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- Dictionaryhive/hīv/
noun
- 1. a beehive.
- 2. a place in which people are busily occupied: "the kitchen became a hive of activity"
verb
- 1. place (bees) in a hive: "smoke is used to subdue bees when taking and hiving a swarm"
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The meaning of HIVE is a container for housing honeybees. How to use hive in a sentence.
a place where bees live, esp. a beehive (= container), or the group of bees living there. (Definition of hive from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of hive. hive. Everything from genes, cells, and organisms to hives, demes, and possibly entire species. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
Hive definition: a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive. . See examples of HIVE used in a sentence.
A hive can be a home for bees. It’s also a whole bunch of something moving around — like a hive of eager students — which is related to the fact that so many bees live in a hive. The word hive is most recognizable as a place where bees live, but it can be a verb that means to move together as one, like a swarm of bees.
Hives is a condition in which patches of your skin become red and very uncomfortable and itchy.
n. 1. a. A structure for housing domesticated honeybees. b. A nest built by wild or feral bees. c. A colony of bees living in such a structure or nest. 2. A place swarming with activity. v. hived, hiv·ing, hives. v.tr. 1. To collect into a hive. 2. To store (honey) in a hive. 3. To store up; accumulate. v.intr. 1. To enter and occupy a beehive. 2.
a structure where bees live, either built by people or made by the bees themselves : Bees naturally attack anything entering their hives. Alina555/E+/GettyImages. [ + sing/pl verb, C ] a group of bees living together in a hive: The varroa mite is a tiny insect that infects bees and eventually kills whole hives. Fewer examples.
