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Rive vs Hive - What's the difference?

rive | hive |

In intransitive terms the difference between rive and hive

is that rive is to break apart; to split while hive is to take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.

As verbs the difference between rive and hive

is that rive is to tear apart by force; to split; to cleave while hive is to enter or possess a hive.

As nouns the difference between rive and hive

is that rive is a place torn; a rent; a rift while hive is a structure for housing a swarm of honeybees.

rive

English

Verb

  • To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
    • I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks
  • To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
  • * :
    • And therwith she toke the swerd from her loue that lay ded and fylle to the ground in a swowne / And whan she aroos she made grete dole out of mesure / the whiche sorowe greued Balyn passyngly sore / and he wente vnto her for to haue taken the swerd oute of her h?d butsodenly she sette the pomell to the ground / and rofe her self thorow the body
  • (label) To break apart; to split.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , II.vi:
    • The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue .
  • * (1665-1728)
    • Freestone rives , splits, and breaks in any direction.
  • In woodworking, to use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).

    • Synonyms

    * (to rend asunder) cleave, rend, split

    See also

    * rip * rib

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place torn; a rent; a rift.

    • Synonyms

    * (a place torn) rent, rift ----

    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