transcription, транскрипция: [ kroʊ ]
( crows, crowing, crowed)
1.
A crow is a large black bird which makes a loud, harsh noise.
N-COUNT
2.
When a cock crows , it makes a loud sound, often early in the morning.
The cock crows and the dawn chorus begins.
VERB : V
3.
If you say that someone is crowing about something they have achieved or are pleased about, you disapprove of them because they keep telling people proudly about it. ( INFORMAL )
Edwards is already crowing about his assured victory...
We’ve seen them all crowing that the movement is dead.
= boast
VERB : V about/over n , V that [ disapproval ]
4.
If you say that a place is a particular distance away as the crow flies , you mean that it is that distance away measured in a straight line.
I live at Mesa, Washington, about 10 miles as the crow flies from Hanford.
PHRASE : oft amount PHR