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Definition: Honeycomb |
HoneycombNoun1. A framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees. Verb1. Carve a honeycomb pattern into; "The cliffs were honeycombed". 2. Penetrate thoroughly and into every part; "the revolutionaries honeycombed the organization". 3. Make full of cavities, like a honeycomb. 4. Mark with a honeycomb pattern. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "honeycomb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | Obstructions comprising passages in tiers resembling honey combs to dampen the turbulence of flow. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemical Industry | And foamed plastics are used extensively as core for sandwich construction, which consist of thin skins or facings separated by a thick low-density core material. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Honeycomb The hexagonal shape of the bees' cells is generally ascribed to the instinctive skill of the bee, but is simply the ordinary result of mechanical laws. Solitary bees always make circular cells; and without doubt those of hive bees are made cylindrical, but acquire their hexagonal form by mechanical pressure. Dr. Wollaston says all cylinders made of soft pliable materials become, hexagonal under such circumstances. The cells of trees are circular towards the extremity, but hexagonal in the centre of the substance; and the cellular membranes of all vegetables are hexagonal also. (See Ant.) Will Honcycomb. A fine gentleman. One of the members of the imaginary club from which the Spectator issued. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | Any substance, as cast iron, worm-eaten wood, etc., having cells suggesting a honeycomb; also applied to certain rock structures. (references) |
Physics | A grid of intersecting surfaces in a wind tunnel, designed to reduce large-scale disturbances and straighten the flow. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Langstroth frame of honeycomb
with honey in the upper left
and pollen in most
of the rest of the cellsA honeycomb is a mass of hexagonal wax cells built by honeybees in their nests to contain their larvae and stores of honey and pollen. It is essentially the furniture in the bees' home. Broodcombcomb becomes dark over time, because of the cocoons embedded in the cells, and the tracking of many feet. Honeycomb in the "supers" that is not allowed to be used for brood stays light colored.
Beekeepers may remove the entire honeycomb to harvest honey. The honey can then be removed from the comb by uncapping and extracting in a centrifugal machine. Fresh, new comb is sometimes sold and used intact as "comb honey", especially if the honey is being spread on bread rather than used in cooking or to sweeten tea. Some believe that this benefits one's physical and mental health.
Honeycomb is also the name of a kind of confectionary, which somewhat resembles a honeycomb. In New Zealand this is known instead as Hokey Pokey.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Honeycomb."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| ho | English | Honeycomb lung | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concavity | Noun: concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness; indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna; excavation, strip mine; trough; (furrow); honeycomb. |
Honeycomb (sponge) a. | |
Deterioration | Wreck, mere wreck, honeycomb, magni nominis umbra; jade, plug, rackabones, skate; tackey, tacky. |
Opening | Sieve, cullender, colander; cribble, riddle, screen; honeycomb. |
Sponge | Noun: sponge, honeycomb, network; frit, filter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Honeycomb |
| English words defined with "honeycomb": alveolate ♦ cavitied ♦ Favaginous, faveolate ♦ honeycombed ♦ Manyplies ♦ pitted ♦ radiator ♦ sponge cloth ♦ Wax moth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "honeycomb": assembler, bonding, ASSEMBLER, METAL BONDING ♦ BLOCKER, METAL BASE, BONDED STRUCTURES REPAIRER, bonder, rework and repair ♦ cavernous weathering, comb capper ♦ foam plug ♦ grecian honeycomb ♦ HONEY GRADER-AND-BLENDER, honey liquefier, honeycomb core, HONEYCOMB DECAPPER, honeycomb weathering ♦ Misnomers ♦ sandwich construction. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "honeycomb": Gopher. (references) |
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Screenplays | Daquiri Ice, Honeycomb Candy, Cocoa, Coconut, Jamocha Almond Fudge, Mocha Jamocha, Peanut Butter & Jelly, Cinnamon, Banana Mint (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; writing credit: William Rose) | |
Song Titles | HONEYCOMB (performing artist: Jimmy Rodgers ) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | View of Honeycomb WSA, Worland Field Office. Credit: Jerry Sintz. |  | Cellular structure of cork plant and cells of a honeycomb, with cork plant branch below. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Homer | Sweeter it [wrath] is by far than the honeycomb dripping with sweetness, and spreads through the hearts of men. |
Richard Steele | Will Honeycomb calls these overoffended ladies the outrageously virtuous. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | As an increasing number of cysts are formed, the lung takes on a honeycomb appearance. (references) | |
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| "Honeycomb" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Honeycomb" is used about 39 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 (singular) | 100% | 39 | 55,036 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "honeycomb". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Jarah | N/A | Biblical | Honeycomb |
| Noph | N/A | Biblical | Honeycomb |
| Shephi | N/A | Biblical | Honeycomb |
| Zophah | N/A | Biblical | Honeycomb |
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Expressions using "honeycomb": grecian honeycomb ♦ honeycomb check ♦ honeycomb core ♦ honeycomb grid ♦ honeycomb lung ♦ Honeycomb moth ♦ honeycomb slip ♦ honeycomb sponge a ♦ honeycomb stomach ♦ Honeycomb tetter ♦ honeycomb tripe. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "honeycomb": honeycomb-like, honeycomb-shaped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "honeycomb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | huall (comb), krimb (maggot, worm), gërryej (be corroded, be eroded, cave, chew, corrode, dredge, erode, gouge, hollow out, rasp, scoop out, scuff, tear, tear to pieces), fashuall. (various references) | |
Arabic | مغثر الوهر, عسل الزهر, إنخرب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шуплест (poriferous, spongy), с шестоъгълни шарки, клетъчна конструкция, клетъчен (cellular), восъчна пита, отливка с раковини, медена пита, порест (cellular, poriferous, porous, spongy), повърхност с шестоъгълни шарки. (various references) | |
Chinese | 蜂窝, 蜂房 (hive), 蜂巢 . (various references) | |
Czech | plástev medu. (various references) | |
Danish | honningtavle (comb, honey comb), honeycomb (honeycombed), voxtavle (comb, honey comb), vokstavle (comb, honey comb), vokskage (comb, honey comb, paraffin cake, paraffin cheese, wax cake), vaffel-væv, tavle (blackboard, comb, honey comb, shutter), sand-eller gruslomme, bikage (comb, honey comb), bicelle-udglatning. (various references) | |
Dutch | honingraat (comb, honey comb). (various references) | |
Esperanto | mielĉelaro. (various references) | |
Farsi | ارایش شش گوش خانه خانه کردن , شانه عسل . (various references) | |
Finnish | kenno (cell). (various references) | |
French | rayon de miel (honey comb). (various references) | |
German | wabe (comb, honey comb), honigwabe (comb, honey comb), bienenwabe (honey comb). (various references) | |
Greek | κηρήθρα (comb). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יערת דבש, חלת דבש. (various references) | |
Hungarian | méhsejt (cell). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sarang madu, sarang lebah (beehive). (various references) | |
Italian | favo (comb, favus). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蜂の巣 (beehive, hive). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はちのす (beehive, hive). (various references) | |
Korean | 벌집. (various references) | |
Manx | kere volley. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oneycombhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | favo de mel (comb), favo (comb, honey comb). (various references) | |
Romanian | umple de gãuri, ornament hexagonal, fagure de miere, bãşicuţã de aer, aşeza în fagure, în fagure. (various references) | |
Russian | сотовый. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | u obliku saća, saće. (various references) | |
Spanish | panal de miel (comb, honey comb, waffle), panal (comb, honey comb). (various references) | |
Swedish | vaxkaka (comb, honey comb, paraffin cake, paraffin cheese, wax cake). (various references) | |
Thai | รังผึ้ง (beehive, hive). (various references) | |
Turkish | petek şeklinde yapmak, petek, delik deşik etmek (riddle, riddle smb. with bullets, riddle with holes), delik açmak (bore, dig a hole, drill, hole, make a hole in, Pierce, ream, ream out, run through, slot, vent). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стільниковий, медовий стільник, зрешетити, продірявити, пористий (blown, mushy, perforate, perforated, poriferous, porous). (various references) | |
Welsh | dil me+l, crwybr (hoarfrost, mist). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cera, cerium, favo, favum, favus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 24, Verse 42 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oi de epedwkan autw icquoV optou meroV kai apo melissiou khriou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | At illi obtulerunt ei partem piscis assi et favum mellis |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And hig brohton him dæl gebræddes fisces and beobread; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thei proferden hym a part of a fisch rostid, and an hony combe. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And they gave him a pece of a broyled fisshe and of an hony combe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and a honey-comb. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And they gave him a bit of cooked fish. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 24, Verse 42 |
| Bulgarian | И дадоха му част от печена риба [и меден сок]. |
| Cebuano | Ug siya ilang gihatagan ug isda nga sinugba. |
| Chinese | 他 們 便 給 他 一 片 燒 魚 。 〔 有 古 卷 在 此 有 和 一 塊 蜜 房 〕 |
| Croatian | Oni mu pruže komad peèene ribe. |
| Danish | Og de gave ham et Stykke af en stegt Fisk. |
| Dutch | En zij gaven Hem een stuk van een gebraden vis, en van honigraten. |
| Finnish | Niin he antoivat hänelle palasen paistettua kalaa. |
| French | Ils lui présentèrent du poisson rôti et un rayon de miel. |
| German | Und sie legten ihm vor ein Stück von gebratenem Fisch und Honigseim. |
| Haitian Creole | Yo ofri l' yon moso pwason boukannen. |
| Hungarian | Õk pedig adának néki egy darab sült halat, és valami lépesmézet, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka memberikan kepada-Nya sepotong ikan goreng. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu diberinya Dia ikan goreng sepotong. |
| Italian | Gli offrirono una porzione di pesce arrostito; |
| Korean | 이 에 구 운 생 선 한 토 막 을 드 리 매 |
| Maori | Na ka hoatu e ratou ki a ia tetahi ika, he mea tunutunu, me te honi. |
| Norwegian | Da gav de ham et stykke av en stekt fisk og noget av en honningkake, |
| Portuguese | Então lhe deram um pedaço de peixe assado, |
| Rumanian | I-au dat o bucatq de pewte fript wi un fagur de miere. |
| Russian | пОЙ РПДБМЙ еНХ ЮБУФШ РЕЮЕОПК ТЩВЩ Й УПФПЧПЗП НЕДБ. |
| Shuar | Takui, namaknasha, Míshkincha Súsarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Entonces le dieron un pedazo de pescado asado. |
| Swahili | Wakampa kipande cha samaki wa kuokwa. |
| Swedish | Då räckte de honom ett stycke stekt fisk och något av en honungskaka; |
| Uma | Ratonu-miki bau' uru to ratunu. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "honeycomb": honeycombed, honeycombing, honeycombs. (additional references) | |
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"Honeycomb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Honeycombe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "honeycomb" (pronounced hu"nēkō'm) |
| 3 | -k ō' m | catacomb. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-h-m-n-o-o-y" | |
-2 letters: economy, homeboy, monoecy. | |
-3 letters: coombe, ochone. | |
-4 letters: bench, boche, boney, boomy, chemo, chyme, combe, combo, coney, cooey, coomb, ebony, homey, honey, hooey, hymen, money, mooch, moony. | |
-5 letters: bone, bony, boom, boon, boyo, chon, coho, comb, come, cone, cony, coon, cyme, ebon, echo, hobo, home, homo, homy, hone, hymn, meno, mono, mony, moon, nome, obey. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-h-m-n-o-o-y" | |
+1 letter: honeycombs. | |
+2 letters: honeycombed. | |
+3 letters: honeycombing. | |
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