English-Thai Dictionary

bee

N การ รวมตัว เพื่อ ทำกิจกรรม ร่วมกัน  งาน สังสรรค์  kan-ruam-tua-phuea-tham-kid-ja-kam-ruam-kan

 

bee

N ผึ้ง  ภมร  bumblebee phueng

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BEE

n.An insect of the genus Apis. [See Apis. ] The species are numerous, of which the honey-bee is the most interesting to man. It has been cultivated from the earliest periods, for its wax and honey. It lives in swarms or societies, of from 1 , to 5 , individuals. These swarms contain three classes of bees, the females or queen bees, the males or drones, and the neuters or working bees. Of the former, there is only one in each hive or swarm, whose sole office is to propagate the species. It is much larger than the other bees. The drones serve merely for impregnating the queen, after which they are destroyed by the neuters. These last are the laborers of the hive. They collect the honey, form the cells, and feed the other bees and the young. They are furnished with a proboscis by which they suck the honey from flowers, and a mouth by which they swallow it, and then convey it to the hive in their stomachs, where they disgorge it into the cells. The pollen of flowers settles on the hairs with which their body is covered, whence it is collected into pellets, by a brush on their second pair of legs, and deposited in a hollow in the third pair. It is called bee bread, and is the food of the larvae or young. The adult bees feed on honey. The wax was supposed to be formed from pollen by a digestive process, but it is now ascertained that it is formed from the honey by a similar process. The females and neuters have a barbed sting, attached to a bag of poison, which flows into the wound inflicted by the sting. When a hive is overstocked, a new colony is sent out under the direction of a queen bee. This is called swarming.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BEE

BEE Bee,

 

Defn: p. p. of Be; -- used for been. [Obs. ] Spenser.

 

BEE

Bee, n. Etym: [AS. beó; akin to D. bij and bije, Icel. b, Sw. & Dan. bi, OHG. pini, G. biene, and perh. Ir. beach, Lith. bitis, Skr. bha. sq. root97.]

 

1. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidæ (the honeybees ), or family Andrenidæ (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.

 

Note: There are many genera and species. The common honeybee (Apis mellifica ) lives in swarms, each of which has its own queen, its males or drones, and its very numerous workers, which are barren females. Besides the A. mellifica there are other species and varieties of honeybees, as the A. ligustica of Spain and Italy; the A. Indica of India; the A. fasciata of Egypt. The bumblebee is a species of Bombus. The tropical honeybees belong mostly to Melipoma and Trigona.

 

2. A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee. [U. S.] The cellar. .. was dug by a bee in a single day. S. G. Goodrich.

 

3. pl. Etym: [Prob. fr. AS. beáh ring, fr. b to bend. See 1st Bow. ] (Naut. )

 

Defn: Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks. Bee beetle (Zoöl.), a beetle (Trichodes apiarius ) parasitic in beehives. -- Bee bird (Zoöl.), a bird that eats the honeybee, as the European flycatcher, and the American kingbird. -- Bee flower (Bot. ), an orchidaceous plant of the genus Ophrys (O. apifera ), whose flowers have some resemblance to bees, flies, and other insects. -- Bee fly (Zoöl.), a two winged fly of the family Bombyliidæ. Some species, in the larval state, are parasitic upon bees. -- Bee garden, a garden or inclosure to set beehives in; an apiary. Mortimer. -- Bee glue, a soft, unctuous matter, with which bees cement the combs to the hives, and close up the cells; -- called also propolis. -- Bee hawk (Zoöl.), the honey buzzard. -- Bee killer (Zoöl.), a large two-winged fly of the family Asilidæ (esp. Trupanea apivora ) which feeds upon the honeybee. See Robber fly. -- Bee louse (Zoöl.), a minute, wingless, dipterous insect (Braula cæca ) parasitic on hive bees. -- Bee martin (Zoöl.), the kingbird (Tyrannus Carolinensis ) which occasionally feeds on bees. -- Bee moth (Zoöl.), a moth (Galleria cereana ) whose larvæ feed on honeycomb, occasioning great damage in beehives. -- Bee wolf (Zoöl.), the larva of the bee beetle. See Illust. of Bee beetle. -- To have a bee in the head or in the bonnet. (a ) To be choleric. [Obs. ] (b ) To be restless or uneasy. B. Jonson. (c ) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. "She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head. " Sir W. Scott.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

bee

bee |bē bi | ▶noun 1 a honeybee. 2 an insect of a large group to which the honeybee belongs, including many solitary as well as social kinds. [Superfamily Apoidea, order Hymenoptera: several families, often now placed in the single family Apidae. ] 3 [ with modifier ] a meeting for communal work or amusement: a quilting bee. PHRASES have a bee in one's bonnet informal be preoccupied or obsessed about something, esp. a scheme or plan of action. the bee's knees informal an outstandingly good person or thing. [first used to denote something small and insignificant, transferred to the opposite sense in US slang. ]ORIGIN Old English bēo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bij and German dialect Beie.

 

Oxford Dictionary

bee

bee |biː | ▶noun 1 (also honeybee or hive bee ) a stinging winged insect which collects nectar and pollen, produces wax and honey, and lives in large communities. ●Four species in the genus Apis, family Apidae, in particular the widespread A. mellifera. 2 an insect of a large group to which the honeybee belongs, including many solitary as well as social kinds. ●Superfamily Apoidea, order Hymenoptera: several families, often now placed in the single family Apidae. 3 [ with modifier ] a meeting for communal work or amusement: a sewing bee. PHRASES the bee's knees informal an outstandingly good person or thing. [first used to denote something small and insignificant, transferred to the opposite sense in US slang. ] have a bee in one's bonnet informal be preoccupied or obsessed with something. ORIGIN Old English bēo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bij and German dialect Beie.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

bee

bee noun WORD LINKS apian relating to bees apiary a place where bees are kept Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

bee

bee noun WORD LINKS bee apian relating to bees apiary, hive home swarm, drive, erst collective noun apiphobia fear of bees Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

French Dictionary

bée

bée adj. f. adjectif féminin Bouche bée. La bouche ouverte d ’étonnement. Note Technique Le mot ne s ’emploie que dans cette locution.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

bee

bee 1 /biː / (! beと同音 ) 名詞 複 ～s /-z /C 1 ハチ ; ミツバチ (!スズメバチはwasp (大型の場合はhornet ) ▸ be stung by a bee ハチに刺される ▸ a queen [worker ] bee 女王 [働き ]バチ ▸ a swarm of bees ミツバチの群れ .2 ｟話 ｠働き者 ▸ a busy bee 働き者 3 ｟米 くだけて ｠(共同作業 競技などの )集まり ; 集い ▸ a working [sewing ] bee 団体奉仕作業 [手芸の会 ](as ) b ù sy as a b é e [b é es ]｟くだけて ｠非常に忙しい .b è es and h ó ney ＝money (→rhyming slang ).have a b è e in one's b ó nnet ｟くだけて ｠ «…について » 思い込みが激しい, すごい熱の入れようである «about » .～́ b à lm 〘植 〙レモンバーム .～́ 's kn è es ｟英話 やや古 ｠絶品 .

 

bee

bee 2 名詞 C 〘海 〙支索環 〘第一斜檣 （しよう ）の両側につけた木材で支索を固定する 〙.