Archive vs Hive - What's the difference?
archive | hive |
A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
To put into an archive.
A structure for housing a swarm of honeybees.
The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
* Tennyson
(computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
* 2006 , Jean Andrews, Fixing Windows XP (page 352)
* 2011 , Samuel Phung, Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0
(entomology) To enter or possess a hive.
To form a hive-like entity.
To collect into a hive.
To store in a hive or similarly.
* Byron
To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
As a verb archive
is .As a noun hive is
(label) winter.archive
English
Noun
(en noun)- His archive of Old High German language texts is the most extensive in Britain.
Derived terms
() * archival * archivist * national archiveVerb
(archiv)- I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.
hive
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Dryden)
- (Shakespeare)
- a wretched hive of scum and villainy
- the hive of Roman liars
- Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives
- For devices built with hive-based registry implementation, the registry data are broken into three different hives — the boot hive, system hive, and user hive.
Derived terms
* beehive * hivemind * mother-hive * superhive * hive fiveSee also
* apiaryVerb
(hiv)- to hive a swarm of bees
- Hiving wisdom with each studious year.
- (Alexander Pope)