hover
suomi-englanti sanakirjahover englannista suomeksi
epäröidä, häilyä
pysytellä
leijailla
leijua
leijua jnk yllä
Verbi
suojella siivillään">suojella siivillään, kätkeä siipiensä alle">kätkeä siipiensä alle
Substantiivi
paikallaan pysyvä lintuparvi">paikallaan pysyvä lintuparvi, leijuva lintuparvi">leijuva lintuparvi
hover englanniksi
To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Bensley|Thomas Bensley; for White (publisher)|Benjamin White and Son,(nb...)|year=1789|page=212|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=yVsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA212|oclc=3423785|passage=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.
Of a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air.
(RQ:Sylvester Du Bartas)
(RQ:Behn Luckey Chance)
To remain stationary or float in the air.
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(quote-book)|title=The School of Abuse, Containing a Pleasant Invective against Poets, Pipers, Players, Jesters, &c.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) Shoberl, Jun. for the Shakespeare Society|year=1579|year_published=1841|page=49|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=WjAJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA49|oclc=311576778|passage=Though you go to Theaters to see sport, (w) may cache you ere you departe. The little god hovereth aboute you, and fanneth you with his wings to kindle fire: when you are set as fixed whites, Desire draweth his arrow to the head, and sticketh it uppe to the fethers, and Fancy bestireth him to shed his poyson through every vayne.
(RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets)
(RQ:Boyle Occasional Reflections) till at length having guzzl'd and croak'd enough, when by hovering over his beloved Dainties, he had rais'd himself high enough, to prompt me to fire at him, (..)
(RQ:Defoe Tradesman)
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Charles J. Skeet,(nb...)|year=1857|volume=I|page=87|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=grxroi57RJUC&pg=PA87|oclc=85108862|passage=Thou hoveredst, like a guardian angel—healing in thy wings, and glad-tidings all around thee—over the poor lost-one.
(RQ:Black Green Pastures)
(RQ:Stevenson Dynamiter) I found we were lying in a roadstead among many low and rocky islets, hovered about by an innumerable cloud of sea-fowl.
(quote-journal), 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.|footer=(small)
''Sometimes followed by'' over: to around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
(synonyms)
(RQ:Marston Antonio and Mellida)
(RQ:Thomson Works)
(quote-book)|edition=new|location=Lewes, East Sussex|publisher=Sussex Press,(nb...) John Baxter; London: Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy,(nb...)|year=1818|page=408|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=nF8UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA408|oclc=13569573|passage=The fat swimmeth above, and the best thereof hovereth always uppermost; but the unclean matter, or the dregs is left at the bottom like a dead carcase and worthless thing. Even so likewise, God will deal at the day of judgment, therewith he will separate all things through fire, will separate the righteous from the ungodly, (..)
(RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia) the image of that fair child, (..) hovered over him; and the very air grew warmer, as if with a living breath.
(RQ:Eliot Romola)
(RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island)
(quote-journal)
To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
(RQ:Spenser Ireland)
(RQ:Spectator) what can support her under such tremblings of thought, such fear, such anxiety, such apprehensions, but the casting of all her cares upon Him who first gave her being, who has conducted her through one stage of it, and will be always with her in her progress through eternity?
(RQ:Black Phaeton)
''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).
To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
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.
(RQ:Carew Survey of Cornwall)
(RQ:Kingsley Water-Babies) past dark hovers under swirling banks, from which great trout rushed out on Tom, thinking him to be good to eat, and turned back sulkily, for the fairies sent them home again with a tremendous scolding, for daring to meddle with a water-baby; (..)
(RQ:Kingsley Health and Education)
(inflection of)
to hover
to pause (gloss)