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The batteries can overheat, catch fire or explode, according to Amazon.com.

Amazon stops selling some hoverboards over safety

Several models pulled by online retailer over fire hazard fears.

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Ever since Marty McFly rode a hoverboard in the Back to the Future Trilogy, people have been dreaming of making the floating device a reality. Now, a start-up says it has it figured out.

Hoverboard? Still in the Future

For the last 25 years, inventors like garage tinkerers, physics professors and engineers have been trying to make a hovering skateboard.

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Europe Strains on Gay Marriage Interests
By PAUL GEITNER 7:33 PM ET

Many gay couples, like Elisa Bestetti, top, and Emmi Pihlajaniemi, leave their rights behind when they cross Europe’s borders because of lingering differences.

ABREAST OF THE MARKET
Stocks, Oil Moving in Lockstep

Crude oil is now influenced more by the stock market than by its own inventory levels or demand patterns, with the correlation hovering around 70%. Last week, this high correlation was a double-whammy for investors who owned both oil and stocks.

In His Last Days, Qaddafi Wearied of Fugitive’s Life
By KAREEM FAHIM 7:49 PM ET

After 42 years of absolute power in Libya, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi spent his last days hovering between defiance, anger and delusion, according to an aide captured with him.


hover(hŭv'ər, hŏv'-)
intr.v., -ered, -er·ing, -ers.

1. To remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air: gulls hovering over the waves.
2. To remain or linger in or near a place: hovering around the speaker's podium.
3. To remain in an uncertain state; waver: hovered between anger and remorse.

n.
The act or state of hovering: a helicopter in hover.

[Middle English hoveren, frequentative of hoven.]

hoverer hov'er·er n.
hoveringly hov'er·ing·ly adv.

VERB

[NO OBJECT, WITH ADVERBIAL]

1Remain in one place in the air:Army helicopters hovered overhead

1.1Remain poised uncertainly in one place or between two states:her hand hovered over the consolehis expression hovered between cynicism and puzzlement

1.2Linger close at hand in an uncertain manner:she hovered anxiously in the background

1.3Remain at or near a particular level:inflation will hover around the 4 per cent mark

NOUN

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An act of hovering:keep the model in a stable hover

Origin

late middle english: from archaic hove 'hover, linger', of unknown origin.

Derivatives

hoverer

NOUN

hovercraft

Line breaks: hov¦er|craft

Pronunciation: /ˈhɒvəkrɑːft /

NOUN (plural same)

A vehicle or craft that travels over land or water on a cushion of air provided by a downward blast. A design was first patented by Christopher Cockerell in 1955.

defiance

• [difáiəns]

[名][U]

1 （権威・敵対者などに対する）果敢な抵抗, 大胆な反抗；挑戦((against ...))

defiance of established authority
既成の権威に対する反抗

a letter of defiance
挑戦状

Jeans became a symbol of defiance against authority.
ジーンズは権威に対する反抗の象徴となった.

2 （…への）公然の無視, 軽蔑((of ...)).

in defiance of ...

…にもかかわらず, を物ともせず.

a·breast (ə-brĕst')
abresatadv.

1. Side by side: ships docked two abreast.
2. Up to date: keeping abreast of the latest developments.

lingering[lin・ger・ing]

• 発音記号[líŋgəriŋ]

[形]長引く, ぐずつく

I had a lingering headache.
頭痛が長く続いた.

lin・ger・ing・ly

[副]

linger[lin・ger]

• 発音記号[líŋgər]

[動](自)［I（[副]）］

1 （去りかねて）ぐずぐずする, 居残る((about, around, on, behind/over ...)). ⇒LOITER

linger around a coffee shop
喫茶店になんとはなしに長居する.

2 （物思い・楽しみなどに）いつまでもふける［とどまる］((on, upon, over ...)).

3 〈病人が〉細々と生き長らえる；〈病気が〉長引く；〈習慣・疑いなどが〉なかなかなくならない, 残存する((on)).

4 （行動などが）のろい, 遅れる, （…に）手間どる((over, in ...))；〈時が〉だらだらしている；ぶらぶら［のろのろ］歩く, 散歩する；〈交通が〉渋滞する

linger over one's work
だらだら仕事する

linger in finishing one's homework
ぐずぐずしてなかなか宿題を終えない.

━━(他)

1 〈時・人生などを〉だらだら［ぐずぐず］過ごす, ゆっくり［のんびり］過ごす((away, out))

I lingered away the afternoon at the pool.
プールで午後をゆっくり過ごした.

2 〈花の〉開花を（人為的に）遅らせる.

［中英語lenger（古英語lengan延ばす＋-er）. -engは規則的に-ingに変わる. ⇒THINK, WING, ENGLISH. △LONG¹］

lin・ger・er

[名]