English-French translations for mile

• mille
  La stratégie Europe 2020 est à mille lieues de cela. EU 2020 is miles away from this.
  La Commission était à mille lieues de cela. The Commission was miles away from that.
  Celle-ci est limitée à 20 milles nautiques entre deux ports. This is limited to 20 nautical miles between two ports.
• mile
  Les distances au Royaume-Uni sont en miles et les distances de freinage en yards. UK distances are in miles, with stopping distances in yards.
  En outre le plan de modernisation ne remplit même pas toutes les conditions post-three-mile-island . Furthermore, the modernization programme does not even meet all post-Three Mile Island requirements.
  Vous devriez parcourir 300 000 miles par an. You are expected to do 300 000 miles per year.

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

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• smiley
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