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| Main Entry: | beeline |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | direct route |
| Synonyms: | shortcut, shortest route, straight line, straightaway |
| Main Entry: | hurry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act, move speedily |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, barrel, beeline*, breeze, bullet, burst, bustle, dash, dig in, drive, expedite, fleet, flit, fly, goad, haste, hasten, hustle, jog, nip, push, quicken, race, rip, rocket, roll, run, rush, sally, scoot, scurry, smoke, speed, spur, urge, whirl, whisk, whiz, zip, be quick, bestir, get a move on, go like lightning, hurry up, lose no time, make haste, make short work of, make time, make tracks, shake a leg, speed up, step on gas, step on it, turn on steam, whish |
| Antonyms: | dally, dawdle, delay, procrastinate, rest, slow, stall, wait |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | route |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | path over which someone or something travels |
| Synonyms: | avenue, beat, beeline, circuit, course, detour, digression, direction, divergence, itinerary, journey, line, meandering, passage, pavement, pike, plot, program, rambling, range, road, round, run, tack, track, trail, wandering, way, byway, rounds, short cut |
| Notes: | a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an established line of travel or access - or a road, course, or way for travel from one place to another |
| Main Entry: | scoot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurry |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, beeline*, bolt, clear out, dart, dash, expedite, fly, hasten, hustle, move, race, run, rush, scamper, scurry, skedaddle, speed, split, spur, vamoose, whiz, zip, be quick, get a move on, go like lightning, hurry up, make haste, make time, make tracks, move fast, shake a leg, step on it |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | as the crow flies |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | shortest most direct route |
| Synonyms: | beeline, straight, direct route, in the direction of, most direct route, shortest route, straight as an arrow, straight line |
| Main Entry: | line of sight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unobstructed path |
| Synonyms: | beeline, view, line of vision, optical axis, sightline, straight shot, visible horizon |
| Main Entry: | directly |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | the shortest route |
| Synonyms: | beeline*, dead, direct, due, exactly, plump, precisely, right, slap, smack, straight, as a crow flies, slam bang, smack dab, straightly, undeviatingly, unswervingly, without deviation |
| Antonyms: | indirectly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | straight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aligned; not curved |
| Synonyms: | beeline*, consecutive, continuous, direct, erect, even, horizontal, inflexible, invariable, level, near, nonstop, perpendicular, plumb, precipitous, right, running, sheer, short, smooth, solid, square, straightforward, successive, through, true, unbroken, uninterrupted, unswerving, upright, vertical, collinear, in a line, in a row, in line, like an arrow, lineal, linear, rectilineal, rectilinear, unbent, uncurled, undeviating, undistorted, unrelieved |
| Antonyms: | curved, indirect, twisted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | direct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undeviating; uninterrupted |
| Synonyms: | beeline*, continuous, even, horizontal, nonstop, point-blank, right, straight, through, true, unbroken, unswerving, in bee line, in straight line, linear, not crooked, shortest, straight ahead, straightaway |
| Antonyms: | changing, deviating, indirect, intermittent, interrupted, varying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | direction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | course, route |
| Synonyms: | aim, angle, area, aspect, bearing, beeline*, bent, bias, current, drift, end, inclination, line, objective, orientation, outlook, path, proclivity, range, region, road, set, side, slant, spot, standpoint, stream, tack, tendency, tide, track, trajectory, trend, viewpoint, way, point of compass, that-a-way |
| Antonyms: | deviation, misdirection, wrong way |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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