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Allen, National Review , 10 Mar. 2022", "After the building was demolished, Warner moved into a hovel at 406\u00bd Francisco St., just steps away from the site of his beloved saloon. \u2014 Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle , 5 Mar. 2021", "Producers and directors whose story lines call for gritty hovels , classic capes, bungalows, grand beachfront properties and every sort of residence in between have an incentive to make do with the housing stock in the five boroughs. \u2014 Joanne Kaufman, New York Times , 6 Sep. 2019", "Inside, my hovel smelled musty as a summer cottage in the off-season. \u2014 Wes Enzinna, Harper's magazine , 19 Nov. 2019", "At the core of the play is the relationship between Sawyer and Scratch (Evan Jonigkeit), the alluring devil who one strange day appears in her hovel . \u2014 Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter , 30 Aug. 2019", "These days, Will and Kate live in Kensington Palace in London, but back in her bachelorette phase, Kate wasn't living in a hovel with roommates and subsisting on ramen and hope like many recent grads. \u2014 Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire , 22 Sep. 2018" ], "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8h\u0259-v\u0259l", "\u02c8h\u00e4-" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "cabin", "camp", "hooch", "hootch", "hut", "hutch", "hutment", "shack", "shanty" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005532", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "hoveler":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a boat that is used by a hoveler":[], ": a usually unlicensed coast boatman who does odd jobs in assisting ships or goes out to wrecks to land passengers or secure salvage":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "origin unknown":"" }, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102610", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "hoven":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": afflicted with bloat":[], ": bloat sense 2":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "from archaic past participle of heave":"Adjective" }, "pronounciation":[ "\"", "\u02c8h\u014dv\u0259n" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-084855", "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] }, "hover":{ "antonyms":[ "settle", "sink" ], "definitions":{ ": the act or state of hovering in the air":[ "Ospreys were most successful hunting from a hover and spent more of their hunting time doing it that way.", "\u2014 John P. Wiley Jr.", "After a careful check outside to ensure that his flight path was clear, one of the pilots lifted his helicopter to a hover , then maneuvered to the middle of the valley.", "\u2014 Breck Henderson" ], ": to be in a state of uncertainty, irresolution, or suspense":[ "\u2026 hovering uncomfortably behind a cigar \u2026", "\u2014 Tennessee Williams", "The country hovers on the brink of famine." ], ": to hang fluttering in the air or on the wing":[ "A hawk hovered overhead." ], ": to move to and fro near a place : fluctuate around a given point":[ "Unemployment hovered around 10 percent." ], ": to position (a computer cursor) over something (such as an image or icon) without selecting it":[ "Many in the class hovered their cursors over words and icons for long periods before committing to clicking their mouse.", "\u2014 Kelly Heyboer" ], ": to remain suspended over a place or object":[ "a hummingbird hovering over the flowers", "Helicopters hovered above us." ] }, "examples":[ "Verb", "Watch as the hummingbird hovers over the flowers.", "Bees hovered around the hive.", "Waiters hovered near our table.", "nervous mothers hovering over their children", "Unemployment rates were hovering around 10 percent.", "Temperatures will continue to hover around freezing.", "The patient was hovering between life and death.", "The country hovers on the brink of famine.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Temperatures will hover around the low 90s for the rest of the week and into next, with thunderstorm odds between 40% and 50% Thursday through Monday. \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel , 29 June 2022", "On May 12, the price of Luna dropped 96% in a day, down to less than 10 cents and has continued to hover around zero since. \u2014 Taylor Locke, Fortune , 26 May 2022", "The Beehive State\u2019s jobless rate continued to hover at about half the national average, which was 6.3% in January. \u2014 Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 Mar. 2021", "Over the last week, the daily case report continued to hover in the 4,000-7,000 range, having only dipped below 4,000 once since Oct. 31. \u2014 Paola P\u00e9rez, orlandosentinel.com , 7 July 2020", "With employee numbers that hover around 100,000, this could mean 10,000 workers being shown the door. \u2014 Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes , 16 June 2022", "The essays in this book are not confined to downtown, though many hover there. \u2014 The Week Staff, The Week , 13 June 2022", "Drones fitted with cameras hover over centuries-old farms, allowing farmers to use fertilizer only where it is really needed, while nearby laboratories use the same lasers employed by NASA on Mars to perform soil analysis in seconds. \u2014 Vinod Sreeharsha, WSJ , 8 June 2022", "Russian troops faced no real adversary in Syria; the war was mostly an air force operation where the pilots could hover over targets at will. \u2014 New York Times , 16 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "1513, in the meaning defined above":"Noun", "15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a":"Verb" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English