Behave vs Beehive - What's the difference?
behave | beehive |
(label) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
* Bible, ii. 21
(label) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner;
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.iii:
(label) To act in a polite or proper way.
An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis ) live and raise their young.
A man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey.
(figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
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. Also, a style of hat.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
* 2005 , Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, page 179)
As a verb behave
is to conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.As a noun beehive is
an enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young.As a proper noun Beehive is
the common name for the executive wing of the New Zealand parliament buildings.behave
English
Verb
- those that behaved themselves manfully
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- He did behave his anger ere 'twas spent.
- who his limbs with labours, and his mind / Behaues with cares, cannot so easie mis.
Derived terms
* behave oneselfExternal links
* * 1000 English basic wordsbeehive
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=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,
- 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.