Difference between Hive and Beehive

What is the difference between Hive and Beehive?

Hive as a noun is a structure, which a swarm of honeybees inhabits or has inhabited. while Beehive as a noun is an enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus apis) live and raise their young.

Hive

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A structure, which a swarm of honeybees inhabits or has inhabited. The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees. A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To enter or possess a hive. To form a hive-like entity. To collect into a hive. To store in a hive or similarly.

Example sentence: There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive.

Beehive

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young.A man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey.Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.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.A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.

Example sentence: If Amy Winehouse was a beehive, then I guess I'm a blonde bob.

We hope you now know whether to use Hive or Beehive in your sentence.

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