noun

• (computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
  "Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives[…]"

verb

• (transitive) To collect (bees) into a hive.
  "to hive a swarm of bees"
• (transitive) To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
  "Hiving wisdom with each studious year."
• (intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
• (intransitive) To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.
  "The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, / Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day / More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me; / Therefore I part with him; and part with him / To one what I would have him help to waste / His borrowed purse. […]"