单词 | crow-flight |
释义 | > as lemmascrow-flight crow-flight n. a direct course, a straight line (cf. sense 3c); also quasi-adv. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > a straight course > [noun] cut1577 forthright1609 airline1813 beeline1828 crow-fly1846 crow-flight1875 1875 G. M. Hopkins Let. 20 Feb. (1935) 30 A long crow-flight is between us. 1885 Science 7 Aug. 108/2 We clambered over the hills and spurs in the usual crow-flight of the Karens. 1964 Economist 17 Oct. 258/1 The road..runs crow-flight straight. < as lemmas |
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