Hive

Definitions: Hive

Hive

Noun

1. A teeming multitude.

2. A man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees.

3. A structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree.

Verb

1. Store honey or pollen, as of bees.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references)

HIVE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Hive

Abode

Nest, nidus, snuggery; arbor, bower; lair, den, cave, hole, hiding place, cell, sanctum sanctorum, aerie, eyrie, eyry, rookery, hive; covert, resort, retreat, perch, roost; nidification; kala jagah.

Husbandry

Menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden; bear pit; aviary, apiary, alveary, beehive; hive; aquarium, fishery; duck pond, fish pond.

Life

Hive nine lives like a cat.

Location

Inhabit; (be present); domesticate, colonize; take root, strike root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down; settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's horses at; keep house.

Multitude

Noun: multitude; numerous; Adjective: numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion; (plenty); legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd; (assemblage); lots; all in the world and his wife.

Workshop

Hive, hive of industry; nursery; hothouse, hotbed; kitchen; mint, forge, loom; dock, dockyard; alveary; armory; laboratory, lab, research institute; refinery; cannery; power plant; beauty parlor;beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf; foundry, foundery; furnace; vineyard.

Crosswords: Hive

Norwegian (fling).

Don't worry, the bee hive is nature's pinata! (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz K�fer)

I don't think you should hit that bee hive! (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz K�fer)

So, if I decide to waiver my chance to be one of the hive (Drive; performing artist: Incubus)

The Flower and the Hive (1961)

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Books

• A Hive for the Honeybee (reference)

• A Hive of Suspects: An Irish Village Mystery (reference)

• Earth Hive (reference)

• Hive (reference)

• Hive Management: A Seasonal Guide for Beekeepers (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Inside The Hive (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Doctor Who - The Leisure Hive (reference)

• Hive Splitting (Bee Keeper's Educational Series) (reference)

• Nova: Tales From the Hive (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hive (reference)

• Honey in the Hive (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• The Hive (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Entomologist Craig Abel introduces a hive of bumblebees into a field cage for controlled pollination of zinnias. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

For centuries, beekeeping has been a traditional part of Mexican agriculture and a reliable source of income in rural areas. Scientists in the United States have closely followed the arrival of Africanized honey bees and two species of parasitic mites that have created hive management problems and reduced honey production. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Bee Hive and Mt. Aberdeen, Alberta, Canada.Credit: Library of Congress.

Bee Hive department store, business in Patchogue, Long Island. Cradle corner.Credit: Library of Congress.

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The hive of joy opened, and each one brought her honey.

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Expressions using "hive": a hive of industry ♦ hive away ♦ Hive bee ♦ hive exit ♦ hive nine lives like a cat ♦ hive of activity ♦ hive off ♦ hive up. Additional references.

Beginning with "hive": hive-down, hive-dwellers, hive-like, hive-off, hive-race, hive-turned-fortress, hive-up.

Ending with "hive": bee-hive, reef-hive, upper-hive.

Albanian

zgjua (apiary, beehive), vend që zien nga njerëzit, rrojmë ngucur, rezervoj (bespeak, book, earmark, engage, lay in, reserve), luzmë (horde, swarm), koshere, fus në zgjua. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قفير خلية نحل (stand), ‏جمع فى قفير, ‏دخل كالنحل. (various references)

Basque

abaraska. (various references)

Blackfoot

naamooyis. (various references)

Bulgarian 

рояк (flight, regiment, swarm), рой (cluster), трупам (cluster, congregate, gather, heap, lay up, pile, roll up, run, run up, settle, shovel, store, treasure up), кошер (beehive, kosher), влизам (bob in, come in, enter, get in, get into, go, go in, incur, inure, pass in, pass into, pull in, put in, step in, turn in, walk in), мравуняк (ant-heap, anthill, formicary), живея в общество, правя мед, прибирам (gather, get in, house, pack away, pouch, pound, put away, put up, remove, retract, round up, take in, truss, unship). (various references)

Chinese 

蜂房 (honeycomb). (various references)

Czech

vèelstvo, roj vèel, úl (beehive). (various references)

Danish

stade (bee hive, beehive, bee-hive, phase, stage), bistade (apiary, bee hive, bee hive stand, bee yard, beehive, bee-hive, beehouse), bikube (apiary, bee hive, bee hive stand, bee yard, beehive, bee-hive, beehouse). (various references)

Dutch

korf (basket, bee hive, beehive, bee-hive, box, container, eel pot, fish pot, jug, press cage, spinner basket, vessel), kast (bee hive, beehive, bee-hive, cabinet, case, casing, closet, crank chamber, crankcase, cupboard, frame, gear case, housing, locker, safety guard, sideboard, sump), bijenstok (bee hive, beehive, bee-hive), bijenkorf (bee hive, beehive, bee-hive). (various references)

Farsi 

مرکزتجمع , کندو (Apiary, Beehive), اندوختن (Accumulate, Acquire, Pile, Reserve, Rollup, Save, Store), درکندوجمع کردن . (various references)

Finnish

mehiläispesä (bee hive, beehive, bee-hive). (various references)

French

ruche (bee hive). (various references)

German

bienenstock (apiary, bee hive, bee hive stand, bee yard, beehive, bee-hive, beehouse), bienenkorb (bee hive, beehive, bee-hive, skept), beute (accession, acquisition, asset, bag, bee hive, beehive, bee-hive, booties, booty, catch, haul, kill, loot, prey, quarry, spoils, swag). (various references)

