beehive

noun9

1. •
   A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live.
2. •
   Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.
3. •
   A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.

   • The key-hole was still their port of egress and regress, and it resembled the aperture of a bee-hive, on a sunny day in June. — 1850
4. •
   (figurative) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
5. •
   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.
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. — 2004
7. •
   A particular style of hat.
8. •
   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: — 1989
9. •
   A diagram showing where balls have passed the batter, used in analysis.

verb2

1. •
   (rare) To style the hair in a hive-shaped or bouffant form.
2. •
   (rare) 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. — 1958

noun1

1. •
   A participant aged either twelve or thirteen years old in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.