- a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
- the colony of bees inhabiting a hive.
- something resembling a beehive in structure or use.
- a place swarming with busy occupants: a hive of industry.
- a swarming or teeming multitude.
- to gather into or cause to enter a hive.
- to shelter as in a hive.
- to store up in a hive.
- to store or lay away for future use or enjoyment.
- (of bees) to enter a hive.
- to live together in or as in a hive.
- to become transferred from the main body of a commercial or industrial enterprise through the agency of new ownership.
- a structure in which social bees live and rear their young
- a colony of social bees
- a place showing signs of great industry (esp in the phrase a hive of activity)
- a teeming crowd; multitude
- an object in the form of a hive
- to cause (bees) to collect or (of bees) to collect inside a hive
- to live or cause to live in or as if in a hive
- (of bees) to store (honey, pollen, etc) in the hive
- to store, esp for future use
