Bee Line

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:

    “Like the bee that now is blown,
    Honey-heavy on my hand,
    From his toppling tansy-throne
    In the green tempestuous land—”
    —Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)

    “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Job 38:4 -7.

    God, to Job.