Definition of "bee" []

• Any of several winged, hairy-bodied, usually stinging insects of the superfamily Apoidea in the order Hymenoptera, including both solitary and social species and characterized by sucking and chewing mouthparts for gathering nectar and pollen. (noun)
• A bumblebee. (noun)
• A honeybee. (noun)
• A social gathering where people combine work, competition, and amusement: a quilting bee. (noun)
• A bee in (one's) bonnet An impulsive, often eccentric turn of mind; a notion. (idiom)

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• "_There is nothing I wouldn't do for a bee -- a reasonable bee_"
• "We'll have a bee, and get a lot done, 'Maude said; and she pressed into the _bee_ her father and Dick, and Billy, and Fred"
• "Mr. Changizi illustrates his message with charts and graphs and even a readout that shows how the sound measurements for a book striking a table directly or hitting a "wrinkly paper" on a table resemble the measurements for the sound of the author saying the word "bee" and the word "pee.""