as the crow flies

Speech parts

1. as the crow flies - Adverb

2. as the crow flies - Phrase

Meaning

by the shortest and most direct route

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Synonyms

right directly linearly headlong straightway lineally slap bang unswervingly straightly non-stop undeviatingly as a crow flies without deviating in a beeline by the shortest route

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Antonyms

indirectly diagonally circularly forked spirally squint-eyed

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Examples

it's 10 miles as the crow flies Source: Internet

A computer program uses the postal codes of the target address and the branches to list the closest branches in order of distance as the crow flies (or, if used in conjunction with streetmap software, road distance). Source: Internet

Distances to other cities These distances are as the crow flies and therefore not represent actual overland distances. Source: Internet

Relations between p -norms The grid distance or rectilinear distance (sometimes called the "Manhattan distance") between two points is never shorter than the length of the line segment between them (the Euclidean or "as the crow flies" distance). Source: Internet

‘By the time we reached Roman Road, only half a mile as the crow flies from our starting point, the bus was jam-packed full and sailing past the waiting queues.’ Source: Internet

Here, I’ve shown Maps calculating distance as the crow flies (pink) versus a calculated route (blue). Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

as the crow flies

Close letter words and terms

as the circumstance arises as the circumstances require as the consequence as the day is long as the days go by as the days go on