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Definition of hive in English:

hive

noun hʌɪvhaɪv
  • 1A beehive.

    蜂窝,蜂箱

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I'm just trying to locate exactly where the hive's at.
    • The bees raise the virgin queens until mature at which time the beekeeper transfers them into a small hive called a nucleus.
    • If you overwinter your hive, don't harvest all the honey from the hive.
    • Enjoy nature and learn from the flight of birds, the green of the trees, the insects that carry life with them to the hive.
    • A swarm of bees arrived in Derrybeg last Sunday and decided to make a hive in a chimney pot in Third Avenue.
    • The brick was not dropped on top of the hive because there were height differences between the source colony hives.
    • A soldier ran up and fired shots at it until it dropped the hive and ran off into the forest.
    • Now, farmers have introduced more innovatively designed hives from Germany while still making the hive out of local wood.
    • In addition, nonhumans would own what they build, such as hives and nests.
    • Regardless, I scooped more up from the hive and scoffed them down.
    • He arrives with a special poison and pours it into the hive.
    • However, when fully ‘sealed over’ and ripened in the hive, the honey acquired its characteristic taste and flavour.
    • Whether you have your own hive or you pick up honey in the store, below are some ideas on how you can use this sweetener.
    • To restock the hive would cost around £50 and the entire crop of honey, worth about £140, is also useless.
    • Move slowly, especially through overhanging vegetation and brush, to avoid disturbing nests and hives.
    • The hum from the hive rises threateningly when it is disturbed.
    • In the winter they have no use, and are expelled from the hive.
    • When I throw this rock at the hive, we both have to run straight at the hive and scoop it up into the shirt.
    • Two market executive members - Ron Rudiak and Tom Fast each have a table selling honey, fresh from the hive.
    • They were transferred to a hive and then taken out to Kent.
    1. 1.1 The bees in a hive.
      蜂群
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But they are my responsibility, and it's always heartbreaking if a hive dies out.
      • I know Morrissey sounds like he's trying to swallow a hive of honeybees, but this is a fantastic live album.
      • The fly then emerges from its host, ready to infect other members of the hive.
      • Still the pod drew nearer to the hive and risked entering the swarm.
      • One hive, he said, could produce 300 hives in three years.
      • Such social hymenoptera may live together in nests or hives of many thousands of individuals, all descended form a single queen.
      • The state has 440,000 bee hives and beekeepers from other states drive their hives in each year to supplement them.
      Synonyms
      swarm, flock, flight, covey, drove, herd
    2. 1.2 A thing that has the domed shape of a beehive.
      蜂窝状物体
      Example sentencesExamples
      • So, we have put the nuc into a full-size hive and are crossing our fingers.
      • As if to literalize the longing of the title, a breathtakingly extended axle-like element joins a towering wheel to a tall woven hive shape.
  • 2A place in which people are busily occupied.

    繁忙之地

    the kitchen became a hive of activity

    厨房成了繁忙之地。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I only have to look around at the hive of inactivity that is my pad, to see that I am not worthy of a feature in Homes & Interiors.
    • Carrey's body, like the film, is a hive of infinite possibilities.
    • With the work complete just over a year ago, Airfield opened to the public and is now a hive of activity.
    • The studio has been transformed this morning into a hive of rabid shoe designers.
    • Back to the contemptible hive of infamy from which you came!
    • Another idea is to move the pelican crossing outside the garage to the east of the entrance because it is seen as a hive of anti-social behaviour.
    • It is a hive of creativity, recognized globally as a fashion capital.
    • Thanks to e-mail, the modern workplace is a hive of covert communication and surreptitious sociability.
    • I think I'll threaten to give myself the week off… just think of the hive of productivity I'd be then!
    • The downstairs bar is a hive of diversity, with shoppers, tradesmen, suits and tourists contributing to the sociable atmosphere.
    • A lot of people now don't bother going down to the communal area, when before it used to be a hive of life.
    • Jakarta's sprawling metropolis has become a close-knit hive of concern.
    • Wellstone sounded like righteous promise personified - and Minnesota like an idealist hive.
    • The house next door is for sale - again - and all I can foresee for the future is a hive of students who throw 24-hour-wrap-around parties.
    • It will rather be a hive of excitement and hospitality, music, song and dance, with four special events taking place.
    • For years now, R & B has been a hive of female empowerment.
    • Their student unions were a hive of heated political debate and the campaign headquarters for radical plots to change the world.
    • The phrase conjured up the image of a hive of busy accountants in green eyeshades, scouring the tax code for hidden exemptions.
    • Irish roads are a hive of activity as family members crisscross the countryside en route to family events.
    • The Meeting House, Ballitore, was a hive of industry on Sunday January 25, when our correspondent called.
verb hʌɪvhaɪv
[with object]
  • 1Place (bees) in a hive.

