Hive vs. Honeycomb

Hivenoun

A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.

Hivenoun

The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.

Hivenoun

A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.

Hivenoun

A section of the registry.

Hiveverb

To enter or possess a hive.

Hiveverb

(intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.

Hiveverb

(transitive) To collect into a hive.

Hiveverb

(transitive) To store in a hive or similarly.

Hiveverb

(intransitive) To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.

Hivenoun

A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.

Hivenoun

The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.

Hivenoun

A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.

Hiveverb

To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees.

Hiveverb

To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.

Hiveverb

To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.

Hivenoun

a teeming multitude

Hivenoun

a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees

Hivenoun

a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree

Hiveverb

store, like bees;

Hiveverb

move together in a hive or as if in a hive;

Hiveverb

gather into a hive;

Honeycombnoun

A structure of hexagonal cells made by bees primarily of wax, to hold their larvae and for storing the honey to feed the larvae and to feed themselves during winter.

Honeycombnoun

(by extension) Any structure resembling a honeycomb.

Honeycombnoun

(construction) Voids left in concrete resulting from failure of the mortar to effectively fill the spaces among coarse aggregate particles.

Honeycombnoun

(aviation) Manufactured material used manufacture light, stiff structural components using a sandwich design.

Honeycombnoun

(geometry) A space-filling packing of polytopes in 3- or higher-dimensional space.

Honeycombverb

To riddle something with holes, especially in such a pattern.

Honeycombnoun

A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

Honeycombnoun

Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb.

Honeycombnoun

a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees

Honeycombverb

carve a honeycomb pattern into;

Honeycombverb

penetrate thoroughly and into every part;

Honeycombverb

make full of cavities, like a honeycomb

Honeycomb

A honeycomb is a mass of hexagonal prismatic wax cells built by honey bees in their nests to contain their larvae and stores of honey and pollen. Beekeepers may remove the entire honeycomb to harvest honey.