0 past simple and past participle of hover --
1 to stay in one place in the air, usually by moving the wings quickly: --
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Inflation is hovering at three percent.
I could sense him behind me, hovering and building up the courage to ask me a question.
I heard the noise of a helicopter hovering overhead.
A hawk hovered in the sky, waiting to swoop down on its prey.
They hovered briefly about 2 cm from a capitulum, then landed and immediately started moving quickly through the projecting anthers using their fore and mid legs.
But as technical training expanded after 1870, many young men with some academic grounding in the design of structures went into contracting instead, or hovered between professional and commercial status.
This discussion is eminently relevant to music education, which for the past two decades has hovered between emphasis on perpetuating a body of masterpieces or creative musicianship.
One hopes that as our field continues to evolve in more experimental directions phonologists will take up this and other basic questions that have hovered over the discipline for years.
The counts, however, hovered near 50% suggesting an ambiguity in the stimulus.
The temperature of both air and water hovered around freezing point.
The lyrics were very uplifting at a time when dark clouds of despair hovered over the society.
Unemployment was rampant, exceeding the national average which hovered around 20 per cent, and agricultural life was frequently disrupted.
