different between hover vs flee

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoveren, equivalent with hove +? -er (frequentative suffix).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?.v?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?v?(r)
• (US, formerly also UK) IPA^(key): /?h?.v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(r)

Verb

hover (third-person singular simple present hovers, present participle hovering, simple past and past participle hovered)

1. (intransitive) To float in the air.

2. (intransitive) To linger or hang in one place, especially in an uncertain manner.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     The neighborhood, to our ears, seemed haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlor floor, and the thought of that detestable blind beggar hovering near at hand, and ready to return, there were moments when, as the saying goes, I jumped in my skin for terror.

3. (intransitive) To waver, or be uncertain.

4. (computing, intransitive) To place the cursor over a hyperlink or icon without clicking.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Welsh: hofran

Translations

Noun

hover (plural hovers)

1. The act of hovering

Etymology 2

Unknown

Pronunciation

Noun

hover (plural hovers)

1. A cover; a shelter; a protection.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Carew to this entry?)

   • 1867, Charles Kingsley, Superstition

     Without the instinct of self-preservation, which causes the sea-anemone to contract its tentacles, or the fish to dash into its hover, species would be extermined wholesale by involuntary suicide.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• høver

Noun

hover m

1. indefinite plural of hov

Scots

Verb

hover (third-person singular present hovers, present participle hoverin, past hovert, past participle hovert)

1. to hover
2. to pause (in hesitation)

English

Etymology

From Old English fl?on, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhan?, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”).

Cognate with Dutch vlieden, German fliehen, Icelandic flýja, Swedish fly, Gothic ???????????????????????????? (þliuhan). Within English, related to fly and more distantly to flow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fli?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophone: flea

Verb

flee (third-person singular simple present flees, present participle fleeing, simple past and past participle fled)

1. (intransitive) To run away; to escape.
2. (transitive) To escape from.
3. (intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish.

Derived terms

• beflee

Related terms

• flight

Translations

Anagrams

• elfe, feel, fele, leef

Middle English

Noun

flee

1. Alternative form of fle

Scots

Alternative forms

• fle, flei

Etymology

From Middle English flye, from Old English fl??e, fl?oge, from Proto-Germanic *fleug?. Compare English fly, Dutch vlieg, German Fliege.

Noun

flee

1. fly