English-Hungarian translations for mile

• mérföld
  Az Egyesült Királyságban néhány bevásárlóközpontban nemrégiben bevezetett ("vásároljanak a közelben” jelentésű) "élelmiszer mérföld” címke nem kielégítő és félrevezető információt nyújthat. The 'food miles' labels currently used by some UK supermarkets are unsatisfactory and can give misleading information.
  Ellenőrizetlen húst importálunk több ezer mérföld távolságból a helyi termelők költségére. Unregulated meat is imported from thousands of miles away at the expense of native farmers.
  Emellett a fogyasztóknak is szólni kellene, ha a hús, amelyet megesznek, nem helyi, hanem több száz mérföld távolságból érkezik. Furthermore, consumers must be told if the meat they are eating is not local but comes from hundreds of miles away.

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

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