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Definition: BEE LINE |
BEE LINE1. The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Direction | Adverb: towards; on the road, on the high road to; en avant; versus, to; hither, thither, whither; directly; straight as an arrow, forwards as an arrow; point blank; in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight line with; in a line with; full tilt at, as the crow flies. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BEE LINE |
| English words defined with "BEE LINE": leaf-cutter, leaf-cutter bee, leaf-cutting bee. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bee line.ru | 37 |
bee line | 27 |
bee line westchester | 15 |
bee line book | 5 |
bee line system | 4 |
5star bee line | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BEE LINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | على طول (along, for ever, over, right, straight), خط مباشر, أقرب المسالك. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tout droit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קו ישר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyílegyenesen megy valahova, nyílegyenes vonal, légvonal (bee-line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eebay inelay o caminho mais curto. (various references) linie dreaptã (direct line, right line, straight). (various references) найкоротша відстань між двома точками. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: beeline. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-i-l-n" | |
-2 letters: belie, leben. | |
-3 letters: been, bene, bile, bine, blin, lien, line. | |
-4 letters: bee, bel, ben, bin, eel, lee, lei, lib, lie, lin, neb, nee, nib, nil. | |
-5 letters: be, bi, el, en, in, li, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-e-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: beelined, beelines. | |
+2 letters: belemnite. | |
+3 letters: bejeweling, belemnites, defensible, ebullience, edibleness, enfeebling, extendible, extensible, inselberge, unbeliever. | |
+4 letters: bedevilment, beguilement, bejewelling, belligerent, descendible, ebulliences, hereinbelow, nonbeliever, preventible, unbelievers. | |
+5 letters: bedevilments, beguilements, beleaguering, belittlement, belligerence, belligerency, belligerents, beneficently, beseechingly, bewilderment, blearinesses, determinable, ebulliencies, ediblenesses, enviableness, feebleminded, impenetrable, indefeasible, indefectible, indefensible, ineffaceable, limbernesses, linebreeding, nimblenesses, nonbelievers, reliableness, renegotiable, sedimentable, sensibleness, terribleness, unbelievable, underbellies, unreviewable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 45 4C 49 4E 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01000101 00100000 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E E   L I N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 0045 004C 0049 004E 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)363939246434839 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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