beehive
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
- A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live.; Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.
- A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live.; A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest 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.
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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,[…].
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A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
— 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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Alternative form of Beehive.
— Brian Small said that the Minister could not 'hide in the beehive any longer'
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In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance.
— By the way, what happens to a beehive which is under attack by one or two gliders such as pictured:
- A diagram showing where balls have passed the batter, used in analysis.
动词 v.
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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.
- To style the hair in a hive-shaped or bouffant form.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive.
词源 2
From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive.
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