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hive

/haɪv/

hivenoun

hives

/haɪv/

Translations

улей

The beekeeper checked the hive for honey.

Пчеловод проверил улей на наличие меда.

скопление

The city was a hive of activity during the festival.

Город был скоплением активности во время фестиваля.

Additional translations

гнездо

роение

Definitions

A structure made by bees for the purpose of housing their colony and storing honey.

The beekeeper carefully inspected the hive to ensure the bees were healthy.

A place swarming with activity, often used metaphorically to describe a busy or bustling environment.

The office was a hive of activity as the team prepared for the product launch.

A group of bees living together in a hive.

The hive was thriving, with thousands of bees working together in harmony.

(usually plural “hives”) An outbreak of swollen, itchy welts on the skin; urticaria.

She broke out in hives after eating shellfish.

Synonyms

hiveverb

hived

Past Simple

hived

Past Participle

hiving

Gerund

/haɪv/

Transitive and intransitive verb: to place bees in a hive, to store away, or (of bees) to enter a hive.

Definitions

To place (bees) in a hive.

The apiarist hived the new colony before dusk.

To store or lay up for future use; to hoard.

She quietly hived away a portion of her earnings each month.

(Of bees) To enter a hive or form a swarm.

The bees hived in the hollow trunk when the weather turned cool.

Synonyms

spin off

set aside

hiveadjective

Used attributively to describe something relating to a beehive or resembling the collective activity of bees.

Definitions

Relating to a beehive or resembling the collective, organized activity of bees.

The startup fostered a hive mentality among its developers.

hiveproper noun

Definitions

An open-source data warehouse and SQL query system built on top of Hadoop, officially called Apache Hive.

Many companies use Hive to run large-scale analytics on their data.