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Webster 1913 Edition

Hive

Hive

,
Noun.
[OE.
hive
,
huve
, AS.
h[GREEK]fe
.]
1.
A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.
Dryden.
2.
The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
Shak.
3.
A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
The
hive
of Roman liars.
Tennyson.
Hive bee
(Zool.)
,
the honeybee.

Hive

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Hived
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Hiving
.]
1.
To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive;
as, to
hive
a swarm of bees
.
2.
To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.
Hiving
wisdom with each studious year.
Byron.

Hive

,
Verb.
I.
To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
Pope.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hive

HIVE

, n.
1.
A box, chest or kind of basket for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honey-bees. It is made of boards, straw or other materials.
2.
A swarm of bees; or the bees inhabiting a hive.
3.
A company or society together, or closely connected. [Unusual.]

HIVE

,
Verb.
T.
To collect into a hive; to cause, to enter a hive; as, to hive bees.
1.
To contain; to receive, as a habitation, or place of deposit.
Where all delicious sweets are hived.

HIVE

,
Verb.
I.
To take shelter or lodging together; to reside in a collective body.

Definition 2024

hive

hive

See also: hivé and híve

English

Noun

hive ‎(plural hives)

  1. A structure for housing a swarm of honeybees.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
  2. The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
  3. A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
    a wretched hive of scum and villainy
    • Tennyson
      the hive of Roman liars
  4. (computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
    • 2006, Jean Andrews, Fixing Windows XP (page 352)
      Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives […]
    • 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.

Derived terms

See also

Translations

Verb

hive ‎(third-person singular simple present hives, present participle hiving, simple past and past participle hived)

  1. (intransitive, entomology) To enter or possess a hive.
  2. (intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
  3. (transitive) To collect into a hive.
    to hive a swarm of bees
  4. (transitive) To store in a hive or similarly.
    • Byron
      Hiving wisdom with each studious year.
  5. (intransitive) To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Alexander Pope to this entry?)

Derived terms

Etymology

From Middle English hyfe, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-Germanic *hūbī (compare Dutch huif ‎(“beehive”), Danish dialect huv ‎(“ship’s hull”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- ‎(“water vessel”) (compare Latin cūpa ‎(“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη ‎(kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον ‎(kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप ‎(kū́pa, “cave”)), from *kew- ‎(“to bend, curve”). The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see .

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haɪv/
  • Rhymes: -aɪv

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