Chive vs Hive - What's the difference?
chive | hive |
A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum , related to the onion.
(in plural chives ) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
A structure for housing a swarm of honeybees.
The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
* Tennyson
(computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
* 2006 , Jean Andrews, Fixing Windows XP (page 352)
* 2011 , Samuel Phung, Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0
(entomology) To enter or possess a hive.
To form a hive-like entity.
To collect into a hive.
To store in a hive or similarly.
* Byron
To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
As nouns the difference between chive and hive
is that chive is a perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion while hive is a structure for housing a swarm of honeybees.As a verb hive is
to enter or possess a hive.chive
English
Noun
(en noun)See also
* (Allium schoenoprasum) * (Allium schoenoprasum) * (chives) * * (Chinese chives) * scallion * shallot * spring onionExternal links
* (Chives)References
* ----hive
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Dryden)
- (Shakespeare)
- a wretched hive of scum and villainy
- the hive of Roman liars
- Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives
- For devices built with hive-based registry implementation, the registry data are broken into three different hives — the boot hive, system hive, and user hive.
Derived terms
* beehive * hivemind * mother-hive * superhive * hive fiveSee also
* apiaryVerb
(hiv)- to hive a swarm of bees
- Hiving wisdom with each studious year.
- (Alexander Pope)