hoveren , frequentative of hoven to hover":"Verb" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8h\u00e4-", "\u02c8h\u0259-v\u0259r" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "drift", "float", "glide", "hang", "poise", "ride", "sail", "swim", "waft" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111629", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "hover hawk":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": kestrel":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024443", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "hovercraft":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a vehicle that is supported above the surface of land or water by a cushion of air produced by downwardly directed fans":[] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "The hovercraft handled about two dozen evacuations for several years before being abandoned in 2010 as too costly and incapable of operating in high seas or winds. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022", "At one point King Cove received millions of federal dollars to buy a fast hovercraft , and a road was built to a landing site near the refuge. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022", "The futurist and the test pilot Is the world ready for wingless hovercraft levitating over cities and hotrodding through congested air corridors", "Commissioned in 2009, Cavour is also equipped with a well deck capable of launching and recovering landing craft, hovercraft , and amphibious vehicles. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 10 Jan. 2022", "Switalski piloted the hovercraft while Howard approached the swan with a blanket on the ice. \u2014 Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 16 Dec. 2021", "In January of this year, a similar case was reported in Massachusetts in which a dog had to be rescued from a frozen pond with the aid of a hovercraft . \u2014 Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com , 9 Dec. 2021", "Snowmachines and hovercraft remain prohibited on state roads, but on Thursday, Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer signed regulations that remove restrictions on many other vehicles starting Jan. 1. \u2014 James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Oct. 2021", "Farmers and residents scrambled to save cattle as the water quickly rose above the animals' heads, even deploying a hovercraft . \u2014 Jess Winter, CNN , 17 Nov. 2021" ], "first_known_use":{ "1959, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8h\u0259-v\u0259r-\u02cckraft", "\u02c8h\u00e4-" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003654", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "hoverfly":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": any of a family (Syrphidae) of dipteran flies that are noted for frequenting flowers and hovering at one place in the air and include some whose larvae prey on plant lice":[] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "To glean insights from the hoverfly , the team spent more than a decade carefully studying the neuronal pathways of its eyes and measuring their electrical responses to light. \u2014 Monique Brouillette, Scientific American , 20 Apr. 2022", "For this study, the researchers examined the hoverfly \u2019s visual system to develop a tool that uses similar mechanisms to clean up noisy data. \u2014 Monique Brouillette, Scientific American , 20 Apr. 2022", "What\u2019s more, some of the most important hoverfly species are migratory, so huge numbers can turn up and far outnumber honeybees at crucial times of the year. \u2014 Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Mar. 2021", "There have also been reports of great hoverfly migrations in the US, Nepal and Australia, suggesting that the phenomenon is widespread. \u2014 Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Mar. 2021", "Chiffchaffs and willow warblers sing in the sallow and alder, while every leaf seems to hold a butterfly or dragonfly or hoverfly . \u2014 The Economist , 5 July 2018" ], "first_known_use":{ "1881, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8h\u0259-v\u0259r-\u02ccfl\u012b", "\u02c8h\u00e4-" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020833", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "hovering accent":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a distribution of energy, pitch, or duration in two adjacent syllables in some utterance of verse when a heavy syllable occurs next to a syllable bearing the metrical ictus so that for perception the stress seems to be divided or diffused nearly equally over both (as cornfield in the line \u201cthat o'er\u00b4/the green\u00b4/cornfield/did pass\u00b4\u201d)":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164217", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "hovering act":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{}, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "from gerund of hover entry 1":"" }, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025419", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "hoverplane":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": helicopter":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102008", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "Hovis":{ "type":[ "trademark" ], "definitions":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8h\u014dv\u0259\u0307s" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-201232" }, "Hovhaness (Chakmakjian)":{ "type":[ "biographical name" ], "definitions":{ "Alan 1911\u20132000 American composer":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "h\u014d-\u02c8v\u00e4-n\u0259s" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-043819" } }