Synonyms of the word

hover

• v. To float in the air.
• v. To linger in one place.
• v. To waver, or be uncertain.
• v. (computing) To place the cursor over a hyperlink or icon without clicking.
• n. A cover; a shelter; a protection.

brood

• n. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same…
• n. (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
• n. The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together…
• n. The children in one family.
• n. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
• n. (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
• v. (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
• v. (transitive) To protect.
• v. (intransitive) To dwell upon moodily and at length (with adpositions generally being either about or over).

fly

• n. (rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
• n. (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless…
• n. (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other…
• n. Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
• n. (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
• n. (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest…
• n. (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
• n. (obsolete) A parasite.
• n. (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
• v. (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded…
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
• v. (intransitive) To travel very fast.
• v. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
• v. To hunt with a hawk.
• v. (transitive) To display a flag on a flagpole.
• n. (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
• n. An act of flying.
• n. (baseball) A fly ball.
• n. (now historical) A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised flys).
• n. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
• n. A strip of material hiding the zipper, buttons etc. at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants,…
• n. The free edge of a flag.
• n. The horizontal length of a flag.
• n. Butterfly, a form of swimming.
• n. (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
• n. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
• n. (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
• n. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of…
• n. A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the…
• n. In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while…
• n. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
• n. (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
• n. (printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
• n. (printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the…
• n. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
• n. (cotton manufacture) waste cotton.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground…
• adj. (slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
• adj. (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance.
• adj. (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.

hang

• v. (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
• v. (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
• v. (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to…
• v. (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, or the like.
• v. (transitive, law) To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
• v. (intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised…
• v. (intransitive, informal) To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
• v. (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
• v. (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
• v. (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must…
• v. (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard and mouse.
• v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
• v. (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
• v. (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
• v. (transitive, baseball, slang) Of a pitcher, to throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
• n. The way in which something hangs.
• n. (figuratively) A grip, understanding.
• n. (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input devices.
• n. A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
• n. (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap, processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
• n. Alternative spelling of Hang.

hesitate

• v. (intransitive) To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to…
• v. (intransitive) To stammer; to falter in speaking.
• v. (transitive, poetic, rare) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.

levitate

• v. (transitive) To cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity.
• v. (intransitive) To be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity.

linger

• v. (intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not…
• v. (intransitive) To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die…
• v. (intransitive, often followed by on) To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic…

loom

• n. A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
• n. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for…
• n. The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade, the shaft.
• n. (dated) loon (bird of order Gaviformes).
• v. to impend; to threaten or hang over.
• v. To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.

oscillate

• v. (intransitive) To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To vacillate between conflicting opinions, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To vary above and below a mean value.

vacillate

• v. (intransitive) To sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate.
• v. (intransitive) To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

vibrate

• v. To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro.
• v. To resonate.
• v. To brandish; to swing to and fro.
• v. To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
• v. To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
• n. The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to vibrate rather than sound any (or most)…

waffle

• n. (countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern.
• n. (countable, Britain) A potato waffle, a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
• v. To smash.
• n. (uncountable) Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive.
• v. (of birds) To move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing. Cf wiffle, whiffle.
• v. To speak or write vaguely and evasively.
• v. To speak or write at length without any clear point or aim.
• v. To vacillate.
• v. (transitive) To rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of vacillation or ambivalence.

waver

• v. (intransitive) To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
• v. (intransitive) To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
• v. (intransitive) To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
• v. (intransitive) To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
• v. (intransitive) To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
• n. An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
• n. Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
• n. Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
• n. A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.

wing

• n. An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side…
• n. (slang) Human arm.
• n. Part of an airplane that produces the lift for rising into the air.
• n. One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
• n. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
• n. (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of…
• n. (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
• n. A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
• n. Passage by flying; flight.
• n. Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
• n. A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
• n. Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air,…
• n. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
• n. A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
• n. An organizational grouping in a military aviation service.
• n. (Britain) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
• n. (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
• n. (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the…
• n. (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
• n. (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger.
• n. (botany) A flattened extension of a tridimensional plant organ.
• n. (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
• n. (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
• n. (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
• v. (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.
• v. (intransitive) To fly.
• v. (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
• v. (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
• v. (transitive) To throw.