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# crow

noun (a crow, crows); verb (crow, crows, crowed (or crew, old), crowing)

«crow» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A crow is a large black bird with a loud harsh call. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/#m1)
2. To crow (of a rooster) is to make its loud morning cry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/#m2)
3. To crow is to boast happily about winning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/#m3)
4. «As the crow flies» means in a straight line. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/#m4)

### In the lessons

In nature and science (crows are clever birds), fables (The Crow and the Pitcher), farm stories, maths distance («as the crow flies»).

### Examples

- A crow sat on the fence cawing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/#x1)
- The rooster crowed at dawn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/#x2)
- Stop crowing about your score. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/#x3)
- Crows can use sticks as tools. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/#x4)
- The town is ten miles away as the crow flies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/#x5)
- In the fable, the crow dropped stones into the jug. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/#x6)
- Just then a Crow flew by. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/#x7)

### Note

Crow's feet = small lines near the eyes. «Crow over» = boast. In maths, «as the crow flies» is the straight-line distance, shorter than by road.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «crow» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«crow» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/crow.html) on Mova free.