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noun
A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: beehive
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noun
The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
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noun
A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
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noun
A section of the registry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Microsoft Windows
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
An itchy, red, swollen area of the skin; singular or attributive form of hives.
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verb
To collect (bees) into a hive.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To form a hive-like entity.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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noun
a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: beehive
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Broader terms: receptacle
Narrower terms: skep
noun
a teeming multitude
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: multitude, throng, concourse
noun
a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: beehive
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Broader terms: nest
verb
gather into a hive
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: gather, garner, collect, pull together
verb
move together in a hive or as if in a hive
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Broader terms: meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather
verb
store, like bees
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Broader terms: store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away
History
From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”). See also Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”); also Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve. The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see this for more.
Across languages
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
