Honeycomb vs. Honey — What's the Difference?

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.

Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance made by honey bees and some related insects, such as stingless bees. Bees produce honey from the sugary secretions of plants (floral nectar) or from secretions of other insects (such as honeydew), by regurgitation, enzymatic activity, and water evaporation.

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

A sweet, sticky yellowish-brown fluid made by bees and other insects from nectar collected from flowers.

Something resembling this structure in configuration or pattern.

An excellent example of something

To fill with holes or compartments; riddle

A sweet yellowish or brownish viscid fluid produced by various bees from the nectar of flowers and used as food.

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

A similar substance made by certain other insects.

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.

A sweet substance, such as nectar or syrup.

(by extension) Any structure resembling a honeycomb.

Sweetness; pleasantness

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

(Informal) Sweetheart; dear. Used as a term of endearment.

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

(Informal) Something remarkably fine

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

To sweeten with honey; add honey to.

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

To make pleasant or appealing

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

To give a yellow or golden color to.

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

(uncountable) A viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees. Often used to sweeten tea or to spread on baked goods.

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

(countable) A variety of this substance.

A framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees

(rare) Nectar.

Carve a honeycomb pattern into;

(figuratively) Something sweet or desirable.

Penetrate thoroughly and into every part;

A term of affection.

Make full of cavities, like a honeycomb

A woman, especially an attractive one.

A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.

Involving or resembling honey.

Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like most types of honey.

(transitive) To sweeten; to make agreeable.

(transitive) To add honey to.

(intransitive) To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.

(intransitive) To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.

A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.

That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.

Sweet one; - a term of endearment.

To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.

To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.

A sweet yellow liquid produced by bees

A beloved person; used as terms of endearment

Sweeten with honey

Having the color of honey