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  • adjective Resembling a beehive

Etymologies

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hive +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Mr. Alfredson and his cinematographer, Hoyte Van Hoytema he shot "Let the Right One In", make good watchers of us all by seducing us with striking images: trains moving slowly on parallel tracks in a marshaling yard; a baby nursing at its dead mother's breast; an airplane materializing out of nowhere on an isolated airstrip; an archive's hivelike architecture.

    Nervy 'Young Adult' Dazzles by the Book Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • The building is topped by a glass-paned hivelike structure through which guests at the Standard hotel may glimpse the designer doing her yoga postures, like a gawgeous Louise Bourgeois spider.

    She's Mayoress of Tent City! 2009

  • Inadvertently, he and his team encounter an alien hivelike race--the Hydra--that is conquering Earth after Earth after Earth.

    Dabel Bros. to Publish Original Dean Koontz Comic - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2008

  • ,Adams has gotten mileage out of other so-called alternative office strategies like Hoteling (spaces are divvied out daily, first come, first served), Shared Space (employees confined like two-to-a-cell prisoners) and Free-Address (workers share large, open, hivelike spaces).

    Working In Dilbert's World 2008

  • Improbable as it may seem, given the breadth and depth of the dot-com collapse, not to mention the emergence of hivelike high-tech centers in places like China and India now available for off-shoring and outsourcing, Silicon Valley is starting to feel like 1995 -- the year Netscape went public -- all over again ...

    Web 2.0 Sunnyside Up ? Ben Barren 2005

  • Columns of limestone stood in hivelike towers, five and six stories high.

    Deeper Jeff Long 2007

  • Columns of limestone stood in hivelike towers, five and six stories high.

    Deeper Jeff Long 2007

  • Improbable as it may seem, given the breadth and depth of the dot-com collapse, not to mention the emergence of hivelike high-tech centers in places like China and India now available for off-shoring and outsourcing, Silicon Valley is starting to feel like 1995 -- the year Netscape went public -- all over again ...

    Archive 2005-06-01 Ben Barren 2005

  • At their chamber in the temporary hivelike structure the humans and their thranx advisors had built to provide comfortable climate-controlled lodgings for thranx visitors to and workers at the fair, the Bwyl had left a small packing case containing an assortment of favorite drinks.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • At their chamber in the temporary hivelike structure the humans and their thranx advisors had built to provide comfortable climate-controlled lodgings for thranx visitors to and workers at the fair, the Bwyl had left a small packing case containing an assortment of favorite drinks.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

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