different between beehive vs alveated

English

Alternative forms

• bee-hive

Etymology

From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee +? hive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?ha?v/

Noun

beehive (plural beehives)

1. An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young.

   Synonyms: hive, skep

2. A man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey.

   Synonyms: hive, apiary

3. (figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.

   Synonym: hive of activity

4. A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.

   Synonym: B-52

5. A particular style of hat.
6. A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
   • 2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, page 179)

     By the time it was over, Stone had been blown thirty feet through the air by a beehive round as he was running across a field, knocked out by the concussion of the blast.

7. (nonstandard, New Zealand) Alternative form of Beehive
8. (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life configuration with a rounded appearance.

Derived terms

• beehive quern

Related terms

• bee
• hive

Translations

Verb

beehive (third-person singular simple present beehives, present participle beehiving, simple past and past participle beehived)

1. (rare, transitive) To fill (a place) with busy activity.
   • 1958, T. S. Bawa, Jawaharlal Nehru, Nehru's India: An Analytical Study (page 25)

     Quite naturally, if there are more ministers swarming the cabinet rooms and conference halls, then there will be a spate of civil servants beehiving the secretariat.

See also

• apiary
• beekeeper
• skep

Further reading

• Beehive (beekeeping) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (the man-made structures)
• Beehive (hairstyle) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• hive bee

English

Etymology

Latin alveatus (“hollowed out”).

Adjective

alveated (comparative more alveated, superlative most alveated)

1. Formed or vaulted like a beehive.