mile

1.760 yarda veya yaklaşık 1.609 kilometreye eşit bir mesafe birimi

A unit of distance equal to 1,760 yards or approximately 1.609 kilometers.

• The school is about two miles from here.
• She ran a mile in under six minutes.
• The speed limit is 30 miles per hour.
• The astronomical unit represents approximately ninety-three million miles, the average distance between Earth and the Sun.
• Geologists determined that the fault line extends for over five hundred miles beneath the continental shelf.
• Urban infrastructure planners estimate that adding just one mile of subway track costs taxpayers upward of one billion dollars.

Çok büyük bir miktar veya mesafe; büyük bir farkla

A very large amount or distance; by a great margin (used informally for emphasis).

• This car is miles better than my old one.
• You're miles ahead of the other candidates.
• We were miles away from finding a solution.

Eş anlamlılar: far, significantly