Beeline

English

Alternative forms

• bee-line

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Noun

Beeline (plural Beelines)

1. A very direct or quick path or trip.
2. (mining, chiefly historical) A dynamite fuse made with a small quantity of dynamite powder along its length, so that the spark travels quickly and at a specific known rate.

Verb

Beeline (third-person singular simple present beelines, present participle beelining, simple past and past participle beelined)

1. To travel in a straight course, ignoring established paths of travel. To take a shortcut.

See also

• as the crow flies

Thesaurus

air line, axis, chord, cut, cutoff, diagonal, diameter, direct line, directrix, edge, great-circle course, normal, perpendicular, radius, radius vector, right line, secant, segment, shortcut, shortest way, side, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streamline, tangent, transversal, vector