English Dictionary

beehive

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbiːhaɪv/

名詞

比喩的用法 ニュージーランド英語 別表記 異形 非標準

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.

日本語の意味

ミツバチ（蜜蜂）が巣を作り、幼虫を育てるために使用される囲い込まれた構造物。 / 養蜂用に人工的に作られた蜂の巣箱。

She carefully lifted the beehive to check on the queen and the honeycomb.

彼女は女王蜂と巣板を確認するために、養蜂箱を慎重に持ち上げた。

意味（1）

An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young.

意味（2）

A man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey.

意味（3）

(figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.

意味（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.

意味（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, […].

意味（6）

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.

意味（7）

(nonstandard, New Zealand) Alternative form of Beehive

Brian Small said that the Minister could not 'hide in the beehive any longer'

意味（8）

(cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life configuration with a rounded appearance.

beehives （ plural ）