hover vs resolve

hover

verb
  • To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver. 

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

  • Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner. 

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

  • To remain stationary or float in the air. 

  • 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). 

  • To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface. 

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

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

  • 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. 

  • An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension. 

resolve

verb
  • To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain. 

  • To make a firm decision to do something. 

  • To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle. 

  • To find a solution to (a problem). 

  • To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance. 

  • To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something. 

  • To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up. 

  • To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain. 

  • To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet. 

  • To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid). 

  • To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state. 

  • To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid. 

  • To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers. 

noun
  • A determination to do something; a fixed decision. 

  • It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery. 

  • Determination; will power. 

  • An act of resolving something; resolution. 

How often have the words hover and resolve occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )