beehive
see also: Beehive
Pronunciation
Beehive
Noun
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see also: Beehive
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbiːhaɪv/
beehive (plural beehives)
- An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young.
- A man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey.
- (figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
- 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.
- A particular style of hat.
- A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
- 2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, page 179)
- 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.
- 2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, page 179)
- (nonstandard) Alternative form of Beehive#English|Beehive
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life configuration with a rounded appearance.
- (home of bees): hive, skep
- (man-made structure): hive, apiary
- (busy workplace): hive of activity
- (hairstyle): B-52
- French: ruche
- German: Bienenstaat, Bienenstock
- Italian: alveare, arnia
- Portuguese: colmeia
- Russian: у́лей
- Spanish: colmena
- French: ruche
- German: Bienenstock, Bienenkorb
- Italian: arnia
- Portuguese: colmeia, colméia (Brazil), cortiço
- Russian: у́лей
- Spanish: colmena
- French: ruche, fourmilière
- Italian: alveare, formicaio
- Russian: мураве́йник
- French: (informal) choucroute
- German: Beehive-Frisur, B-52-Frisur
- Italian: (informal) cofana
- Spanish: beehive, colmena
beehive (beehives, present participle beehiving; past and past participle beehived)
- (rare, transitive) To fill (a place) with busy activity.
- 1958, T. S. Bawa, Jawaharlal Nehru, Nehru's India: An Analytical Study (page 25)
- 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.
- 1958, T. S. Bawa, Jawaharlal Nehru, Nehru's India: An Analytical Study (page 25)
Beehive
Noun
beehive (plural beehives)
- (Mormonism) A 12- to 13-year-old participant in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.
- Spanish: abejita
- (NZ, informal) The executive wing of the New Zealand parliament buildings.
- (by extension) New Zealand government.
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