A bee line means taking the shortest route or a straight line between two points ("As the crow flies"):
- Beeline, a method for locating a feral bee hive
In transportation:
- Bee-Line Bus System of Westchester County, New York, United States
- Bee Line Buzz Company, a former bus operator in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
- Bee Line Expressway, an earlier name of Florida State Road 528 east of Orlando in the United States
- Beeline Highway, Arizona State Route 87 in the United States
- Beeline, or Okmulgee Beeline, the section of U.S. Route 75 from Tulsa to Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States
- Bee Line Railroad, a railway in western Indiana, United States; serving Warren County and Benton County
- Butte Regional Transit, a public transit system in Butte County, California, United States
- Vogelfluglinie, the road, rail and ferry route between Hamburg (Germany) and Copenhagen (Denmark)
- BEE-LINE, Brussels Airlines callsign
and other meanings:
- Beeline (telecommunications), a Russian telecommunications company
- Vermilion snapper, a species of fish
- Beeline (album), a 2002 album by Peter Case
Famous quotes containing the words bee and/or line:
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—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“It is a great many years since at the outset of my career I had to think seriously what life had to offer that was worth having. I came to the conclusion that the chief good for me was freedom to learn, think, and say what I pleased, when I pleased. I have acted on that conviction... and though strongly, and perhaps wisely, warned that I should probably come to grief, I am entirely satisfied with the results of the line of action I have adopted.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)