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Hived vs Hied - What's the difference?

hived | hied |

As verbs the difference between hived and hied

is that hived is (hive) while hied is (hie).

hived

English

Verb

(head)
  • (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

    hied

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hie)

    • Anagrams

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    hie

    English

    Verb

  • (poetic) To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
  • * Dryden
    • The youth, returning to his mistress, hies .
  • (reflexive, poetic) To hurry (oneself).
  • * Shakespeare
    • My husband hies him home.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Haste; diligence.

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