Hive vs. Honeycomb — What's the Difference?

A structure for housing domesticated honeybees.

A honeycomb is a mass of hexagonal prismatic wax cells built by honey bees in their nests to contain their larvae and stores of honey and pollen. Beekeepers may remove the entire honeycomb to harvest honey.

A nest built by wild or feral bees.

A structure of hexagonal, thin-walled cells constructed from beeswax by honeybees to hold honey and larvae.

A colony of bees living in such a structure or nest.

Something resembling this structure in configuration or pattern.

A place swarming with activity.

To fill with holes or compartments; riddle

To collect into a hive.

To form in or cover with a pattern like that of a honeycomb.

To store (honey) in a hive.

A structure of hexagonal cells made by bees primarily of wax, to hold their larvae and for storing the honey to feed the larvae and to feed themselves during winter.

To store up; accumulate.

(by extension) Any structure resembling a honeycomb.

To enter and occupy a beehive.

(construction) Voids left in concrete resulting from failure of the mortar to effectively fill the spaces among coarse aggregate particles.

To live with many others in close association.

(aviation) Manufactured material used to manufacture light, stiff structural components using a sandwich design.

A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.

(solar cell) The texture of the surface of a solar cell, intended to increase its surface area and capture more sunlight.

The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.

(geometry) A space-filling packing of polytopes in 3- or higher-dimensional space.

A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.

To riddle something with holes, especially in such a pattern.

A section of the registry.

A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

(transitive)

Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb.

To collect (bees) into a hive.

A framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees

To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.

Carve a honeycomb pattern into;

(intransitive)

Penetrate thoroughly and into every part;

To form a hive-like entity.

Make full of cavities, like a honeycomb

To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.

(entomology) Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.

A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.

The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.

A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.

To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees.

To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.

To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.

A teeming multitude

A man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees

A structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree

Store, like bees;

Move together in a hive or as if in a hive;

Gather into a hive;