    蜂群

    smoke is used to subdue bees when taking and hiving a swarm
    Example sentencesExamples
    • However the bees hived over it have never seemed to thrive, and always appeared less active when compared to the other swarms hived at the same time.
    • However, in getting the bees hived, one may be charged with trespassing.
    1. 1.1no object (of bees) enter a hive.
      蜂群
      Example sentencesExamples
      • According to legend, the invading Tibetans were set upon by bees hiving in the nearby woods.
      • I have bees hiving between the siding and the studs by our side door.

Phrasal Verbs

  • hive something off

    • Separate something from a larger group or organization.

      the printing department was hived off in a management buyout
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If it can generate a return on its investments it could become self-funding, or be hived off as an independent investment company.
      • Thankfully, the leaky marine division has been hived off.
      • I hope the FA will look at their rules with a view to strengthening them to prevent their assets being hived off and sold in a property deal.
      • Authorities should aim at hiving off the two companies from the state coffers.
      • NHS workers whose jobs have been hived off to contractors frequently remain on much worse conditions than NHS staff.
      • The armed forces lost their permanent seats in parliament, and the police were hived off from the army.
      • The most likely outcome is for the worst brokerages to be hived off to asset management firms or handed to larger, better-run securities firms.
      • Allen's little book is a sober analysis of the issues and problems involved in hiving off a new Balmain Council.
      • For them to then start hiving them off is not fair for local businesses who rely on them for their customers to park in.
      • The logic was that police and prison officers could be freed-up for frontline duties if the job was hived off to a private company.
      • The paper's staff haven't taken too kindly to the way in which this internet offshoot has been hived off into a separate division.
      • A showpiece leisure centre and concert venue opened just 10 years ago in York could be flattened as part of a plan to hive it off to the private sector.
      • Much of the road powers are being hived off to Brussels anyway.
      • Staff at the Teesside works have been told the plant will be hived off.
      • They were reserved for local and national politicians, while business leaders were hived off to an economic and social committee.
      • Sometimes some of these administrative duties were hived off to others.
      • Part of GM's job reduction plan includes hiving off some components operations.
      • The authority's Building Maintenance Service is to be hived off to the Kier Group.
      • Parker said he believed the contractor had hived the work off to a sub-contractor who didn't have a demolition license.

Origin

Old English hȳf, of Germanic origin.

  • This Germanic word is probably related to Old Norse húfr ‘hull of a ship’ and Latin cupa ‘tub, cask’. Early hives were conical and made of straw.

Rhymes

alive, arrive, chive, Clive, connive, contrive, deprive, dive, drive, five, gyve, I've, jive, live, MI5, revive, rive, shrive, skive, strive, survive, swive, thrive

Definition of hive in US English:

hive

nounhīvhaɪv
  • 1A beehive.

    蜂窝,蜂箱

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A soldier ran up and fired shots at it until it dropped the hive and ran off into the forest.
    • In the winter they have no use, and are expelled from the hive.
    • They were transferred to a hive and then taken out to Kent.
    • The brick was not dropped on top of the hive because there were height differences between the source colony hives.
    • Regardless, I scooped more up from the hive and scoffed them down.
    • However, when fully ‘sealed over’ and ripened in the hive, the honey acquired its characteristic taste and flavour.
    • The hum from the hive rises threateningly when it is disturbed.
    • If you overwinter your hive, don't harvest all the honey from the hive.
    • To restock the hive would cost around £50 and the entire crop of honey, worth about £140, is also useless.
    • He arrives with a special poison and pours it into the hive.
    • Enjoy nature and learn from the flight of birds, the green of the trees, the insects that carry life with them to the hive.
    • Now, farmers have introduced more innovatively designed hives from Germany while still making the hive out of local wood.
    • Move slowly, especially through overhanging vegetation and brush, to avoid disturbing nests and hives.
    • A swarm of bees arrived in Derrybeg last Sunday and decided to make a hive in a chimney pot in Third Avenue.
    • The bees raise the virgin queens until mature at which time the beekeeper transfers them into a small hive called a nucleus.
    • I'm just trying to locate exactly where the hive's at.
    • Whether you have your own hive or you pick up honey in the store, below are some ideas on how you can use this sweetener.
    • Two market executive members - Ron Rudiak and Tom Fast each have a table selling honey, fresh from the hive.
    • When I throw this rock at the hive, we both have to run straight at the hive and scoop it up into the shirt.
    • In addition, nonhumans would own what they build, such as hives and nests.
    1. 1.1 The bees in a hive.
      蜂群
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The state has 440,000 bee hives and beekeepers from other states drive their hives in each year to supplement them.
      • The fly then emerges from its host, ready to infect other members of the hive.
      • Such social hymenoptera may live together in nests or hives of many thousands of individuals, all descended form a single queen.
      • One hive, he said, could produce 300 hives in three years.
      • I know Morrissey sounds like he's trying to swallow a hive of honeybees, but this is a fantastic live album.
      • But they are my responsibility, and it's always heartbreaking if a hive dies out.
      • Still the pod drew nearer to the hive and risked entering the swarm.
      Synonyms
      swarm, flock, flight, covey, drove, herd
    2. 1.2 A thing that has the domed shape of a beehive.
      蜂窝状物体
      Example sentencesExamples
      • So, we have put the nuc into a full-size hive and are crossing our fingers.
      • As if to literalize the longing of the title, a breathtakingly extended axle-like element joins a towering wheel to a tall woven hive shape.
  • 2A place in which people are busily occupied.

