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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hive
I.noun
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▪ Brimscombe Port was once a hive of activity but has now largely disappeared.
▪ I walked over to the hive, which was near the house, at the edge of the woods.
▪ Is a family like a hive?
▪ Life in a hive can become quite gothic.
▪ When the successful foragers arrived at the hive, many danced to indicate the car park.
II.verb
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▪ If management does decide to hive up Target's trade to Newco, it will have tax implications as follows.
▪ It is part of a growing trend for television contractors to hive off their advertising sales.
▪ It was as if one death was not enough for me, but I had to hive a double death.
▪ Male speaker We're not hiving off our responsibilities.
▪ Most of the jobs will disappear through hiving off divisions and seeking voluntary redundancies.
▪ The move to hive off the bulk of the retailing shops has, apparently, saved over £6m.
▪ The original intention was to hive off assembly operations to sub-contractors.
▪ This is another result of the Government's policy of hiving off of core services.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hive

Hive \Hive\, v. 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

Hive \Hive\, n. [OE. hive, huve, AS. h?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 (Zo["o]l.), the honeybee.

Hive

Hive \Hive\, v. i. To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
--Pope.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hive

Old English hyf "beehive," from Proto-Germanic *hufiz (cognates: Old Norse hufr "hull of a ship"), from PIE *keup- "round container, bowl" (cognates: Sanskrit kupah "hollow, pit, cave," Greek kypellon "cup," Latin cupa "tub, cask, vat"). Figurative sense of "swarming, busy place" is from 1630s. As a verb, of bees, etc., "to form themselves into a hive," c.1400; "to put bees in a hive," mid-15c.

Wiktionary
hive

n. 1 A structure for housing a swarm of honeybees. 2 The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees. 3 A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd. 4 (context computing Microsoft Windows English) A section of the registry. vb. 1 (context intransitive entomology English) To enter or possess a hive. 2 (context intransitive English) To form a hive-like entity. 3 (context transitive English) To collect into a hive. 4 (context transitive English) To store in a hive or similarly. 5 (context intransitive English) To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.

WordNet
hive
  1. n. a teeming multitude

  2. a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees [syn: beehive]

  3. a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree [syn: beehive]

hive
  1. v. store, like bees; "bees hive honey and pollen"; "He hived lots of information"

  2. move together in a hive or as if in a hive; "The bee swarms are hiving"

  3. gather into a hive; "The beekeeper hived the swarm"

Wikipedia
Hive

A hive may refer to a beehive, an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species live and raise their young.

Hive may also refer to:

Hive (game)

Hive is a bug-themed tabletop game, designed by John Yianni and published in 2001 by Gen42 Games. The object of Hive is to capture the opponent's queen bee by completely surrounding it, while avoiding the capture of one's own queen. Hive is an abstract strategy game.

Hive shares elements of both tile-based games and board games. It differs from other tile-based games in that the tiles, once placed, can then be moved to other positions according to various rules, much like chess pieces. Thus, the game has mechanics comparable to an abstract strategy board game and is marketed in that genre. It does not fit the classical definition, however, as there is no gameboard involved; the pieces are simply placed on some relatively flat surface.

HIVE (ISP)

HIVE was the third-largest telecommunications company in Iceland, founded in 2004. It provided broadband ADSL connections and a VoIP telephone system as well as Wi-Fi fixed and mobile wireless access. In 2008, HIVE merged with SKO., another telecommunications company, and together they took up the name Tal.

Tal's Internet connection is provided via contract through Vodafone, as their traffic is routed through Metronet.is, which redirects to a service selection page provided by Vodafone. Evidence is provided in image to right.

HIVE (virtual environment)

The H.I.V.E. (Huge Immersive Virtual Environment) is a joint research project between the departments of Psychology and Computer Science and Systems Analysis at Miami University. The project is funded by a grant from the U.S. Army Research Office and is currently the world's largest virtual environment in terms of navigable floor area (currently over 1200m). The goal of the research project is to conduct experiments in human spatial cognition.

Hive (song)

"Hive" is a song by American rapper Earl Sweatshirt, featuring Casey Veggies and Vince Staples, and the third single from his debut studio album Doris. The writing, recording, production and engineering of the track took place at Syd tha Kyd and Matt Martians' old home, and it was recorded in three hours. The lyrics of the slow- tempo song describes the rapper's image, who says that he wants his critics and interns to call him nothing less than a synonym of menace. Its music video was directed by Hiro Murai.

Hive (comics)
For the DC Comics criminal organization, see H.I.V.E.

Hive is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Hive was an experiment made to physically embody the ideals of Hydra, the fictional terrorist group. The entity is composed of untold numbers of genetically-engineered parasites.

Hive appears in the third season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. where he is an ancient Inhuman possessing the body of deceased character Grant Ward, with various superpowered abilities. Hive is primarily portrayed by Brett Dalton.

Usage examples of "hive".

In a few minutes the hated stench of the aldehyde would have driven any bees still hanging about the comb down to the next level in the hive.

Before the apathetic, confused militiamen could step up to the boy, the whole deck became a buzzing hive.

The reason the honey was so universally prized did not lie in the flowers the bees visited, but in the fact that Hymettan apiarists never smoked their hives when gathering the honey.

This development was secret however, and the wealth of its power was given over solely to TwoPi, the most numerous and advanced of the Hives, and to Arachno Buckminster Mouze, a physicist - if such a term could encompass as many spheres of hard science as could be imagined.

For the next few hours the Biter was a veritable hive, which set the men a-grumbling, sure enough.

Liethe hive at Kaiel-hontokae had been built within the buhrstone walls of an old whisky cellar.

My very heart rose when I saw the bull-dog fellows clambering up the breach with their pikes at the trail, and never quavering in their psalm-tune, though the bullets sung around them as thick as bees in the hiving time.

His face appeared to be swollen with a disabling case of the hives, large round lumps from forehead to chin and ear to ear, and there were long, diagonal welts, too, that burned an angry red against his pale skin.

The piggies were not a hive mind, they were not the buggers, and Ender Wiggin had to know why they had done what they did.

The cutting of the hive out of the haldu tree with his small axe had probably taken him two hours or more, and he had got badly stung in the process, for his hands were swollen and one eye was nearly closed, but he said nothing about this and to have commented on it would have embarrassed him.

If words are invented for these myriad hedonic delights, then people will talk about them and enjoy them -- a turn of events which Christian-Marxist hive establishments could not tolerate.

And perhaps when he found the truth, and spoke in the clear voice that she had loved in the Hive Queen and the Hegemon, perhaps that would free her from the blame that burned her to the heart.

Until she found the Hive Queen and the Hegemon, as everyone eventually did, and knew that the author of that book was a human to whom she dared reveal herself.

I thought that when I called, the author of the Hive Queen and the Hegemon would come.

Hive Queen and the Hegemon and imagine that its author could bring comfort?