| 释义 |
hive
I. \ˈhīv\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English hive, heve, from Old English hȳf; akin to Old Norse hūfr hull of a ship, Latin cupa tub, cask, Greek kypellon cup, kypros, a measure for grain, Sanskrit kūpa hole, cave, Old English hēah high — more at high
1. : a container for housing honeybees now usually consisting of a base, a lower rectangular hive body containing removable frames for brood, one or more upper supers that provide room for the storage honey, and a weathertight cover — called also beehive; compare bee gum, skep
2. : the bees of one hive : a colony of bees
3. : something resembling a hive: as
a. obsolete : a head covering suggesting a plaited skep
b. : a dwelling place : a center of family life
< forced out of the family hive by the excess of hands and the deficiency of land — H.E. Scudder >
c. : a center of activity or a place swarming with busy occupants
< the teeming hive of a great railroad station >
< a hive of political unrest >
d. : a source or point of origin
< the hive from which these barbarians came lay far to the north >
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
transitive verb
1.
a. : to collect into, place in, or cause to enter a hive
< hived 7 swarms of wild bees >
b. : to shelter in or as if in a hive
< these rascals that the city hives >
2.
a. : to store up in a hive
< a strong colony in a good season may hive 100 pounds of honey >
b. : to gather and accumulate for future need : lay up in store
< why did they penuriously hive and distribute water — Norman Douglas >
— sometimes used with up or away
< hiving away the extra dollars >
intransitive verb
1.
a. of bees : to enter and take possession of a hive
< the swarm hived readily >
b. : to reside or gather like bees in close association
< the multitudes that hive in city apartments >
2. : to secrete oneself or shut oneself up — usually used with up
< hiving up in an old camp to sit out the storm >
III. noun
(-s)
Etymology: back-formation from hives
: an urticarial wheal : a lesion of hives |