hover

Object

• cursor: For a summary of each of these stages hover the cursor over the image, or click the image for more information.
• mouse: Just hover the mouse over the number squares to change the center image.
• overhead: A falcon was engraved behind statues of kings sitting on their thrones or hovering overhead.
• pointer: Hovering the pointer over a picture will tell you the size of the file you are about to open.
• helicopter: Police Motorcycles guided the funeral cars through the mid-day traffic as a hovering helicopter kept a watchful eye on the proceeding cavalcade.

Preposition: on

• brink: The railways of America stood hovering on the brink of bankruptcy.
• horizon: Two new Charlie Resnick stories hover on the horizon.

Preposition: at

altitude: The two men estimated that the object hovered at an altitude of about 400 feet.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: Can you see what's hovering around Jesus ' head?
• over: Go up there with Zero, then use Axl to hover over to the left to get the Rare Metal.

Adjective modifier

3-foot: The P* will complete the check, return to a 3-foot hover, and announce that the check is completed.

Adjective complement

motionless: It appeared to be caused by some large body hovering motionless above the clouds.

Modifying Another Word

uneasily: Topper - " expressly tailored for the young man's taste " - hovers uneasily in the twilight zone.

Modifies a noun

• mower: We shall also discuss hover mowers to see whether they really are a lot less bother.
• fly: East Anglia has been the scene of a plague of hover flies, apparently blown over to our shores from Europe.

Followed by a transitive particle

• around: Most of their employees hover around the minimum wage.
• over: You will find the help notes by hovering over the answer with the cursor or mouse.

Preposition: in

• mid-air: Like Nijinsky who explained how he gave the impression of hovering in mid-air - ' I just pause when I get up there ' .
• sky: The tower operators looked and there was a " huge fiery orange sphere " hovering in the sky directly over their range station.

Noun used with modifier

mouse: Letting your mouse hover over each image should cause a caption to appear.