hive
noun
a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
have hived
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present perfectof hive.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Those who prioritise privacy and the right to be left alone by the state have hived off “libertarian” from the old shared root of “liberal” and “liberty”.
From Economist ● Jul. 28, 2016
Mohi! here you will flag over your page; in Porpheero the ages have hived all their treasures: like a pyramid, the past shadows over the land.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
Sweet bees have hived their honey on thy tongue, And Hebe spiced her nectar with thy breath; About thy neck do all the graces throng, And lay such baits as might entangle death.
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Martha Foote Crow
"The bees seem to have hived all of a sudden," remarked young Daunt.
From All-Wool Morrison by Holman Day
To commit blindly to memory precious forms of truth, which the wise and good have hived for the use of the race, is poohed at as old-fogyish.
From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart
