See as the crow flies in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for as the crow flies meaning in English (5.7kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "beeline"
},
"expansion": "beeline",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From the fact that while crows fly to their source of food, their flight bypasses obstacles like rivers and terrain. Compare beeline.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "as the crow flies (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Hebrew terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Corvids",
"orig": "en:Corvids",
"parents": [
"Corvoid birds",
"Perching birds",
"Birds",
"Vertebrates",
"Chordates",
"Animals",
"Lifeforms",
"All topics",
"Life",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "It is 15 kilometers as the crow flies.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 54",
"text": "ʽFire,ʼ said Bill, ʽin the form of a common cowshed, is burnin' about nor'-nor'-east as the crow flies.ʼ",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1964 April, “Beyond the Channel: Jugoslavia: New line to Adriatic”, in Modern Railways, page 281",
"text": "The distance from Sarajevo to Ploce is 75 miles as the crow flies, but because of the difficult terrain the new line is 120 miles long.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020 April 22, Barry Doe, “Disappointed at lack of information on LNER website”, in Rail, page 65",
"text": "Then it told me the distance between the two is 331 miles, which is totally irrelevant as that's as the crow flies and not the 393 miles of the rail route.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In a straight line distance between two locations, as opposed to the road distance or over land distance."
],
"id": "en-as_the_crow_flies-en-adv-ZG6kryfj",
"links": [
[
"distance",
"distance"
],
[
"locations",
"locations"
],
[
"road",
"road"
],
[
"land",
"land"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) In a straight line distance between two locations, as opposed to the road distance or over land distance."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "beeline"
},
{
"topics": [
"physics",
"physical-sciences",
"natural-sciences"
],
"word": "displacement"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "as the gull flies"
},
{
"word": "as the raven flies"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"not-comparable"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "筆直地"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bǐzhí de",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "笔直地"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vzdušnou čarou"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "i fugleflugt"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "hemelsbreed"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "linnulennult"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "linnuntietä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "à vol d’oiseau"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Luftlinie"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "se eftheía grammí",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "σε ευθεία γραμμή"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "be'kav aviri",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "בקו אווירי"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "toronyiránt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "légvonalban"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "i bhfoirm líne díreach trasna tíre"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "in linea d'aria"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "i luftlinje"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "i fugleflukt"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "w linii prostej"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "em linha reta"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "naprjamúju",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "напряму́ю"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "po prjamój",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "по прямо́й"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "vzdušnou čiarou"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "a vuelo de pájaro"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "fågelvägen"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "kuş uçuşu"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"as the crow flies"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-as the crow flies.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f3/En-au-as_the_crow_flies.ogg/En-au-as_the_crow_flies.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/En-au-as_the_crow_flies.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "as the crow flies"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "beeline"
},
"expansion": "beeline",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From the fact that while crows fly to their source of food, their flight bypasses obstacles like rivers and terrain. Compare beeline.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "as the crow flies (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"related": [
{
"word": "beeline"
},
{
"topics": [
"physics",
"physical-sciences",
"natural-sciences"
],
"word": "displacement"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adverbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English uncomparable adverbs",
"Hebrew terms with redundant script codes",
"en:Corvids"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "It is 15 kilometers as the crow flies.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 54",
"text": "ʽFire,ʼ said Bill, ʽin the form of a common cowshed, is burnin' about nor'-nor'-east as the crow flies.ʼ",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1964 April, “Beyond the Channel: Jugoslavia: New line to Adriatic”, in Modern Railways, page 281",
"text": "The distance from Sarajevo to Ploce is 75 miles as the crow flies, but because of the difficult terrain the new line is 120 miles long.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020 April 22, Barry Doe, “Disappointed at lack of information on LNER website”, in Rail, page 65",
"text": "Then it told me the distance between the two is 331 miles, which is totally irrelevant as that's as the crow flies and not the 393 miles of the rail route.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In a straight line distance between two locations, as opposed to the road distance or over land distance."
],
"links": [
[
"distance",
"distance"
],
[
"locations",
"locations"
],
[
"road",
"road"
],
[
"land",
"land"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) In a straight line distance between two locations, as opposed to the road distance or over land distance."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"not-comparable"
],
"wikipedia": [
"as the crow flies"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-as the crow flies.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f3/En-au-as_the_crow_flies.ogg/En-au-as_the_crow_flies.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/En-au-as_the_crow_flies.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "as the gull flies"
},
{
"word": "as the raven flies"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "筆直地"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bǐzhí de",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "笔直地"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vzdušnou čarou"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "i fugleflugt"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "hemelsbreed"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "linnulennult"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "linnuntietä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "à vol d’oiseau"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Luftlinie"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "se eftheía grammí",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "σε ευθεία γραμμή"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "be'kav aviri",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "בקו אווירי"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "toronyiránt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "légvonalban"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "i bhfoirm líne díreach trasna tíre"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "in linea d'aria"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "i luftlinje"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "i fugleflukt"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "w linii prostej"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "em linha reta"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "naprjamúju",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "напряму́ю"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "po prjamój",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "по прямо́й"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "vzdušnou čiarou"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "a vuelo de pájaro"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "fågelvägen"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "in a straight line",
"word": "kuş uçuşu"
}
],
"word": "as the crow flies"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.