Mile

Definition

mile /maÇl / n ၁။ (က) [C] ၁.၆ ကီလိုမီတာႏွင့္ ညီမွ်ေသာ အကြာအေဝး။ တစ္မိုင္။ a 40- mile journey to work ❍ about half a mile down the road/ outside the town ❍ an area of four square miles ❍ He drove on for mile after mile. ❍ a mile-long procession ❍ speeds reaching 180 miles an/ per hour ❍ a 20- mile- an- hour speed limit. See also MPH, NAUTICAL MILE (ခ) miles [pl] မိုင္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ။ တစ္ခြင္တစ္ျပင္။ cross miles of desert ❍ miles and miles of swamp. ၂။ [C usu pl ] ( infml ) အလြန္။ မနည္း။ တက္တက္စင္။ I feel miles (ie very much) better today. ❍ The two sides in the negotiations are still miles apart. ❍ be miles behind with one's work ❍ You missed the target by a mile/ by miles. ❍ They live miles away. ၃။ (esp the mile ) [sing] တစ္မိုင္ေျပးပြဲ။ He can run a four- minute mile. ❏ be miles away [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ႏွင့္ ကင္းလြတ္ ၍ အေတြးထဲ နစ္ေနသည္။ ❏ miles from anywhere/ nowhere [ IDM ] ( infml ) လူသူမနီးရာ။ ေဝးလံေခါင္ဖ်ားေဒသ။ ❏ run a mile (from sb/ sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္ႀကိဳးတည္း ေျပးသည္။ He'd run a mile if anyone asked him to marry them. ❏ see/tell sth a mile off [ IDM ] ( infml ) အေဝးကပင္ ျမင္ႏိုင္သည္။ သိသာသည္။ He's lying—you can see that a mile off. ❏ stand/ stick out a mile [ IDM ] သိသာသည္။ ျမင္သာသည္။ Her honesty sticks out a mile.

Examples

1. The walk is about ten miles and on level ground.
2. The town is about forty miles southeast of Budapest.
3. [miles long/deep/high etc] : The peninsula is 13 miles long.
4. They live miles from the nearest town.
5. It was 2 am and the airport was still miles away.
6. [for miles] : The beach stretched for miles in each direction.
7. It’s one of the best schools for miles around.
8. [miles from anywhere/nowhere] : We were miles from anywhere with no money and no food.
9. This is her best film to date by a country mile.