hive
/haɪv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.50 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "First, for thy Bees a quiet Station find, / And lodge 'em under Covert of the Wind: / For Winds, when homeward they return, will drive / The loaded Carriers from their Ev'ning Hive."
- "When that the general is not like the hive, to whom the foragers shall all repair, what honey is expected?"
- "There the horde of Roman robbers mock at a barbarous adversary. / There the hive of Roman liars worship a gluttonous emperor-idiot."
- "Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives[…]"
- "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."
- "to hive a swarm of bees"
Etymology
From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”). See also Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”); also Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve. The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see this for more.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hyve, hȳf, *hūfi, *kuHp-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /haɪv/
- British English: /haɪv/