different between wive vs hive

English

Etymology

From Middle English wiven, iwiven, from Old English w?fian, w?fi?an, ?ew?fian (“to take a wife; marry”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?v

Verb

wive (third-person singular simple present wives, present participle wiving, simple past and past participle wived)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To marry (a woman).
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene III

     If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me.

2. (transitive) To provide (someone) with a wife.

Synonyms

• wife (slang, African-American Vernacular)

Anagrams

• view

Middle English

Etymology 1

A version of wif with the voiced consonant analogically brought in from the plural forms.

Noun

wive

1. Alternative form of wif

Etymology 2

From Old English w?fa, nominative plural of w?f.

Noun

wive

1. plural of wif

English

Etymology

From Middle English hyve, from Old English h?f, from Proto-West Germanic *h?fi (compare Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”) (compare Latin c?pa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek ???? (kúp?, “gap, hole”), ???????? (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit ??? (k??pa, “cave”)), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”). The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see [1].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Noun

hive (plural hives)

1. A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
   • IV.10-13:

     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.

2. The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene iii:

     When that the general is not like the hive, to whom the foragers shall all repair, what honey is expected?

3. A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Boadicea

     There the hive of Roman liars worship a gluttonous emperor-idiot.

4. (computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
   • 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

Translations

See also

• apiary
• hives

Verb

hive (third-person singular simple present hives, present participle hiving, simple past and past participle hived)

1. (intransitive, entomology) To enter or possess a hive.
2. (intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
3. (transitive) To collect into a hive.

   to hive a swarm of bees

4. (transitive) To store in a hive or similarly.
5. (intransitive) To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene v^[2]:

     SHYLOCK:

     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

Derived terms

• hive off

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• hiva (a infinitive)

Etymology

From English heave, from Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-Germanic *habjan? (“to take up, lift”). Doublet of hevja.

Verb

hive (present tense hiv, past tense heiv, past participle hive, present participle hivande, imperative hiv)

1. (transitive) to lift, heave, tow
2. (transitive) to throw

References

• “hive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.