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# mile

«mile» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long unit of distance; walking a mile takes about 20…** — 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 (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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mile/#m1)

2) «Miles» can mean a very long way, as in «miles from home». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mile/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mile/#x1)
- The town is 12 miles away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mile/#x2)
- She drove 60 miles per hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mile/#x3)
- How many miles did he run in a week? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mile/#x4)
- The speed limit near the school is 20 miles per hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mile/#x5)
- We walked a mile to the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mile/#x6)
- Grandma lives miles from the nearest shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mile/#x7)
- A marathon is about 26 miles long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mile/#x8)
- She always goes the extra mile to help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mile/#x9)
- A mile is longer than a kilometre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mile/#x10)
- By evening he was miles away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mile/#x11)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/8/)
- [All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.» Everyone looks at Alice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/7/)
- [She is not a mile high, she says, and anyway he just made that rule up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/8/)
- [Toad struts along the high road, miles from home, singing his own praises: brain has beaten brute force!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/0/)
- [Miles later, on a wide common, he finds a man by a caravan with a pot of stew bubbling over a fire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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