beehive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːhaɪv/
rhymes: -iːhaɪv
Forms: form: beehives
form: bee-hive
Etymology: From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive.
Senses: synonyms: hive
glosses: A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live.
Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.
synonyms: hive
hive
apiary
glosses: A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live.
A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.
synonyms: hive of activity
glosses: Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
synonyms: B-52
glosses: A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.
examples: text: A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A particular style of hat.
examples: text: By the time it was over, Stone had been blown thirty feet through the air by a beehive round as he was running across a field, knocked out by the concussion of the blast.
ref: 2004, Martin Torgoff, “Next Stop is Vietnam”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
examples: text: Brian Small said that the Minister could not 'hide in the beehive any longer'
ref: 2004, Nicholas Tarling, International Students in New Zealand, →ISBN, page 114:
text: In New Zealand, this approach is taken one step forward in that Ministers physically sit together up in the beehive, as their building is known, rather than being based in the Departments.
ref: 2010, David Halpern, The Hidden Wealth of Nations, →ISBN, page 216:
text: As with other major buildings the beehive demonstrated the need for a standardized building drawing practice which could be applied — and understood
ref: 1977, New Zealand Libraries - Volumes 40-42, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: Alternative form of Beehive.
examples: text: By the way, what happens to a beehive which is under attack by one or two gliders such as pictured:
ref: 1989 December 22, Norbert Roestel, “CA-LETTER”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: Alternatively, in many cases the debris can be suppressed by perturbing the debris with a passing spaceship before it stabilizes into the beehive or loaf.
ref: 1992 October 22, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 6a)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: Unfortunately, a beehive (a common six cell still life) was also created close to the block, and its position made it impossible to eliminate with conventional methods using still lifes (anything placed to destroy it would be damaged by earlier activity).
ref: 1996 November 16, Paul Callahan, “Still-life glider reflector found”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A diagram showing where balls have passed the batter, used in analysis.
Derived terms: beehive of activity
beehive quern
beehiver
beehive shelf
beehive tomb
beehiving
Beyhive
Related terms: bee
hive