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Hoover (noun)
A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
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Hoover (verb)
To clean (a room, etc.) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
“I need to hoover this room.”
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Hoover (verb)
To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
“My husband is upstairs, hoovering.”
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Hoover (verb)
To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner.
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Hover (verb)
To float in the air.
“The hummingbird hovered by the plant.”
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Hover (verb)
To linger in one place.
“The strange man hovered outside the gents.”
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Hover (verb)
To waver, or be uncertain.
“Filling in the voting form, I hovered between Labour and Liberal Democrat.”
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Hover (verb)
To place the cursor over a hyperlink or icon without clicking.
“A tooltip appears when you hover over this link.”
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Hover (noun)
The act of hovering
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Hover (noun)
A cover; a shelter; a protection.
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Hoover (noun)
a vacuum cleaner, properly one made by the Hoover company.
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Hoover (noun)
a US city in north central Alabama, south of Birmingham; population 71,020 (est. 2008).
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Hoover (verb)
clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner
“he was hoovering the stairs”
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Hoover (verb)
suck something up with or as if with a vacuum cleaner
“hoover up all the dust”
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Hoover (verb)
consume something quickly and eagerly
“he hoovered up three slices of cake”
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Hover (verb)
remain in one place in the air
“Army helicopters hovered overhead”
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Hover (verb)
remain poised uncertainly in one place or between two states
“her hand hovered over the console”
“his expression hovered between cynicism and puzzlement”
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Hover (verb)
linger close at hand, especially in a hesitant or uncertain manner
“she hovered anxiously in the background”
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Hover (verb)
remain at or near a particular level
“inflation will hover around the 4 per cent mark”
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Hover (verb)
use a mouse or other device to position the cursor over a particular area of a computer screen so as to cause a program to respond (typically by displaying additional information or options), without clicking a button on the device
“you can hover your cursor over any button to see an explanation”
“if you hover over the video, it will play a preview with sound”
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Hover (noun)
an act of remaining in the air in one place
“keep the model in a stable hover”