English-Dutch translations for mile

• mijl
  Pas later heeft de Europese Unie deze zone uitgebreid tot 200 mijl. It was subsequently that the European Union extended it to 200 miles.
  De nieuwe Slowaakse regering wil de extra mijl afleggen. The new Slovak Government is ready to go the extra mile.
  Dit voorstel is gebaseerd op een SOLAS-verordening voor 30 mijl. This proposal is based on a SOLAS requirement for 30 miles.

Definition of mile

• The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards
• Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet
• Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese or Arabic mile (al-mīl
• Any similarly large distance
• A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters
• One mile per hour, as a measure of speed

Examples

• The shot missed by a mile
• The runners competed in the mile
• five miles over the speed limit

Related words

• smile
• smiley
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