hive
English
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
Noun
hive (plural hives)
- A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
- Dryden, 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.
- Dryden, Virgil's Georgics IV.10-13:
- The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
- 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?
- Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene iii:
- A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
- Tennyson, Boadicea:
- There the hive of Roman liars worship a gluttonous emperor-idiot.
- Tennyson, Boadicea:
- (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.
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Translations
structure for housing a swarm of honeybees — see beehive
bees of one hive
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place swarming with busy occupants
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Verb
hive (third-person singular simple present hives, present participle hiving, simple 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.
- Byron
- Hiving wisdom with each studious year.
- Byron
- (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. […]
- Pope
- […] to get into warmer houses, and hive together in cities
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene v:
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