A hive may refer to a

beehive A beehive is an enclosed structure which houses honey bees, subgenus '' Apis.'' Honey bees live in the beehive, raising their young and producing honey as part of their seasonal cycle. Though the word ''beehive'' is used to describe the nest of ...

, an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species live and raise their young. Hive or hives may also refer to:

Arts

* ''Hive'' (game), an abstract-strategy board game published in 2001 * "Hive" (song), a 2013 song by Earl Sweatshirt featuring Vince Staples and Casey Veggies * ''Hive'' (album), a 2022 album by alternative singer, producer, songwriter Sub Urban * "Hives", a song by IBOPA and later covered by Xiu Xiu as "Hives Hives" on the album ''

Knife Play Knife play is a form of consensual BDSM edgeplay involving knives, daggers, and swords as a source of physical and mental stimulation. Knives are typically used to cut away clothing, scratch the skin, remove wax after wax play, or simply provid ...

'' *

H.I.V.E. The Hierarchy of International Vengeance and Extermination (H.I.V.E.) is a fictional terrorist organization appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The H.I.V.E. organization has appeared in ''Teen Titans (TV series), Teen Titan ...

("Hierarchy of International Vengeance and Extermination"), a DC Comics villain organization * ''H.I.V.E.'' (series) ("Higher Institute of Villainous Education"), a series of young-adult novels * '' Hive Propolis'', stylized as ''hive , Propolis'', a science fiction transmedia series * Hive (comics), a Marvel Comics villain and character on ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' *

The Hives The Hives are a Swedish garage rock band formed in Fagersta in 1993. After gaining success in Sweden throughout the 1990s, they rose to worldwide prominence in the early 2000s during the garage rock revival. The band's line-upconsisting of H ...

, a Swedish rock band

Business

* Hive (artificial intelligence company), services for businesses, known for content moderation *

HIVE (ISP) HIVE was the third-largest telecommunications company in Iceland, founded in 2004. It provided broadband ADSL connections and a VoIP telephone system as well as Wi-Fi fixed and mobile wireless access. In 2008, HIVE merged with SKO., another teleco ...

, an ISP in Iceland, founded in 2004 * Hive Social, a social network

Film and television

* ''The Hive'' (2008 film), a 2008 film * ''The Hive'' (2014 film), a 2014 film * ''Hives'' (film), a 2012 Croatian film * ''Hive'' (film), a 2021 Kosovan film *

MTV Hive MTV Hive was MTV's online music video portal and its editorial mouthpiece for coverage of indie music genres, providing music news and music on-demand. It is the successor to the former MTV Music website in the United States, which was merged int ...

, a former web portal operated by MTV * The Hive, an online component of ''Vanity Fair'' (magazine) * The Hive, an alien race in the television series ''

Dark Skies ''Dark Skies'' is an American UFO conspiracy theory–based science fiction television series. It debuted on NBC on September 21, 1996, and ended on May 31, 1997, and was later rerun by the Sci-Fi Channel; 18 episodes and a two-hour pilot epis ...

'' * "Hive", a season 3 episode of ''Servant'' (TV series)

People

Hives (surname) Hives is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ernest Hives, 1st Baron Hives of Duffield (1886-1965), Chairman of Rolls-Royce Ltd * Harry Hives (1901–1974), Canadian Anglican bishop * Zoe Hives Zoe Hives (born 24 October 19 ...

Places

Hive, East Riding of Yorkshire Hive is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately west of Brough and north-east of Goole. It lies just to the north of the M62 motorway. Hive forms part of the civil parish of Gilberdyke. In 1823 Hive ...

, England *

Vestfold University College Vestfold University College (, abbreviated as HiVe) was a university college in the county of Vestfold, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in North ...

(Høgskolen i Vestfold, ''HiVe''), a Norwegian university college

Medicine

Hives Hives, also known as urticaria, is a kind of skin rash with red or flesh-colored, raised, itchy bumps. Hives may burn or sting. The patches of rash may appear on different body parts, with variable duration from minutes to days, and typically ...

, also called urticaria, a common form of skin rash * HIVE, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) encephalitis

Technology

* Hive, a highest-level logical section in the

Windows Registry The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores low-level settings for the Microsoft Windows operating system and for applications that opt to use the registry. The kernel, device drivers, services, Security Accounts Manager, a ...

Apache Hive Apache Hive is a data warehouse software project. It is built on top of Apache Hadoop for providing data query and analysis. Hive gives an SQL-like Interface (computing), interface to query data stored in various databases and file systems that i ...

, a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop *

Hive Connected Home Hive is an eco-tech company owned by Centrica that produces smart home devices and is on a "mission to transform home energy and build a greener, fairer, future for all". It is one of the largest connected home providers in the UK and, as of ...

, a home automation platform *

High-performance Integrated Virtual Environment The High-performance Integrated Virtual Environment (HIVE) is a distributed computing environment used for healthcare-IT and biological research, including analysis of DNA sequencing#Next-generation methods, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, ...

, a computing environment used to process biological data *

HIVE (virtual environment) The H.I.V.E. (Huge Immersive Virtual Environment) is a joint research project between the departments of Psychology, Computer Science, and Systems Analysis at Miami University. The project is funded by a grant from the U.S. Army Research Office ...

, a research project at Miami University *

Hive UI Hive (stylized as HIVE) is a custom ROM developed by Xolo and is built on the Android operating system v 4.4.4 (KitKat Kit Kat (stylised as KitKat in various countries) is a chocolate-covered wafer bar confection created by Rowntree's of ...

, a custom ROM for the Android operating system

Other

* ''Hive'' (1820), a 485-ton sailing ship built in 1820 at Deptford, England *

Hive (ransomware) Hive (also known as the Hive ransomware group) was a ransomware as a service (RaaS) operation carried out by the eponymous cybercrime organization between June 2021 and January 2023. The group's purpose was to attack mainly public institutions to ...

, a ransomware as a service (RaaS) operation