Hive definition

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hived hives hiving
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To collect into a hive.
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A crowd of busy, very active people.
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To live with many others in close association.
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A place swarming with activity.
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A structure for housing domesticated honeybees.
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A nest built by wild or feral bees.
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A colony of bees living in such a structure or nest.
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To store (honey) in a hive.
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To store up; accumulate.
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To enter and occupy a beehive.
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A place where many people are busy or actively engaged.
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A box or other shelter for a colony of domesticated bees.
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Any structure made or used by a colony of bees, wasps, etc. as a nesting place.
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A colony of bees living in a hive; swarm.
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To put or gather (bees) into a hive.
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To store up (honey) in a hive.
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To store up for future use; garner.
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To enter a hive.
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To live together in or as in a hive.
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A structure for housing a swarm of honeybees.

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The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.

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A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.

A wretched hive of scum and villainy.

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(computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
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(intransitive, entomology) To enter or possess a hive.
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(intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
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To collect into a hive.

To hive a swarm of bees.

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To store in a hive or similarly.
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(intransitive) To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.

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hive off
  • to depart from a group
  • to separate from the whole
    hived off the first graders to another playground.
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Noun

Singular:
hive
Plural:
hives

Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

Origin of hive

  • Middle English from Old English hȳf

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English hyfe, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-Germanic *hūbī (compare Dutch huif ‘beehive’, Danish dialect huv ‘ship's hull’), from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”) (compare Latin cūpa ‘tub, vat’, Ancient Greek κύπη (kyphē) ‘gap, hole’, κύπελλον (kýpellon) ‘beaker’, Sanskrit kū́pa ‘cave’), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”). The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see .

    From Wiktionary

Hive Sentence Examples

  • The beekeeper opens the lower part of the hive and peers in.

  • A beekeeper, seeing the bee collect pollen from flowers and carry it to the hive, says that it exists to gather honey.

  • We refer to the hive.

  • It would be difficult to imagine anything more exhilarating to a beginner in bee-keeping than the sight of his first hive in the act of swarming.

  • The action of the bees themselves makes this point clear, for when the season of mating is past the drone is no longer needed, the providing of winter stores taking first place in the economy of the hive.

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