BEELINE

beeline

(noun) the most direct route; “he made a beeline for the bathroom”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

beeline (plural beelines)

A very direct or quick path or trip.

(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)

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

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

24 May 2025

EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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