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Bee line

Bee line \Bee" line`\ The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line. ``A bee line for the brig.''
--Kane.

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Bee line

A bee line means taking the shortest route or a straight line between two points (" As the crow flies"):

In transportation:

  • Bee-Line Bus System of Westchester County, New York, United States
  • Bee Line Buzz Company, a former bus operator in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
  • Bee Line Expressway, an earlier name of Florida State Road 528 east of Orlando in the United States
  • Beeline Highway (disambiguation), several highways
  • Beeline, or Okmulgee Beeline, the section of U.S. Route 75 from Tulsa to Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States
  • Bee Line Railroad, a railway in western Indiana, United States; serving Warren County and Benton County
  • Butte Regional Transit, a public transit system in Butte County, California, United States
  • , the road, rail and ferry route between Hamburg (Germany) and Copenhagen (Denmark)

  • BEE-LINE, Brussels Airlines callsign

and other meanings:

  • Beeline (beekeeping), a method for locating a feral bee hive
  • Beeline (brand), a telecommunications brand by VimpelCom Ltd. used in Russia, other post-Soviet states, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam
  • Vermilion snapper, a species of fish
  • Beeline (album), a 2002 album by Peter Case
  • Beeline (software company)

Usage examples of "bee line".

My ball made a bee line for the beach, bounced on a rock, and disappeared into a cave.

If you are good at it, and I am, you can find the bee line and follow it back to the bee tree.

This he struggled through, and ran toward the college, taking a bee line.