beeline
See also: bee-line
English
WOTD – 15 August 2015
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Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - IPA(key): /ˈbiːlaɪn/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -iːlaɪn
Noun
beeline (plural beelines)
- A very direct or quick path or trip.
- The children made a beeline to the swimming pool.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483:, Episode 16
- Discussing these and kindred topics they made a beeline across the back of the Customhouse and passed under the Loop Line bridge where a brazier of coke burning in front of a sentrybox or something like one attracted their rather lagging footsteps.
- (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.
Translations
straight course, ignoring established paths of travel
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