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Hive vs Hives - What's the difference?

hive | hives |

As nouns the difference between hive and hives

is that hive is (label) winter while hives is itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or due to other conditions or hives can be .

As a verb hives is

(hive).

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

    hives

    English

    (wikipedia hives)

    Etymology 1

    (en)

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or due to other conditions.
  • Synonyms
    * urticaria * nettle-rash

    Etymology 2

    See

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (hive)
  • Anagrams

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