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bee

1

[ bee ]

noun

  1. any hymenopterous insect of the superfamily Apoidea, including social and solitary species of several families, as the bumblebee, honeybee, etc.
  2. the common honeybee, Apis mellifera.
  3. a community social gathering in order to perform some task, engage in a contest, etc.:

    a sewing bee;

    a spelling bee;

    a husking bee.



bee

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[ bee ]

noun

  1. Also called bee block. Nautical. a piece of hardwood, bolted to the side of a bowsprit, through which to reeve stays.
  2. Obsolete. a metal ring or bracelet.

B.E.E.

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abbreviation for

  1. Bachelor of Electrical Engineering.

BEE

1

abbreviation for

  1. Black Economic Empowerment: a government policy aimed at encouraging and supporting shareholding by black people
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

bee

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/ 产颈藧 /

noun

  1. any hymenopterous insect of the superfamily Apoidea , which includes social forms such as the honeybee and solitary forms such as the carpenter bee See also bumblebee mason bee apian
  2. busy bee
    a person who is industrious or has many things to do
  3. have a bee in one's bonnet
    to be preoccupied or obsessed with an idea
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

bee

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/ 产颈藧 /

noun

  1. a social gathering for a specific purpose, as to carry out a communal task or hold competitions

    quilting bee

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

bee

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/ 产颈藧 /

noun

  1. nautical a small sheave with one cheek removed and the pulley and other cheek fastened flat to a boom or another spar, used for reeving outhauls or stays
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 产别别顎僱颈办别顎 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of bee1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English be(e); Old English 产墨辞, b膿o; cognate with Dutch bij, Old Saxon b墨, bini, Old High German 产墨补, bini ( German Biene ), Old Norse 产测虅; with other suffixes, Lithuanian 产矛迟臈, Old Prussian bitte, Old Church Slavonic 产沫肠丑别濒补, Old Irish bech; the unattested bhi- is a North European stem with the same distribution as wax 1, apple; put the bee on is probably an allusion to sting in sense 鈥渄upe, cheat鈥

Origin of bee2

First recorded before 1050; Middle English bei, be, bih 鈥渞颈苍驳,鈥 Old English 产脓补驳, b膿ah, b膿g; cognate with Old Frisian 产腻驳, Old Saxon, Middle Low German 产艒驳, Old High German boug, Old Norse baugr, Sanskrit bhoga-; akin to bow 1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of bee1

Old English 产墨辞 ; related to Old Norse 产盈 , Old High German 产墨补 , Dutch bij , Swedish bi

Origin of bee2

C18: perhaps from dialect bean neighbourly help, from Old English 产脓苍 boon

Origin of bee3

Old English 产脓补驳 ; related to Old High German boug ring, Old Norse bogi a bow
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. have a bee in one's bonnet,
    1. to be obsessed with one idea.
    2. to have eccentric or fanciful ideas or schemes:

      Our aunt obviously has a bee in her bonnet, but we're very fond of her.

  2. put the bee on, Informal: Older Use. to try to obtain money from, as for a loan or donation:

    My brother just put the bee on me for another $10.

  3. the bee's knees, Older Slang. (especially in the 1920s) a person or thing that is wonderful, great, or marvelous:

    Her new roadster is simply the bee's knees.

More idioms and phrases containing bee

In addition to the idiom beginning with bee , also see birds and the bees ; busy as a beaver (bee) ; make a beeline for ; none of one's business (beeswax) .
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Example Sentences

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The method - called oral immunotherapy - is already proven to work for allergies to pollen, wasp and bee stings.

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鈥淭hey have colonized my imagination like a swarm of bees,鈥 he writes of his teenage self.

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鈥淲e have a sense that bees are important to our economy and provide us with useful services.鈥

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Since then, Black Mirror has taken us from creepy memory devices, phone implants and robotic bees to actors-turned-werewolves.

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Now their gardens and the Coplens鈥 are alive with pollinators such as butterflies, bees and hummingbirds as well as other beneficial insects we don鈥檛 usually consider.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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