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Discover LudwigThe word "honeycomb" is a correct and commonly used word in written English
You can use it when referring to the natural hexagonal structure of a bee's hive, or metaphorically to represent something intricate or complex. Example sentence: The engineers designed a giant honeycomb structure to act as a protective barrier.
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honeycomb
verb
To riddle something with holes, especially in such a pattern.
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The cherry on top of the cake (OK, doughnut) is a sea salt honeycomb shard topping, a perfect foil to the rich filling.
There's a range of flavours but the caramel custard and honeycomb remains the one to sharpen your elbows for.
Makes 16 squares For the rusty road 280g dark chocolate (70%) 250ml double cream 150g dried cranberries 75g raisins 75g dark chocolate buttons 75g white chocolate buttons 150g lightly salted, roasted peanuts For the honeycomb 200g white sugar 50g honey A splash of water 10g bicarbonate of soda 1 First make the honeycomb.
Carbon atoms clung together "very nicely" in a honeycomb lattice.
Guests slotted themselves into small, horizontal enclosures like bees into honeycomb, with space only for a bed and a tiny television.
The preliminary results show that it worked rather well.The mechanical cushioning system that Mr Kellas has designed has flexible hinges at the junction of each cell in the honeycomb.
Hence the interest in a new system that NASA, America's space agency, is testing to make helicopters safer.The idea comes from an expandable honeycomb cushion which Sotiris Kellas, an engineer at the agency's Langley Research Centre in Hampton, Virginia, came up with to help absorb the impact of landing a space capsule.
Covering a machine with honeycomb is much simpler.Indeed, though it is unlikely to replace airbags in cars, Mr Kellas's honeycomb may end up supplementing them by providing additional energy-absorbing areas.
On the other hand, Thompson's explanation of surface tension ignores the bees, which painstakingly build the honeycomb, and possess capabilities that are not yet fully understood.
This means that the lung tissue, rather than having many regular compartments like a honeycomb, develops large spaces coming to resemble a piece of Emmenthal cheese.
Engineers from both the honeycomb and the thin-mirror camps, who fought bitterly over the contract to make the Gemini mirrors, will be watching closely, to see which of the two pairs of telescopes produces the better images.The fourth project is rather different.
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