Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hive
Participle: hived
Gerund: hiving
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hive |
| you | hive |
| he;she;it | hives |
| we | hive |
| you | hive |
| they | hive |
Perfect
| I | have hived |
| you | have hived |
| he;she;it | has hived |
| we | have hived |
| you | have hived |
| they | have hived |
Past
| I | hived |
| you | hived |
| he;she;it | hived |
| we | hived |
| you | hived |
| they | hived |
Pluperfect
| I | had hived |
| you | had hived |
| he;she;it | had hived |
| we | had hived |
| you | had hived |
| they | had hived |
Future
| I | will hive |
| you | will hive |
| he;she;it | will hive |
| we | will hive |
| you | will hive |
| they | will hive |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hived |
| you | will have hived |
| he;she;it | will have hived |
| we | will have hived |
| you | will have hived |
| they | will have hived |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hive |
| you | hive |
| he;she;it | hive |
| we | hive |
| you | hive |
| they | hive |
Perfect
| I | have hived |
| you | have hived |
| he;she;it | have hived |
| we | have hived |
| you | have hived |
| they | have hived |
Imperfect
| I | hived |
| you | hived |
| he;she;it | hived |
| we | hived |
| you | hived |
| they | hived |
Pluperfect
| I | had hived |
| you | had hived |
| he;she;it | had hived |
| we | had hived |
| you | had hived |
| they | had hived |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hive |
| you | would hive |
| he;she;it | would hive |
| we | would hive |
| you | would hive |
| they | would hive |
Perfect
| I | would have hived |
| you | would have hived |
| he;she;it | would have hived |
| we | would have hived |
| you | would have hived |
| they | would have hived |
Imperative
| you | hive |
| we | Let's hive |
| you | hive |
Verbs conjugated like 'hive'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hive'
bive,
chive,
dive,
give,
have,
hide,
hie,
hike,
hile,
hipe,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”).
2. See also Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”); also Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve.
3. The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see this for more.
Sample Sentences
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to hive a swarm of bees
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Hiving wisdom with each studious year. [1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):]
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The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, / Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day / More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me; / Therefore I part with him; and part with him / To one what I would have him help to waste / His borrowed purse. […] [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:]
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1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Martha Blount
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[…] to get into warmer houses, and hive together in cities