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Dive vs Hive - What's the difference?

dive | hive |

In transitive terms the difference between dive and hive

is that dive is to explore by diving; to plunge into while hive is to store in a hive or similarly.

As verbs the difference between dive and hive

is that dive is to swim under water while hive is to enter or possess a hive.

As nouns the difference between dive and hive

is that dive is a jump or plunge into water while hive is a structure for housing a swarm of honeybees.

dive

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) diven, duven, from the merger of (etyl) . See also (l), (l).

Verb

  • To swim under water.
  • To jump into water head-first.
  • * Whately
    • It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them.
  • To descend sharply or steeply.
  • (especially with in ) To undertake with enthusiasm.
    • She dove right in and started making improvements.
  • (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
  • To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
    • (Hooker)
  • To explore by diving; to plunge into.
  • * Denham
    • The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame.
  • * Emerson
    • He dives the hollow, climbs the steeps.
  • (figurative) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
    • (South)
    Usage notes
    The past tense dove'' is found chiefly in North American English, where it is used alongside the regular (and earlier) ''dived'', with regional variations; in British English ''dived'' is the standard past tense, ''dove'' existing only in some dialects. As a past participle, ''dove'' is relatively rare. (Compare ''Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary''; ''The American Heritage Dictionary''; ''The Cambridge Guide to English Usage )
    Related terms
    * scuba diving * duck dive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A jump or plunge into water.
  • A swim under water.
  • A decline.
  • (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
  • (aviation) Aerial descend with the nose pointed down.
  • (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
    • Related terms
    * divebomb * nosedive * swandive/swan-dive/swan dive

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl); see diva.

    Noun

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs ----

    hive

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A structure for housing a swarm of honeybees.
    • (Dryden)
  • The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
    • a wretched hive of scum and villainy
  • * Tennyson
    • the hive of Roman liars
  • (computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
  • * 2006 , Jean Andrews, Fixing Windows XP (page 352)
    • Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives
  • * 2011 , Samuel Phung, Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0
    • 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 five

    See also

    * apiary

    Verb

    (hiv)
  • (entomology) To enter or possess a hive.
  • To form a hive-like entity.
  • To collect into a hive.
    • to hive a swarm of bees
  • To store in a hive or similarly.
  • * Byron
    • Hiving wisdom with each studious year.
  • To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
    • (Alexander Pope)

    Derived terms

    * hive off English collective nouns