Greek 

κυψέλη (bee hive, beehive, bee-hive, cell, compartment, jack, seed cell, shell, socket). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקום �"ומ�" עוב�"ים חרוצים (a hive of industry). (various references)

Hungarian

kaptár (apiary, beehive), rajzó tömeg, nyüzsgés (bustle, moseying), méhraj, méhkas (apiary, beehive), kas (body, carriage), hangyaboly (ant hill, anthill, formicary). (various references)

Indonesian

sarang untuk lebah. (various references)

Italian

alveare (apiary, bee hive, bee hive stand, bee yard, beehive, bee-hive, beehouse), arnia (bee hive, beehive, bee-hive, honey body, super). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

蜂巣 (beehive), 蜂の巣 (beehive, honeycomb), 巣箱 (nest box). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すば�" (nest box), ほうそう (beehive, broadcast, broadcasting, fragrant herb, lawyer, legal profession, packing, seeing an emperor off, smallpox, wrapping), はちのす (beehive, honeycomb). (various references)

Korean 

꿀벌통 (hives). (various references)

Manx

shelleig (beehive), kishaney, kishan shellan, goll ayns shelleig. (various references)

Norwegian

bikube (beehive). (various references)

Occitan

bornat. (various references)

Pig Latin

ivehay

Portuguese

hitita, multidão (accumulation, cloud, cluster, concourse, confluence, coven, crew, crowd, flock, heap, herd, horde, legion, many, mass, multitude, parade, people, pile, popular, rabble, ruck, shoal, swarm, throng), enxame (nest, swarm), colocar na colméia, colmeia (bee hive, beehive, bee-hive), colméia (apiary, beehive, honeycomb), armazenar no cortiço. (various references)

Romanian

trãi la un loc, stup (beehive), se înapoia la stup, roi (cloud, cluster, swarm), pune albinele în stup, mulţime (accumulation, army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, crowd, dozen, drove, fifty, flock, forest, generality, heap, herd, host, huddle, lashing, manifold, mass, mob, multitude, muster, number, Peck, pile, plenty, populace, press, quantity, rabble, ream, shoal, sight, squash, stack, swarm, throng), locui cu mai multe persoane, furnicar (ant-bear, formicary, host, swarm, troop), albinele dintr-un stup. (various references)

Russian 

улей (beehive), рой пчел, роиться (swarm), запасать (lay up, provide, reserve, store), людской муравейник. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

staviti u košnicu, prihvatiti (accept, adopt, go for), košnica (apiary, bee hive). (various references)

Spanish

colmena (bee hive, beehive, bee-hive). (various references)

Swedish

bikupa (apiary, bee hive, beehive, bee-hive). (various references)

Thai

รังผึ้ง (beehive, honeycomb). (various references)

Turkish

topluluk (army, cohort, colony, community, company, corps, coterie, crowd, ensemble, gathering, group, herd, knot, party, push, set, society, troop), toplu olarak yaşamak, toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), kovanda toplamak, kovana koymak, kovana girmek, kovan (barrel, beehive, case, expulsive, shell, snout, socket), kalabalık (army, assemblage, cohort, concourse, congested, congestion, cram, crop, crowd, crowded, crush, drove, flock, gaggle, gathering, horde, host, huddle, legion, mob, multitude, multitudinous, populous, press, regiment, rush hour, shoal, spate, squash, throng, thronged, wilderness), istiflemek (garner, hive up, pack, stock up), arı kovanı gibi yer, arı kovanı (apiary, beehive, skep). (various references)

Ukranian 

сажати у вулик, рій бджіл (swarm), роїтися (swarm), вулик (beehive), запасати мед. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tổ ong (beehive), bầy đ� n lúc nhúc vật hình tổ ong chỗ đông đúc �"n � o náo nhiệt, đõ ong đám đông. (various references)

Welsh

cwch (beehive, boat). (various references)

cavea. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hive": hived, hiveless, hives. (additional references)

Words ending with "hive": archive, beehive, chive, shive. (additional references)

Words containing "hive": archived, archives, beehives, beshiver, beshivered, beshivering, beshivers, chives, shiver, shivered, shiverer, shiverers, shivering, shivers, shivery, shives. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahive, aive, Dhivehi, haive, haiver, hava, havb, havbe, havce, Havea, havef, havek, Havet, havex, havge, havi, havo, heev, heeve, heva, heve, Hevea, hevel, hevi, hibe, hice, hif, hife, hige, hije, Hile, hinee, hinve, hiv, Hiva, hivel, hiven, Hiver, hivet, hivey, hivi, hivin, hivne, hivo, Hivolt, hivy, hixe, hize, hovei, hovet, hovo, huve, hv, hve, hvem, hvid, hvis, hvo, hye, hyv, hyve, hyved, Hyvot, ihave, Ihf, Ihihe, ohive, thive, whive. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hie, vie.

-2 letters: eh, he, hi.

+1 letter: chive, hived, hives, shive.

+2 letters: chives, elvish, mikveh, shavie, shiver, shives, shrive, thieve, thrive, vahine.

+3 letters: achieve, archive, beehive, ceviche, chervil, chevied, chevies, cheviot, chivied, chivies, dervish, eightvo, evanish, heavier, heavies, heavily, heaving, helving, inveigh, khedive, mikvehs, peevish, seviche, shavies, shivers, shivery, shrieve, shrived, shrivel, shriven, shriver, shrives, thieved, thieves, thrived, thriven, thriver, thrives, vahines, vehicle, vichies, yeshiva.

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