bee

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.
    — His face was belymmed as byes had him stounge[…].
  2. A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee.
    — geography bee
  3. A ring or torque; a bracelet. obsolete
    — And kyng Arthur gaf her a ryche bee of gold and soo she departed
  4. The name of the Latin script letter B/b.
    — "The ee-vee-ee-ar-en-oh-ee-ell-blank-bee-ell-oh-ess-ess-oh-em-blank-en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar is especially dee-ee-ell-eye-cee-eye-oh-you-ess." Our friends thanked the spelling bee for his help and then he buzzed off.
  5. Any of the pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through. plural-normally
  6. Any stinging flying insect, especially a wasp. informal,proscribed
  7. A community gathering to share labour, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.
    — The cellar […] was dug by a bee in a single day.
动词 v.
  1. Obsolete spelling of be. alt-of,obsolete
    — held that a ‘Nicholaitan is an heretike, like Nicholas, who held that wiues should bee common to all alike.’
  2. past participle of be; been form-of,obsolete,participle,past
    — His Lady sad to see his sore constraint, / Cride out, Now now Sir knight, shew what ye bee / Add faith vnto your force, and be not faint: / Strangle her, els she sure will strangle thee.

词形变化

bees plural been dialectal,plural bees plural bees plural bees plural bees plural

词汇关系

近义词
king of insects
上位词
pollinator
衍生词
Africanized bee Africanized honey bee alkali bee antibee apple-bee artificial bee colony bee assassin bee ball bee balm bee baw babbity bee beard bee bearding bee beetle bee bite bee-brained bee-bread bee bread beebrush bee candy beedom bee-eater bee farm beefarm beefarming bee farming bee fly bee glue bee gum bee hawkmoth beeherd beehive bee-hive beehood bee hoon bee hotel beehouse bee hummingbird bee in one's bonnet beeish beekeeper beekeeping beekind beeless beelike beeline bee-line beeling bee louse beely beemageddon beeman beemaster bee moth beemother bee mother bee orchid bee pirate bee plant beepocalypse beeproof bee purple bee sage beeskep bee's knees bee sting bee-stung beeswarm beeswax beeswing Beetown bee tree bee up one's ass bee-utiful bee vacuum bee violet bee wine bee wolf beewort beey beeyard black bee blood bee blue-cheeked bee-eater bumble bee bumblebee bumble-bee busy as a bee busy bee carder bee carpenter bee chronic bee paralysis virus common carder bee coppice mining bee cuckoo bee digger bee dog-bee European bee-eater European dark bee follow the bee green bee-eater have a bee in your bonnet hive bee honey bee honeybee horse-bee humble-bee Italian bee Kashmir bee hawkmoth ke-mo sah-bee killer bee leaf-cutter bee leafcutter bee leaf-cutting bee like a bee in clover little green bee-eater long-faced miner bee masked bee mason bee meat bee mining bee mumble-bee nameless bee disease nanobee orchid bee plasterer bee poppy bee put the bee on queen bee queen bee acid resin bee rock bee sand bee southeastern blueberry bee spotted bee balm squash and gourd bee squash bee stingless bee sting like a bee sweat bee upholsterer bee violet carpenter bee vulture bee Wallace's giant bee worker bee working bee apple bee quilting bee geography bee husking bee sewing bee spelling bee
相关词
Beowulf apiology apiculture beekeeping beehive eusocial hive swarm tremble dance waggle dance corbicula sarothrum scopa sting apitherapy apian apiarian apiarist apimania dumbledore hornet pollinator wasp apiary beehouse skep Langstroth hive super queen-cage bee escape duplet honey extractor topbar bee smoker apidictor chalkbrood colony collapse disorder foulbrood nosema sacbrood stonebrood varroa

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-der.
Proto-Germanic *bijǭ
Proto-West Germanic *bijā
Old English bēo
Middle English be
English bee
From Middle English be, bee, beo, bey, from Old English bēo, bīo (“bee”), from Proto-West Germanic *bijā, from Proto-Germanic *bijǭ (“bee”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey- (“bee”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola been (“bees”), North Frisian bi (“bee”), West Frisian bij (“bee”), Dutch bij, by (“bee”), German Biene (“bee”), Limburgish Bé, bie (“bee”), Luxembourgish Bei (“bee”), Vilamovian byn (“bee”), West Flemish bieë (“bee”), Yiddish בין (bin, “bee”), Danish and Swedish bi (“bee”), Faroese býfluga (“bee”), Icelandic bý, býfluga (“bee”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk bie (“bee”); also Irish beach, meach (“bee”), Scottish Gaelic beach (“bee; beehive; wasp”), Latin fūcus (“bee”), Latvian bite (“bee”), Lithuanian bitė (“bee”), Belarusian пчала́ (pčalá, “bee”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian пчела́ (pčelá, “bee”), Czech včála, včela (“bee”), Polish pszczoła (“bee”), Serbo-Croatian пчѐла, bčela, pčèla (“bee”), Slovak včela (“bee”), Slovene čebela (“bee”), Ukrainian бджола́ (bdžolá, “bee”), Ossetian биндзӕ (binʒæ), бындз (bynʒ, “fly”), Pashto وينه (waynë́, wenë́, wuynë́, “termite; white ant”).
词源 2
Possibly from dialectal bene, been, bean (“help given by neighbours”), from Middle English been, bene (“neighbourly help, prayer, petition, request, extra service given by a tenant to his lord”), from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, petition, favour, compulsory service”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōni, from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“prayer, request, supplication”).
Thus a variant of obsolete ben (“prayer; petition”) and doublet of boon. Cognate with Danish bøn (“prayer”), Dutch ban (“curse”), German Bann (“ban”). More at ban.
词源 3
From Middle English bie, from Old English bēah, bēag, from Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz. Doublet of beag, a learned borrowing; and of bagel.
词源 4
Variant spellings.
词源 5
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English be, from Latin be (the name of the letter B).
词源 6
Probably from Old English bēah (“ring”). Compare bow.
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