hive
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Is hive a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of hive?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.Examples: "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."
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To collect (bees) into a hive.Examples: "to hive a swarm of bees"transitive
2. (transitive) To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.Examples: "Hiving wisdom with each studious year."transitive
3. (intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.intransitive
4. (intransitive) To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.Examples: "The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, / Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day / More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me; / Therefore I part with him; and part with him / To one what I would have him help to waste / His borrowed purse. […]"; "1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Martha Blount […] to get into warmer houses, and hive together in cities"intransitive
5. (entomology) Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.
Definition source: Wiktionary