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单词 hovering
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hoveringn.

/ˈhɒvərɪŋ//ˈhʌvərɪŋ/
Etymology: < hover v.1 + -ing suffix1.
The action of hover v.1
1.
a. Suspension or poising in the air on fluttering or outstretched wings; lingering about or around, moving to and fro about a person or place. See also hover v.1 1c, 1d.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > remaining near
hovering1727
the world > space > relative position > support > absence of support > [noun] > holding or being held up without support > in the air
hovering1727
hover1893
1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions ix. 178 The hovering or wandering in the Air.
1802 Act 42 Geo. III c. 82 Liable to Forfeiture for hovering, or being found or discovered to have been, within Four Leagues of the Coast.
1886 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log 211 The hovering in the sun of those bright-coloured two-winged flies we sometimes call drones.
1894 J. Le Conte in Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 746 Hovering..always refers to a maintenance of a body in one position in the air;..either by vigorous flapping of the wings, or else..with no motion of the wings at all... I shall..confine the term hovering to the former.
1916 M. A. S. Riach Air-screws ix. 113 The value of (V) is zero, and the machine remains stationary. This is the condition already established for ‘hovering’ flight.
1960 E. L. Houghton & A. E. Brock Aerodynamics viii. 179 In steady hovering, the weight is balanced by the jet thrust and the force due to the ‘cushion’ of air below the craft.
1962 Daily Tel. 4 Sept. 17/1 Their hovering manœuvres,..and the transformation in the air to ‘normal’ fast flying fighter planes, marked a new era in the development of aircraft.
b. Motion of a hovercraft while it is supported on an air-cushion: see hover v.1 1d.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [noun] > riding the waves > riding on cushion of air
cushion-riding1960
hovering1967
1967 Hovercraft World Jan.–Apr. 14/1 We waved good-bye..at 10.15 hours heading for Wexford, 75 miles away. The fog soon lifted and this leg was a straightforward piece of ‘hovering’.
2. Brooding, incubation. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > egg > [noun] > incubation
sittinga1398
broodingc1440
incumbency1651
hovering1672
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. vi. 167 What the Hen by Incubation or Hovering, is to the Egg or Chick.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iii. vi. 280 Many Birds stand in need of the hovering of their Dams Wings..after they are hatched.
3. Hesitation, wavering, suspense.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [noun]
yea-and-nayc1384
vacillationc1400
titteringa1413
stackeringc1440
wondingc1440
fluctuationc1450
waver1519
mammering1532
uncertainty1548
wavering1548
to and fro1553
suspense1560
staggering1565
suspension1568
mammery1578
demur1581
branle1591
dilly-dally1592
hesitance1601
irresolution1601
uncertainness1601
undecision1611
waveringness1614
hesitancy1617
unsettledness1619
hesitation1622
unresolvednessa1626
doubleness of minda1628
wavinga1628
swagging1636
poise1637
mambling1640
stickagea1647
vacillancy1668
whifflinga1677
hovering1679
unresolve1679
irresoluteness1686
shilly-shally1755
indecisiona1763
undecisiveness1779
indecisiveness1793
oscillation1798
flexility1815
shilly-shallying1842
swaying1850
Hamletism1852
teeter1855
havering1866
off and on1875
dilly-dallying1879
double-mindedness1881
hesitatingness1890
dither1958
1679 T. Oates True Narr. Horrid Plot Ep. Ded. sig. A2v The Arts and Hoverings..used in vain..to suppress and traduce the Evidence.
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. vi. 114 A new play had just been acted, and the conversation, after a few preliminary hoverings, settled upon it.
4. The practice of smuggling.
ΚΠ
1907 Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 5/1 The fraud charged against them was that of taking, hovering, and dealing in saccharin, which was subject to duty.
1908 H. Atton & H. H. Holland King's Customs 198 The officers..were directed [in 1727] to make the master enter into a ‘hovering bond’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

hoveringadj.

Etymology: < hover v.1 + -ing suffix2.
That hovers:
a. That hangs poised in the air; that floats or hangs about a particular spot.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > support > absence of support > [adjective] > held up without support > in the air
poising?1473
pendentc1600
pensile1605
pendulous1608
hovering1630
1630 M. Drayton Noahs Floud in Muses Elizium 100 The soaring Kyte..to the Arke the houering Castrill brings.
1756 W. Mason Odes iii. 18 He, too, perchance, when these poor limbs are laid, Will heave one tuneful sigh, and sooth my hov'ring shade.
1865 H. W. Longfellow Divina Comm. iii The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb.
1875 E. H. Sears Serm. & Songs 8 Hovering and protecting wings.
b. Hesitating, wavering; uncertain.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [adjective]
twiredec888
orrathc1175
twofoldc1175
twifoldc1200
waveringc1315
uncertain1382
suspensec1440
mammeringa1450
flowing?1504
floghtering1521
vacillant1521
in a mammering1532
double-minded1552
unstaid1561
unresolute1570
unresolved?1571
staggeringa1577
frittle1579
irresolute1579
cheverel1583
off and on1583
halting1585
unsettleda1593
unresolving1599
demurring1607
waving1611
suspensive1614
hoveringa1616
startling1619
irresolved1621
hesitating1622
indetermined1628
variousa1643
branling1645
hesitant1647
non-sincere1656
hesitatious1657
humdrum1660
shuttlecock1660
yea-and-nay1672
swaying1688
interpendent1708
undetermined1718
Squadronec1720
hesitatorya1734
volanta1734
shilly-shally1734
dilly-dally1749
niffy-naffy1765
wiggle-waggle1778
undecided1779
undecisive1780
indecisive1787
conflicted1789
hesitative1795
undeciding1802
vacillating1814
yea-nay1827
demurrant1836
willy-nilly1839
shilly-shallying1842
oscillative1852
Hamletish1854
vacillatory1854
dilly-dallying1879
thistledown1897
weak-principled1913
not-quite1920
off-again on-again1923
dithery1931
havering1975
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 304 A houering Temporizer. View more context for this quotation
1635 Sir H. Wotton in Lismore Papers (1888) 2nd Ser. III. 220 We have stoode..in a kinde of hovering conceypt that your Lordship would be shortly heere in person.

Derivatives

ˈhoveringly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > support > absence of support > [adverb] > in the air
hoveringly1818
1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 91 Let the sounds Of our close voices marry at their birth; Let us entwine hoveringly.
1892 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 151 390/1 Her little white feet skimmed so hoveringly over the floor.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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