the tonic.
The split ego is again visually evident as we see the narrating alter ego hovering over what he and his wife experienced ten years ago.
They ravaged the area, and have left white bones of the dead strewn everywhere with their souls hovering about.
He groans and at the same instant folds both his arms as if trying to seize hold of the angel hovering above him.
Moreover, separating attitude control from hovering control is effective for optimizing the controller, because control precision depends on attitude control precision.
