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Hived vs Hired - What's the difference?

hived | hired |

As verbs the difference between hived and hired

is that hived is (hive) while hired is (hire).

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

    hired

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hire)

    • Anagrams

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    hire

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Payment for the temporary use of something.
    • The sign offered pedalos on hire .
  • (obsolete) Reward, payment.
  • * Bible, Luke x. 7
    • The labourer is worthy of his hire .
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • I will him reaue of armes, the victors hire , / And of that shield, more worthy of good knight; / For why should a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?
  • The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
    • ''When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire .
  • A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
    • We pair up each of our new hires''' with one of our original '''hires .

    Synonyms

    * (state of being hired) employment, employ

    Verb

    (hir)
  • (label) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
  • * , chapter=16
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
  • (label) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}
  • (label) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
  • (label) To accomplish by paying for services.
  • (label) To accept employment.

    • Antonyms

    * (to employ) fire

    Derived terms

    * hired gun * hired hand

    Anagrams

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