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Hive vs Unhive - What's the difference?

hive | unhive |

In transitive terms the difference between hive and unhive

is that hive is to store in a hive or similarly while unhive is to deprive (a crowd, etc.) of habitation or shelter.

As verbs the difference between hive and unhive

is that hive is to enter or possess a hive while unhive is to drive or remove from a hive.

As a noun hive

is a structure for housing a swarm of honeybees.

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

    unhive

    English

    Verb

    (unhiv)
  • To drive or remove from a hive.
  • To deprive (a crowd, etc.) of habitation or shelter.
    • (Webster 1913)