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Hive

//haɪv// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.

    "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."

  2. 2
    An itchy, red, swollen area of the skin; singular or attributive form of hives.

    "[…] if you are allergic to it, the skin produces a localized red, itchy reaction, a hive. The hive appears within minutes of the allergy skin test and lasts up to approximately 24 hours."

  3. 3
    a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees wordnet
  4. 4
    The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.

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

  5. 5
    a teeming multitude wordnet
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  1. 6
    A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.

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

  2. 7
    a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree wordnet
  3. 8
    A section of the registry.

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

Verb
  1. 1
    To collect (bees) into a hive. transitive

    "to hive a swarm of bees"

  2. 2
    gather into a hive wordnet
  3. 3
    To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive. transitive

    "Hiving wisdom with each studious year."

  4. 4
    move together in a hive or as if in a hive wordnet
  5. 5
    To form a hive-like entity. intransitive
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  1. 6
    store, like bees wordnet
  2. 7
    To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body. intransitive

    "The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, / Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day / More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me; / Therefore I part with him; and part with him / To one what I would have him help to waste / His borrowed purse. […]"

  3. 8
    Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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 https://web.archive.org/web/20150715222122/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/08/54618.aspx.

Etymology 2

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 https://web.archive.org/web/20150715222122/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/08/54618.aspx.

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