(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.
Swarm
Definition:
(v. i.) To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.
(n.) A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
(n.) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
(n.) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
(v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
(v. i.) To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
(v. i.) To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
(v. i.) To abound; to be filled (with).
(v. i.) To breed multitudes.
(v. t.) To crowd or throng.
Example Sentences:
(1) Swarming is a requisite for mating in populations of Aedes communis and Ae.
(2) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
(3) Although only a small fraction of the yield of that of the murine Engelbreth-Holm, Swarm (EHS) sarcoma, the yield of the human basement membrane-producing tumors could be increased by rendering the mice lathyritic.
(4) Pronase-released glycopeptides of isolated laminin, from a mouse Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm tumor, were fractionated using a combination of gel permeation chromatography and Con A-Sepharose affinity chromatography.
(5) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(6) The viability and morphology of RPE was improved by using a serum-free medium containing a bovine pituitary extract in conjunction with an extracellular matrix coating derived from Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm tumors.
(7) The Heat come out with some swarming defense and Indiana can't get a shot off in time, giving the ball back to Miami.
(8) After a dramatic day which saw police swarm Seven properties across Sydney searching for proof Schapelle Corby had been paid for an interview, Seven West Media boss Tim Worner said that the police action had come as a total surprise because the Seven had cooperated with the inquiry fully.
(9) The fire extinguisher was thrown after protesters swarmed into Millbank Tower, the Westminster building that houses the Conservative party's headquarters.
(10) An LSC colony spreads on the surface of solid 100:10 medium as a monolayer of cells in a fashion resembling that of certain swarming or gliding bacteria.
(11) In some instances swarming is stimulated at very low toxin doses.
(12) Swarm cells of Thiothrix nivea were found to possess a group of fimbriae at one pole.
(13) Monoclonal antibodies that recognize epitopes in these domains were raised against Swarm rat chondrosarcoma aggrecan that was either denatured through reduction and alkylation or partially deglycosylated through chondroitinase ABC digestion or alkali elimination, the latter with or without sulfite addition.
(14) The rhetoric that sees innocent people labelled “marauding,” “swarms” and “cockroaches” is what makes it permissible for society to imprison them, and it should come as no surprise that women and children are at particular risk from punitive immigration laws.
(15) It was established that coupling took place in swarms with swarming males and out of swarms with freely flying males.
(16) But much worse things are happening here.” The UK prime minister, David Cameron, drew widespread criticism on Thursday for saying that the 185,000 men, women and children who have risked their lives to flee poverty, persecution and war in search a better life were “swarming” across the Mediterranean .
(17) Richard Dunne clatters into him late, the goalkeeper goes down and several France players swarm around Dunne to voice their displeasure at the Ireland defender.
(18) David Cameron used ‘swarm’ instead of ‘plague’ in case it implied that God had sent the migrants | Frankie Boyle Read more David Cameron recently spoke of a “swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean”.
(19) In a speech in July, prime minister David Cameron referred to migrants and refugees trying to reach Britain as a “swarm” .
(20) If the concentration is increased the swarming ceases, and at still higher concentrations the bacteria are inactivated.