Tra từ mile - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

mile [mile miles] BrE [maɪl] NAmE [maɪl] noun
1. countable 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
• The nearest bank is about half a mile down the road.
• We did about 30 miles a day on our cycling trip.
•The car must have been doing at least 100 miles an hour.
• (BrE)My car does 35 miles to the gallon.
• (NAmE)My car gets 35 miles to the gallon.
see also Air Miles, ↑mph, ↑nautical mile
2. milesplural 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.
3. countable, usually plural (informal)very much; far
•I'm feeling miles better today, thanks.
•I'm miles behind with my work.
•She's taller than you by a mile.
4. the milesingular a race over one mile
•He ran the mile in less than four minutes.
•a four-minute mile
more at give sb an inch (and they'll take a mile/yard) at ↑inch _n., a miss is as good as a mile at ↑miss _n.
Idioms: ↑go the extra mile ▪ ↑miles away ▪ ↑miles from anywhere ▪ ↑run a mile ▪ see/spot/tell/smell something a mile off ▪ ↑stand out a mile

Word Origin:
Old English mīl, based on Latin mil(l)ia, plural of mille ‘thousand’ (the original Roman unit of distance was mille passus ‘a thousand paces’).

Example Bank:
•Fell-runners who are out to win can cover the three miles in just over 15 minutes.
•Good runners can cover the three miles in just over 15 minutes.
•His thoughts were racing a mile a minute.
•She was talking a mile a minute.
•The country's Red Sea coast stretches some 500 miles.
•The police stopped them doing 100 miles per hour on the motorway.
•a willingness to go the extra mile to make a project work