📖 Определения и значения для слова mile
📒 a unit for measuring distance equal to 1 609 metres or 1 760 yards
- a 20-mile drive to work
- an area of four square miles
- a mile-long procession
📒 a large area or a long distance
- miles and miles of desert
- There isn't a house for miles around here.
- I'm not walking—it's miles away.
📒 a race over one mile
- He ran the mile in less than four minutes.
- a four-minute mile
📒 to be thinking deeply about something and not aware of what is happening around you
📒 used to say that if you allow some people a small amount of freedom or power they will see you as weak and try to take a lot more
📒 to make a special effort to achieve something, help somebody, etc.
- a willingness to go the extra mile to make a project work
📒 in a place that is a long way from a town and surrounded only by a lot of open country, sea, etc.
- We broke down miles from anywhere.
📒 there is no real difference between only just failing in something and failing in it badly because the result is still the same
📒 to show that you are very frightened of doing something
📒 to see or realize something very easily and quickly
- He's wearing a wig—you can see it a mile off.
- After twenty years in the police she could smell a liar a mile off.
📒 to be very obvious or easy to notice
- It stood out a mile that she was lying.