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Definition 2024

as_the_crow_flies

as the crow flies

English

Adverb

as the crow flies ‎(not comparable)

(idiomatic) In a straight line distance between two locations, as opposed to the road distance or over land distance.
It is 15 kilometers as the crow flies.

Translations

in a straight line

Chinese:
Mandarin: 筆直地 (zh), 笔直地 (zh) ‎(bǐzhí de)
Dutch: hemelsbreed (nl)
Finnish: linnuntietä
French: à vol d'oiseau (fr)
German: Luftlinie (de) f
Hebrew: בקו אווירי m ‎(be'kav aviri)

Hungarian: toronyiránt
Irish: i bhfoirm líne díreach trasna tíre
Italian: in linea d'aria
Portuguese: em linha reta
Russian: напряму́ю (ru) ‎(naprjamúju), по прямо́й (ru) ‎(po prjamój)
Spanish: a vuelo de pájaro
Swedish: fågelvägen (sv)
Turkish: kuş uçuşu (tr)

See also

beeline
displacement (physics)