MILE


Meaning of MILE in English

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ nautical

▪ square

VERB + MILE

▪ cover , cycle ( BrE ), do , drive , fly , go , hike , ride , run , swim , travel , trudge , walk

Good runners can cover the three ~s in just over 15 minutes.

▪ clock ( esp. AmE ), clock up , log

Altogether on the trip we clocked up over 1 800 ~s.

▪ span , stretch

The country's Red Sea coast stretches some 500 ~s.

PHRASES

▪ ~s an hour , ~s per hour

The police stopped them doing 100 ~s per hour.

▪ a ~ a minute (= very fast) ( esp. AmE )

She was talking a ~ a minute.

His thoughts were racing a ~ a minute.

▪ go the extra ~

a willingness to go the extra ~ ( = make an extra effort ) to make a project work

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .