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# crow

«crow» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large black bird with a loud harsh call** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) A crow is a large black bird with a loud harsh call. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/#m2)

3) To crow is to boast happily about winning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/#m3)

4) «As the crow flies» means in a straight line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/#m4)

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

### In the corpora

- [Crows in Japan drop walnuts at traffic lights for cars to crack, and crows can remember a human face for years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/10/)
- [Foxes are clever, but crows, ravens and parrots solve puzzles that need several steps; cartoon personalities are made up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right/17/)
- [Owls are expert hunters with superb hearing, but crows and parrots solve much harder puzzles than owls.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right/14/)
- [Some crows in Japan drop nuts at pedestrian crossings for cars to crack and pick them up safely when the lights stop the traffic.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots/5/)
- [Owls are skilled hunters but not especially good at puzzles; crows and parrots do much better.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.