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hive

Pronunciation

Noun

hive (plural hives)

A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
- , Virgil's Georgics IV.10-13:
  ''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.''
The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene iii:
  When that the general is not like the hive, to whom the foragers shall all repair, what honey is expected?
A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Boadicea
  There the hive of Roman liars worship a gluttonous emperor-idiot.
(computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
- 2011, Samuel Phung, Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0
  For devices built with hive-based registry implementation, the registry data are broken into three different hives — the boot hive, system hive, and user hive.

Verb

hive (hives, present participle hiving; past and past participle hived)

(intransitive, entomology) To enter or possess a hive.
(intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
(transitive) To collect into a hive.
to hive a swarm of bees
(transitive) To store in a hive or similarly.
- Hiving wisdom with each studious year.
(intransitive) To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene v:
  SHYLOCK:
  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. […]
- 1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Martha Blount
  […] to get into warmer houses, and hive together in cities

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