as the crow flies

English

Adverb

as the crow flies (not comparable)

1. (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 (cmn), 笔直地 (cmn) (bǐzhí de) Dutch: hemelsbreed (nl) Finnish: linnuntietä (fi) French: à vol d'oiseau (fr)

German: Luftlinie (de) f. Hebrew: בקו אווירי (he) (be'kav aviri) m. Hungarian: toronyiránt (hu) Swedish: fågelvägen (sv) Turkish: kuş uçuşu (tr)

See also

• beeline
• displacement (physics)