(n.) A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Latest official figures seen by the Guardian, however, throw into sharp relief the colossal scale of the business, a back-office beehive of activity.
(2) At least two persons died from accidents directly related to the care of beehives.
(3) From the beehive barriers to the corridors to the electric fences, all of the strategies described above are being used widely across the world, with varying degrees of success and failure.
(4) It was also, crucially, the first step in the shift away from the Winehouse of common caricature, the Olive Oyl figure with the beehive, and the drug abuse, the saucy mouth and the baleful talk of "Blake Incarcerated"; the artist people had sadly come to expect – who had once offered to lamp a member of the audience at Glastonbury, and who had last graced a stage at a festival in Serbia, where she stood swaying and mumbling before a baying audience of 20,000.
(5) I'm a beekeeper and take beehives into schools, along with juices and organic vegetables.
(6) For a hotel with rooftop beehives and free bicycle rental, it seems a missed opportunity, especially as GreenLeaders is designed to assist conscious consumers in choosing a hotel and raise awareness about sustainability in the tourism industry.
(7) Established by St Kevin in the 6th century, the site has an arched gateway, a 30m-high round tower, a roofless cathedral, and St Kevin's Cell, the ruins of a beehive-shaped stone hut, thought to have been the hermit's home.
(8) US policy, he said, was akin to “throwing rocks into a beehive”.
(9) The Argentinian pope began his day with a Mass in Rio's beehive-like modern cathedral where he exhorted 1,000 bishops from around the world to go out and find the faithful, a more diplomatic expression of the direct, off-the-cuff instructions he delivered to young Argentinian pilgrims on Thursday.
(10) Sewill, 83, was at the opening of the Beehive, Gatwick's original terminal, as a seven-year-old in 1936.
(11) Almost overnight it seemed that the 5ft 3in singer with the cheeky eye make-up, bouffant beehive and the ever-present cigarette was on a destructive path.
(12) Deputed to load a pig into a van, young Harry saw the animal escape, and knock into a beehive, whose occupants seared its hide.
(13) "You know, this area began as farmland and we are just going back to that," says Rich Wieske, who runs more than 60 beehives in inner-city Detroit and sells the resulting honey commercially.
(14) And there are lighter moments, such as when he is mobbed by the children of Charlton Manor primary school – transformed since it featured in School Dinners – who all want to pull up beetroot from the school garden (and they all like it) and tow him by the hand to show him where the beehive for the honey is.
(15) Tanja's terrace overlooks her little vineyard, beehives and orchard, and we feasted on hot peppers, air-dried ham, filo pastry with spinach and crepe-type rolls filled with cheese.
(16) Crouch is developing a "model plot" that consists of rows of vegetables, some beehives and a compost heap.
(17) Test materials and naturally infected materials from beehives were used to check the resistance of the European foulbrood causative agents to the disinfection agents vofasteril, performic acid, and iosan and iosan-CCT.
(18) The message of that image – you can bring me down to earth, but you will never humble me – was repeated in 2010, when she gave her infamous "blood diamonds" testimony at the trial of former African warlord Charles Taylor, dressed in the queenly beehive and sharp lemon pastels of a southern belle, and described her time in the witness box as "a big inconvenience".
(19) These extensions were of 2 shapes: horseshoe and beehive.
(20) How could they not have known about the beehive of offending around them, the crown asked.
Content
Definition:
(a.) Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.
(n.) That which is contained; the thing or things held by a receptacle or included within specified limits; as, the contents of a cask or bale or of a room; the contents of a book.
(n.) Power of containing; capacity; extent; size.
(n.) Area or quantity of space or matter contained within certain limits; as, solid contents; superficial contents.
(a.) To satisfy the desires of; to make easy in any situation; to appease or quiet; to gratify; to please.
(a.) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
(n.) Rest or quietness of the mind in one's present condition; freedom from discontent; satisfaction; contentment; moderate happiness.
(n.) Acquiescence without examination.
(n.) That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
(n.) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote; also, a member who votes "Content.".
Example Sentences:
(1) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(2) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(3) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(4) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
(5) The content of the cavities was not stained by any of the immunocytochemical reactions applied.
(6) However, decapitation did not eliminate the sex difference in the tissue content of P4 during control incubations.
(7) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(8) The ATP content of the cholinergic electromotor nerves of Torpedo marmorata has been measured.
(9) In addition to the changes associated with blood group A, we also found a decrease in sugar content, alterations in other antigens, and changes in the levels of several glycosyltransferases in cancerous tissues.
(10) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(11) Arteries treated with atrial natriuretic peptide showed no alterations in relaxation or cGMP content after incubation with pertussis toxin.
(12) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(13) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
(14) The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that the decreased Epi response following ET was due to 1) depletion of adrenal Epi content such that adrenomedullary stimulation would not release Epi, 2) decreased Epi release with direct stimulation, i.e., desensitization of release, or 3) decreased afferent signals generated by ET itself.
(15) The intensity of the type III specific peptide bands correlates with the type III content of the samples.
(16) Stimulation of atrial H1-receptors is suggested to directly cause an increase in Ca-channel conductance independent of intracellular cAMP content.
(17) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
(18) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
(19) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
(20) The aim of this study was to describe the contents of daily reports in two homes for the aged.