(n.) A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.
(n.) The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
(n.) A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
(v. t.) To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees.
(v. t.) To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.
(v. i.) To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(2) This weekend a new dispute has erupted over government proposals to hive off child protection services to companies such as Serco and G4S ; perhaps the ministers and officials behind those plans should look at the case of Sana when they come to make their final decision on the future of another vulnerable section of the population.
(3) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
(4) They talk of cutting down to size , of hiving off, of limiting the scope, with all the manic glee of a doctor urging his patient to consider the benefits of assisted suicide.
(5) If bees from a second hive were allowed to forage at both control sites, however, recruits from the experimental hive, while orienting to these sites, exhibited no evidence of having used any distance information they might have received before leaving their parent hive.
(6) immunoglobulin E-mediated hay fever, asthma, eczema, hives) was examined in a nonclinical sample of 379 college students.
(7) Last month, the new TSB bank, hived off from Lloyds to increase competition in retail banking, was established with its headquarters in London, despite being founded in Scotland .
(8) It’s their winter food, for feeding the 10,000-strong colony in the hive when it’s too cold to fly.
(9) Therapeutic response was assessed according to the suppression of symptoms and symptom diary scores of daily itching and frequency, number, size, and duration of hives.
(10) For Hartnett, the new challenge is "re-structuring", by which firms hive off key elements of their trade to tax havens in Switzerland.
(11) Another, keen to make good on the advantage, was said to be a "hive of activity" in the days directly leading up to the inspection.
(12) For instance, the acute symptoms of allergy and asthma such as sneezing, bronchospasm and hives are believed to be largely the result of mediator release from mast cells whereas chronic symptoms (the result of allergic inflammation) can be explained on the basis of eosinophil-mediated tissue damage.
(13) After a few weeks, the hive had stabilised again, with around half of the old foragers now working as nurse bees.
(14) Symptoms include hives, skin eruptions, abdominal pain, perianal pruitis, diarrhea, and pneumonitis.
(15) If you want to go far, go together.” Teddy Ruge is the co-founder of Hive Colab , an innovation hub in Kampala, Uganda .
(16) Even so, King outlined a range of ideas that could involve a radical restructuring of the industry, including hiving off safe deposits from riskier assets.
(17) While some worker bees remain at home, others take flight in search of nectar, pollen and other hive essentials.
(18) Eosinophil counts (range, 4002 to 37,350 cells per cubic millimeter) increased in association with the onset of hives and decreased to baseline levels after their resolution.
(19) Risk declined with the total number of specific allergies reported (p less than 0.001), and was reduced in relation to a history of prior asthma, eczema and hives.
(20) Hives consistently began at the end of menses and lasted for 1 to 2 weeks.
Superhive
Definition:
(n.) A removable upper part of a hive. The word is sometimes contracted to super.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results with all the compounds were generally similar, with broad temperature optima between 80 and 90 C, and with significant uptake in boiling (93 C) but not in superheated water (97 C).
(2) The article gives a brief historical review of the now obsolete method of atmocausis and reports on two cases of very deep internal burns after direct intrauterine application of superheated steam; one of the patients died as a result of this procedure.
(3) The new governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, who has his first day in office on Monday, may find that his £250,000 housing allowance fails to stretch far in London's superheated property market.
(4) After an outbreak of 10 cases of legionellosis in our hospital, recommended measures including superheating of the hot water to 80 degrees C, hyperchlorination to 2 ppm, and flushing resulted in no new cases in the following 5 years.
(5) A subsurface temperature maximum and superheated tissue produce high pressures that eject fragments from the tissue.
(6) Vapor-dominated systems, which contain superheated steam, have less potential for contamination but are relatively uncommon.
(7) Concentrating solar power plants focus sunlight from hundreds of mirrors onto a central tower , where water is superheated into steam that can turn turbines and make electricity.
(8) Disinfection of water distribution systems by superheating and flushing or by hyperchlorination is feasible.
(9) The method also poses dangers inherent in the use of superheated salt solution or hot glycerin.
(10) Monte Carlo neutron transport calculations were performed to obtain the neutron response functions of a superheated drop detector (SDD-100) that is surrounded by polyethylene of various thicknesses.
(11) The tocopherols and unsaturated fatty acid constituents of origanum, laurel, aniseed and coriander underwent little change after pasteurization with superheated steam, indicating stability, which may be due to the synergistic effect of tocopherols and phenolic compounds present in these spices.
(12) Known the temperature before the throttling device, the evaporating temperature and the one of the eventual superheating, they enable to promptly calculate the volume of the refrigerant in the gaseous phase, both as dry saturated vapour and superheated vapour; besides, they allow the quick calculation of the speed of the fluid inside thepiping system, the performance of the compressor under different working conditions and with different refrigerants, and so on.
(13) It is only the introduction of the x-y raster principle combined with a described dual system array (CMT Selectotherm System) which permits the high and rather homogeneous supply of thermal energy also to deep-seated tumor tissue in the patient without concomitant critical superheating of tissues near the skin.
(14) We examined the possibility of chemical evolution in superheated hydrothermal environments and found the formation of microspheres at 250 degrees C and above from a mixture of glycine, alanine, valine, and aspartic acid.
(15) Previously, we have developed a theoretical model for the prediction of the threshold neutron energy to nucleate bubbles in our superheated materials and a model for the calculation of the energy dependent response function of SDD.
(16) Each superheated liquid droplet is a potential nucleation site, with the minimum energy needed to form a bubble at the nucleation site being inversely proportional to the square of the difference between the applied and the vapor pressure (i.e., Emin alpha(delta P)-2.
(17) The organism was not eliminated from the hospital water supply despite shock chlorination and superheating of water tanks.
(18) Therefore, it is possible to make a rem-response Superheated Drop Detector.
(19) Five hundred flats will be “ affordable ” – ie rented out at up to 80% of London’s superheated market rate – but the bulk are for private sale, and are currently being marketed in a green-roofed sales cabin on the site.
(20) The extrusion performance of a protein will thus depend on the amount of insoluble aggregate produced inside the extruder and on protein-protein interactions that occur after the superheated molten mass leaves it.