    繁忙之地

    the kitchen became a hive of activity

    厨房成了繁忙之地。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Meeting House, Ballitore, was a hive of industry on Sunday January 25, when our correspondent called.
    • Jakarta's sprawling metropolis has become a close-knit hive of concern.
    • The downstairs bar is a hive of diversity, with shoppers, tradesmen, suits and tourists contributing to the sociable atmosphere.
    • The phrase conjured up the image of a hive of busy accountants in green eyeshades, scouring the tax code for hidden exemptions.
    • With the work complete just over a year ago, Airfield opened to the public and is now a hive of activity.
    • Back to the contemptible hive of infamy from which you came!
    • Wellstone sounded like righteous promise personified - and Minnesota like an idealist hive.
    • Irish roads are a hive of activity as family members crisscross the countryside en route to family events.
    • The studio has been transformed this morning into a hive of rabid shoe designers.
    • For years now, R & B has been a hive of female empowerment.
    • The house next door is for sale - again - and all I can foresee for the future is a hive of students who throw 24-hour-wrap-around parties.
    • It will rather be a hive of excitement and hospitality, music, song and dance, with four special events taking place.
    • Carrey's body, like the film, is a hive of infinite possibilities.
    • A lot of people now don't bother going down to the communal area, when before it used to be a hive of life.
    • I only have to look around at the hive of inactivity that is my pad, to see that I am not worthy of a feature in Homes & Interiors.
    • It is a hive of creativity, recognized globally as a fashion capital.
    • Thanks to e-mail, the modern workplace is a hive of covert communication and surreptitious sociability.
    • Their student unions were a hive of heated political debate and the campaign headquarters for radical plots to change the world.
    • I think I'll threaten to give myself the week off… just think of the hive of productivity I'd be then!
    • Another idea is to move the pelican crossing outside the garage to the east of the entrance because it is seen as a hive of anti-social behaviour.
verbhīvhaɪv
[with object]
  • 1Place (bees) in a hive.

    蜂群

    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, in getting the bees hived, one may be charged with trespassing.
    • However the bees hived over it have never seemed to thrive, and always appeared less active when compared to the other swarms hived at the same time.
    1. 1.1no object (of bees) enter a hive.
      蜂群
      Example sentencesExamples
      • According to legend, the invading Tibetans were set upon by bees hiving in the nearby woods.
      • I have bees hiving between the siding and the studs by our side door.

Phrasal Verbs

  • hive something off

    • (especially in business) separate something from a larger group or organization, especially from public to private ownership.

      〈主英〉(尤指经营)划分出来,分离出来(尤指从公有变为私有)

      the weekly magazine hived off by the BBC

      从英国广播公司分立出来的周刊。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • They were reserved for local and national politicians, while business leaders were hived off to an economic and social committee.
      • For them to then start hiving them off is not fair for local businesses who rely on them for their customers to park in.
      • The authority's Building Maintenance Service is to be hived off to the Kier Group.
      • Part of GM's job reduction plan includes hiving off some components operations.
      • The most likely outcome is for the worst brokerages to be hived off to asset management firms or handed to larger, better-run securities firms.
      • Thankfully, the leaky marine division has been hived off.
      • Allen's little book is a sober analysis of the issues and problems involved in hiving off a new Balmain Council.
      • A showpiece leisure centre and concert venue opened just 10 years ago in York could be flattened as part of a plan to hive it off to the private sector.
      • The logic was that police and prison officers could be freed-up for frontline duties if the job was hived off to a private company.
      • Much of the road powers are being hived off to Brussels anyway.
      • I hope the FA will look at their rules with a view to strengthening them to prevent their assets being hived off and sold in a property deal.
      • Sometimes some of these administrative duties were hived off to others.
      • Staff at the Teesside works have been told the plant will be hived off.
      • Parker said he believed the contractor had hived the work off to a sub-contractor who didn't have a demolition license.
      • The paper's staff haven't taken too kindly to the way in which this internet offshoot has been hived off into a separate division.
      • If it can generate a return on its investments it could become self-funding, or be hived off as an independent investment company.
      • NHS workers whose jobs have been hived off to contractors frequently remain on much worse conditions than NHS staff.
      • Authorities should aim at hiving off the two companies from the state coffers.
      • The armed forces lost their permanent seats in parliament, and the police were hived off from the army.

Origin

Old English hȳf, of Germanic origin.

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