Brooding vs. Hover — What's the Difference?

The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds hatched at one time and cared for together.

Remain in one place in the air

The children in one family.

An act of remaining in the air in one place

To focus the attention on a subject persistently and moodily; worry

To remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air

To be depressed

To remain or linger in or near a place

To sit on or hatch eggs.

To remain in an uncertain state; waver

To protect developing eggs or young.

(Computers) To position a pointer over an object or area of the screen, causing a pop-up box to appear or other change to occur

To hover envelopingly; hang

To cause to hover

To think about (something) persistently or moodily

(Computers) To position (a pointer) over an object or area of the screen

To sit on or hatch (eggs).

The act or state of hovering

To protect (developing eggs or young).

(transitive)

Kept for breeding

To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.

(of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.

Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).

Deeply or seriously thoughtful.

(obsolete) Of a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air.

Present participle of brood

(intransitive)

A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.

To remain stationary or float in the air.

Worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about a particular problem.

(figuratively)

Good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that purpose; as, a brooding hen.

(computing) Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).

The process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body; - mostly used of birds.

(nautical) To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.

Sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body

An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.

Persistent morbid meditation on a problem

A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.

Persistently or morbidly thoughtful

(figuratively) An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.

A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.

A cover; a shelter; a protection.

To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something.

To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.

Be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action;

Move to and fro;

Hang in the air; fly or be suspended above

Be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity;

Hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing;