mile
part of speech
noun (mile, miles)
meaning for a pupil
1) A mile is a long unit of distance; walking a mile takes about 20 minutes. A mile is 1760 yards. A mile is 5280 feet. tree →
2) «Miles» can mean a very long way, as in «miles from home». tree →
sense in the lessons
a unit of distance for walking, running, driving; often with «per hour» or «each day»; road signs and speed limits in the USA and the UK use miles; phrases «miles per hour» (mph), «miles away», «go the extra mile»
examples
- He ran 3 miles each day. tree →
- The town is 12 miles away. tree →
- She drove 60 miles per hour. tree →
- How many miles did he run in a week? tree →
- The speed limit near the school is 20 miles per hour. tree →
- We walked a mile to the lake. tree →
- Grandma lives miles from the nearest shop. tree →
- A marathon is about 26 miles long. tree →
- She always goes the extra mile to help. tree →
- A mile is longer than a kilometre. tree →
- By evening he was miles away. tree →
note
A unit, not a thing counted. «miles each day» or «miles per hour» is a rate (multiply by days or hours). Trap: a week is 7 days. 1 mile is about 1.6 kilometers. «Go the extra mile» means to do more than you must, not to walk.
In the corpora
- Sharks smell blood well, but the story that they can smell one drop from miles away is exaggerated.
- All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.» Everyone looks at Alice.
- She is not a mile high, she says, and anyway he just made that rule up.
- Toad struts along the high road, miles from home, singing his own praises: brain has beaten brute force!
- Miles later, on a wide common, he finds a man by a caravan with a pot of stew bubbling over a fire.
Trees and pragmatics
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