Hives

Definition: Hives

Hives

Noun

1. An itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs.

Date "hives" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Etymology: Hives \Hives\, noun. [Scottish; perhaps akin to English heave.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Hives

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream that your child is affected with hives, denotes that it will enjoy good health and be docile. To see strange children thus affected, you will be unduly frightened over the condition of some favorite. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Hives

Synonyms: nettle rash (n), urticaria (n), urtication (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Hives

English words defined with "hives": Bee glue ♦ Honey harvest ♦ transfusion reaction. (references)

Specialty definitions using "hives": BIOLOGICAL AIDE ♦ CALEA GLOMERATA, CALEA PENNELLII, CALEA PRUNIFOLIA, CALEA TERNIFOLIA, CALEA YURUPARINA ♦ Hives. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hives

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Bees, bees have hives! (Aliens; writing credit: James Cameron; David Giler)

I'm getting hives just from being around these ugly people. (Head Over Heels; writing credit: John J. Strauss; Ed Decter)

I'm covered in hives, I've showered four times, and for what? (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

Sorry I've got hives. (Alias; writing credit: Robert Soulé; Henri de Turenne)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Hives

Domain	Title
Books	Bee Hives and Bat Caves: Amazing Animal Homes (reference) Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City (reference) Homes, Holes and Hives (Look at Series) (reference) Honey Bees and Hives (Schaefer, Lola M., Honey Bees.) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Hives (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Hives of Honeyed Scotland (reference) Hives of Honeyed Sound (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Hives

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Photo Album: Hives

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Inspecting hives in the Finger Lakes National Forest, NY.Credit: USDA.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Hives

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Hives

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Yellow dye number 5 can cause hives, although rarely. (references)
		Histamine produces hives, watery eyes, sneezing, and itching. (references)
		The chemicals released by skin mast cells, in contrast, can prompt hives. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Hives

"Hives" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 94.29% of the time. "Hives" is used about 70 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	94.29%	66	41,290
Lexical Verb (-s form)	4.29%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	1.43%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	70	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Hives

The following table summarizes the usage of "hives" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Hives	Last name	200	33,623
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Hives

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "hives": bee-hives.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hives

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
hives	1,913	hives horse	15
the hives	547	hives photo	15
bee hives	105	hives rashes	14
hives picture	101	hives in child	14
cause of hives	70	hives treating	12
hives treatment	67	dog hives	12
chronic hives	47	hives home remedy	12
hives skin	47	hives honey bee	11
hives lyrics	42	hives remedy	10
hives allergy	40	baby hives	9
symptom hives	27	medical hives	8
cure for hives	23	hate hives i lyrics say so told	8
urticaria hives	22	sun hives	8
hives stress	22	hives like look	8
hives picture skin	22	during hives pregnancy	8
pregnancy and hives	20	bee hives picture	7
hives tab	19	hives thyroid	7
hives and child	18	hives picture rash	7
allergic reaction hives	15	hives treat	7
hives rash	15	hives rash skin	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hives

Language		Translations for "hives"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		urtikarie. (various references)

Bulgarian		уртикария (irritative fever, nettle rash), круп (croup), копривна треска (nettle rash). (various references)

Czech		vyrážka (eruption, exanthema, rash). (various references)

Danish		sekskantede celler i bitavler (hexagonal cells of the combs in the hives). (various references)

Dutch		raten (hexagonal cells of the combs in the hives). (various references)

Finnish		nokkoskuume (nettle-rash). (various references)

French		urticaire (m), urticaire. (various references)

German		Bienenstöcke. (various references)

Greek		κνίδωση (cnidosis, itch, scratchiness, urticaria), ερυθρά εξανθήματα, εξάνθημα (eruption, exanthema, pimple, pustule, rash, skin eruption). (various references)

Hungarian		csalánkiütés (nettle rash). (various references)

Italian		orticaria (cnidosis, nettle rash, urticaria), eruzione cutanea (eruption, rash). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		蕁麻疹 (nettle rash). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		じ�"まし�" (nettle rash). (various references)

Korean		꿀벌통 (hive). (various references)

Manx		yn eeh (nettle rash, urticaria). (various references)

Norwegian		elveblest. (various references)

Pig Latin		iveshay

Portuguese		urticária (cnidosis, network, urticaria), erupção da pele, difteria (croup, diphtheria), colmeeiro. (various references)

Romanian		vãrsat de vânt, urticarie (nettle rash, nettle rush), laringitã (laryngitis), erupţie (eruption, outbreak). (various references)

Russian		крапивница (nettle rash, nettle-rash, urticaria). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		koprivnjača (nettle rash). (various references)

Spanish		urticaria (cnidosis, nettle rash, urticaria). (various references)

Swedish		nässelfeber (nettlerash). (various references)

Thai		อาการโรคลมพิษ. (various references)

Turkish		kurdeşen (nettlerash, rash, urticaria), ürtiker (nettlerash, urticaria). (various references)

Ukranian		кропивниця. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hives

Derivations
	Words ending with "hives": archives, beehives, chives, shives. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Hives" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahive, havas, Havea, havest, havex, havis, havs, hebes, Hevea, hevs, Hibees, hibes, hies, hiles, hinve, hipes, hites, hiues, Hiva, Hivas, hivel, hiven, Hiver, hivet, hivey, hivi, hivne, hivo, hivy, hoves, hovis, Hovsep, hvis, hyve, Hyvot, ives, ohive. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Hives"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "hives" (pronounced hī"vz)
3	-ī" v z	arrives, chives, deprives, derives, dives, drives, fives, knives, revives, Rives, shives, strives, survives, thrives, wives.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Hives

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: shive.
	Words within the letters "e-h-i-s-v"
	-1 letter: hies, hive, shiv, vies, vise.
	-2 letters: hes, hie, his, sei, she, vie, vis.
	-3 letters: eh, es, he, hi, is, sh, si.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-i-s-v"
	+1 letter: chives, elvish, shavie, shiver, shives, shrive.
	+2 letters: chevies, chivies, dervish, evanish, heavies, mikvehs, peevish, seviche, shavies, shivers, shivery, shrieve, shrived, shrivel, shriven, shriver, shrives, thieves, thrives, vahines, vichies, yeshiva.
	+3 letters: achieves, adhesive, archives, beehives, beshiver, cavefish, ceviches, chervils, cheviots, chivvies, cohesive, devilish, dishevel, eightvos, elvishly, enravish, feverish, heaviest, hiveless, huswives, inveighs, khedives, lavished, lavisher, lavishes, liverish, overfish, ravished, ravisher, ravishes, seviches, sheaving, shelvier, shelving, shivaree, shivered, shiverer, shrieval, shrieved, shrieves, shrivels, shrivers, thievish, thrivers, vanished, vanisher, vanishes, vehicles, viperish, vixenish, yeshivah, yeshivas, yeshivot.
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