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Beehive
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- 1 The executive wing of the New Zealand parliament buildings. New-Zealand, informal
- 2 New Zealand government. broadly
- 1 A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live.; Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.
- 2 A participant aged either twelve or thirteen years old in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church. Mormonism
- 3 a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees wordnet
- 4 A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live.; A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.
- 5 any workplace where people are very busy wordnet
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- 6 Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy. figuratively
- 7 a hairdo resembling a beehive wordnet
- 8 A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.
- 9 a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree wordnet
- 10 A particular style of hat.
"A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…]."
- 11 A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
"By the time it was over, Stone had been blown thirty feet through the air by a beehive round as he was running across a field, knocked out by the concussion of the blast."
- 12 Alternative form of Beehive. New-Zealand, alt-of, alternative, nonstandard
"Brian Small said that the Minister could not 'hide in the beehive any longer'"
- 13 In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance.
"By the way, what happens to a beehive which is under attack by one or two gliders such as pictured:"
- 14 A diagram showing where balls have passed the batter, used in analysis.
- 1 To fill (a place) with busy activity. rare, transitive
"Quite naturally, if there are more ministers swarming the cabinet rooms and conference halls, then there will be a spate of civil servants beehiving the secretariat."
- 2 To style the hair in a hive-shaped or bouffant form. rare, transitive
Etymology
From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive.
From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive.
From beehive.
From beehive.
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