Hive

/haɪv/ · noun

Meaning

A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees..

Definitions by Sense

1. A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
2. The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
3. A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
4. (computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
5. (transitive) To collect (bees) into a hive.
6. (transitive) To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
7. (intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
8. (intransitive) To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.

Example Sentences

First, for thy Bees a quiet Station find, / And lodge 'em under Covert of the Wind: / For Winds, when homeward they return, will drive / The loaded Carriers from their Ev'ning Hive.

When that the general is not like the hive, to whom the foragers shall all repair, what honey is expected?

There the horde of Roman robbers mock at a barbarous adversary. / There the hive of Roman liars worship a gluttonous emperor-idiot.

Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives[…]

For devices built with hive-based registry implementation, the registry data are broken into three different hives — the boot hive, system hive, and user hive.

to hive a swarm of bees

Hiving wisdom with each studious year.

1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Martha Blount […] to get into warmer houses, and hive together in cities

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• hives
• hiving
• hived

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