Meaning

1 senses

  1. To travel in a straight line, ignoring established paths of travel.

Examples

6 sentences

  1. Tom made a beeline for home.

    ruТом направился прямиком домой. — sharptoothed

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  2. Yanni made a beeline for the bathroom.

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  3. The kids made a beeline for the TV.

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  4. As soon as work is over, he makes a beeline for the pub.

    deSobald die Arbeit beendet ist, geht er schnurstracks in die Kneipe. — Manfredo

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  5. Diego took no chance fighting that man and made a beeline to the exit door.

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Origin

From bee + line, due to the belief that a bee returns to its hive in a straight course, or

From bee + line, due to the belief that a bee returns to its hive in a straight course, originally an Americanism.

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Forms

beelines, beelining, beelined, beelined
Base formbeeline · to beeline
3rd person singularbeelines
Present participlebeelining
Past simplebeelined
Past participlebeelined

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybeeline
he, she, itbeelines

Past simpleLesson

all personsbeelined

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave beelined
he, she, ithas beelined

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill beeline

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
beehivebeekeeperbeekeepingbeemerbeepbeeper

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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