Usually means: Shortest distance between two points.
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  1. as the crow flies: Merriam-Webster
  2. as the crow flies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. as the crow flies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. as the crow flies: Vocabulary.com
  5. as the crow flies: Wordnik
  6. as the crow flies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. as the crow flies: Wiktionary
  8. as the crow flies: Dictionary.com
  9. As the Crow Flies (album), As the Crow Flies (disambiguation), As the Crow Flies (novel), As the Crow Flies (play), As the Crow Flies, As the crow flies: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. as the crow flies: Rhymezone
  11. as the crow flies: FreeDictionary.org
  12. as the crow flies: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. as the crow flies: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. as the crow flies: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. as the crow flies: Idioms

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  1. as the crow flies: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (as the crow flies)

▸ adverb:  (idiomatic) In a straight line distance between two locations, as opposed to the road distance or over land distance.

Similar:
as the gull flies, linearly, directly, straightways, straight as an arrow, across, straight, acrosswise, gain, rectilinearly, more...

Opposite:
by road, by land, overland, circuitous, indirect

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Similar:
as the gull flies, linearly, directly, straightways, straight as an arrow, across, straight, acrosswise, gain, rectilinearly, more...

Opposite:
by road, by land, overland, circuitous, indirect



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