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beehive
/ˈbiːhaɪv/
noun 6verb 2name 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
active, best, full, inside, longer', many, near, real
VERB + BEEHIVE
'hide, air, blow, buzzing, coat, falling, fell, go
BEEHIVE + NOUN
activity, hairdo, hat, home, tree
PREP.
around, from, in, into, on
ADV.
away, only
Definitions
noun
1
A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live.
2
A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live.
3
Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
4
A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.
5
A particular style of hat.
A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].
verb
1
To fill (a place) with busy activity.
Quite naturally, if there are more ministers swarming the cabinet rooms and conference halls, then there will be a spate of civil servants beehiving the secretariat.
The patrons beehiving the place whooped and shouted.
2
To style the hair in a hive-shaped or bouffant form.
noun
1
A participant aged either twelve or thirteen years old in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.
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A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piec
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By the time it was over, Stone had been blown thirty feet through the air by a beehive round as he was running across a field, knocked out by the concussion of the blast.
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Brian Small said that the Minister could not 'hide in the beehive any longer'
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Quite naturally, if there are more ministers swarming the cabinet rooms and conference halls, then there will be a spate of civil servants beehiving the secretariat.
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The patrons beehiving the place whooped and shouted.
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This is not the first time that I learnt of a neighbor's death after a lapse of a few weeks. You just don't see people beehiving a home, like in India […]
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