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When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a big issue, since a third of the food we eat comes from plants, I figured you couldn't tell the story of the bees without the story of the flowers and how they basically have evolved together for over 150 years.
Louie Schwartzberg

Meaning of "hive" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HIVE

Old English hӯf; related to Westphalian hüwe, Old Norse hūfr ship's hull, Latin cūpa barrel, Greek kupē, Sanskrit kūpa cave.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HIVE

hive  [haɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hive is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb hive in English.

WHAT DOES HIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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...

Definition of hive in the English dictionary

The first definition of hive in the dictionary is a structure in which social bees live and rear their young. Other definition of hive is a colony of social bees. Hive is also a place showing signs of great industry.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO HIVE

PRESENT

Present
I hive
you hive
he/she/it hives
we hive
you hive
they hive
Present continuous
I am hiving
you are hiving
he/she/it is hiving
we are hiving
you are hiving
they are hiving
Present perfect
I have hived
you have hived
he/she/it has hived
we have hived
you have hived
they have hived
Present perfect continuous
I have been hiving
you have been hiving
he/she/it has been hiving
we have been hiving
you have been hiving
they have been hiving
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I hived
you hived
he/she/it hived
we hived
you hived
they hived
Past continuous
I was hiving
you were hiving
he/she/it was hiving
we were hiving
you were hiving
they were hiving
Past perfect
I had hived
you had hived
he/she/it had hived
we had hived
you had hived
they had hived
Past perfect continuous
I had been hiving
you had been hiving
he/she/it had been hiving
we had been hiving
you had been hiving
they had been hiving
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will hive
you will hive
he/she/it will hive
we will hive
you will hive
they will hive
Future continuous
I will be hiving
you will be hiving
he/she/it will be hiving
we will be hiving
you will be hiving
they will be hiving
Future perfect
I will have hived
you will have hived
he/she/it will have hived
we will have hived
you will have hived
they will have hived
Future perfect continuous
I will have been hiving
you will have been hiving
he/she/it will have been hiving
we will have been hiving
you will have been hiving
they will have been hiving
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would hive
you would hive
he/she/it would hive
we would hive
you would hive
they would hive
Conditional continuous
I would be hiving
you would be hiving
he/she/it would be hiving
we would be hiving
you would be hiving
they would be hiving
Conditional perfect
I would have hive
you would have hive
he/she/it would have hive
we would have hive
you would have hive
they would have hive
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been hiving
you would have been hiving
he/she/it would have been hiving
we would have been hiving
you would have been hiving
they would have been hiving
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you hive
we let´s hive
you hive
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to hive
Past participle
hived
Present Participle
hiving
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HIVE


alive
əˈlaɪv
all-wheel-drive
ˌɔːlwiːlˈdraɪv
archive
ˈɑːkaɪv
arrive
əˈraɪv
beehive
ˈbiːˌhaɪv
belive
bɪˈlaɪv
Clive
klaɪv
deprive
dɪˈpraɪv
derive
dɪˈraɪv
dive
daɪv
drive
draɪv
five
faɪv
I´ve
aɪv
jive
dʒaɪv
overdrive
ˈəʊvəˌdraɪv
revive
rɪˈvaɪv
rive
raɪv
strive
straɪv
survive
səˈvaɪv
thrive
θraɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HIVE

hitless
hittable
hitter
Hittite
HIV
HIV virus
HIV-negative
HIV-positive
HIV-related
hive bee
hive dross
hive off
hiveless
hivelike
hiver
hives
hiveward
hivewards
hiya

WORDS THAT END LIKE HIVE

active
alternative
automotive
competitive
comprehensive
cooperative
creative
effective
exclusive
executive
expensive
extensive
give
in the negative
interactive
live
massive
native
negative
on the defensive

Synonyms and antonyms of hive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HIVE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hive» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of hive

Translation of «hive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HIVE

Find out the translation of hive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

蜂箱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

colmena
570 millions of speakers

English

hive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

छत्ता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خلية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

улей
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

colmeia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চাক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ruche
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sarang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bienenkorb
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ミツバチの巣箱
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

꿀벌통
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tổ ong
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஹைவ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोळे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kovan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

alveare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ula
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вулик
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stup
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κυψέλη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

miernes
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bikupa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bikube
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hive

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HIVE»

The term «hive» is very widely used and occupies the 7.497 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hive» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hive» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hive

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4 QUOTES WITH «HIVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hive.
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Nancy Lublin
I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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Louie Schwartzberg
When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a big issue, since a third of the food we eat comes from plants, I figured you couldn't tell the story of the bees without the story of the flowers and how they basically have evolved together for over 150 years.
3
Thomas Shepard
There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive.
4
Clay Shirky
The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIVE»

Discover the use of hive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Programming Hive
Need to move a relational database application to Hadoop? This comprehensive guide introduces you to Apache Hive, Hadoop’s data warehouse infrastructure.
Edward Capriolo, Dean Wampler, Jason Rutherglen, 2012
2
H.I.V.E.: The Higher Institute of Villainous Education
Swept away to a hidden academy for training budding evil geniuses, Otto, a brilliant orphan, Wing, a sensitive warrior, Laura, a shy computer specialist, and Shelby, an infamous jewel thief, plot to beat the odds and escape the prison known ...
Mark Walden, 2008
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Hive
Jimmy Hayes had a bad feeling the moment he arrived at Kharkhov Station and it had nothing to do with the cold. And when mummies were discovered in the mountains at the South Pole, he knew the cause of his bad feeling.
Tim Curran, 2005
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Langstroth's Hive and the Honey-Bee: The Classic Beekeeper's ...
This influential guide by "the father of modern beekeeping," originally published in 1853, constitutes the first descriptive treatise of modern bee management.
L. L. Langstroth, 2004
5
H.I.V.E. 7: Aftershock
Scheming, extorting, menacing and general evilness are nothing new in the world of villainy - indeed it's expected.
Mark Walden, 2011
6
Poetics of the Hive: Insect Metaphor in Literature
" --Thomas R. Edwards, executive editor of Raritan: A Quarterly Review A study to delight the passionate reader, Poetics of the Hive tells the story of the evolution of the insect metaphor from antiquity to the multicultural present.
Cristopher Hollingsworth, 2005
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The Wisdom of the Hive: the social physiology of honey bee ...
This book describes and illustrates the results of more than fifteen years of elegant experimental studies conducted by the author to investigate how a colony of bees is organized to gather its resources.
Thomas D Seeley, 2009
8
Hellstrom's Hive
First published in 1973, Frank Herbert's vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology have never been more evident than in this classic of science fiction.
Frank Herbert, 2011
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Earth Hive
An expedition is sent to the home planet of the aliens, in order to use them as the ultimate weapons system
Steve Perry, 1992
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Instant Apache Hive Essentials How-To
Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks.This book provides quick recipes for using Hive to read data in various formats, efficiently querying this data, and extending ...
Darren Lee, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hive is used in the context of the following news items.
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Wolfgang Buttress creating a buzz with Hive creation at Milan Expo …
Wolfgang Buttress is representing the UK with his Hive artwork at the world's fair, which he has linked to a real beehive in Nottinghamshire. «BBC News, Jul 15»
2
Dotcom's file-sharing hive Mega 'sues for copyright infringement …
A company founded by Kim Dotcom, the file-sharing website kingpin who is accused of mass copyright infringement, is reportedly suing ... «The Register, Jul 15»
3
Hive Talk Live: Hornets in Lin-now mode - At The Hive
Check Out Basketball Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with Hive Talk Live on BlogTalkRadio. Small at the hive minimal.15071. More from At The ... «At The Hive, Jul 15»
4
Beekeepers manage hive of activity - Business - The Boston Globe
The frames are then replaced in the hive along with a foundation, a sheet imprinted with a honeycomb pattern that the bees can build from. «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
5
Hornets earned mixed free agency grades - At The Hive
Will the addition of Nicolas Batum be enough to offset the loss of Gerald Henderson and Noah Vonleh? - Craig Mitchelldyer-USA TODAY ... «At The Hive, Jul 15»
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Views From the Hive: Why I'm Hyped for Future's “Dirty Sprite 2 …
The Future obsession is in full swing, and the question that many have is simply, "Why?" I have the answer because I'm a Future fan. «DJBooth.net, Jul 15»
7
Hive of activity as football club hosts annual open day
The Hive football ground, in Camrose Avenue, Edgware, will be buzzing with activity as both young and old will turn out for Barnet FC's annual ... «Harrow Times, Jul 15»
8
What #FutureHive Gets Wrong About Future | NOISEY
A good batch of Future Hive found their way into the fold via a love of CiBandz, and their first real opinion of his music came from Honest. «Noisey, Jul 15»
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Changming Liu Sells 4200 Shares of Aerohive Networks Stock (HIVE)
Aerohive Networks logo Aerohive Networks (NASDAQ:HIVE) Director Changming Liu sold 4,200 shares of the stock in a transaction that ... «WKRB News, Jul 15»
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Hive Minds, review: 'gimmicky' - Telegraph
Fiona Bruce enjoyed the chance to flex her funny muscles in the highbrow quiz show but the hive gimmick was overstretched, says Michael ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

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