word-vault/dist/data/cards/mi/mile.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "mile",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a unit for measuring distance equal to 1 609 metres or 1 760 yards",
            "labels": "(British English)(North American English)(figurative)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a 20-mile drive to work"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an area of four square miles"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a mile-long procession"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The nearest bank is about half a mile down the road."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The boys were left stranded two miles from home."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He runs 10 miles every morning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We did about 30 miles a day on our cycling trip."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The car must have been doing at least 100 miles an hour."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My car does 35 miles to the gallon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My car gets 35 miles to the gallon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His thoughts were racing **a mile a minute** *(= very fast)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She drives about 50 miles a day."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most parents travel miles across London to reach the club."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They live 40 miles from the nearest supermarket."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She crossed hundreds of miles of frozen tundra on a dog sled."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fell-runners who are out to win can cover the three miles in just over 15 minutes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Good runners can cover the three miles in just over 15 minutes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was talking a mile a minute."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The country's Red Sea coast stretches some 500 miles."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The police stopped them doing 100 miles per hour on the motorway."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Maths and measurement"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["nautical", "square"],
                "verb + mile": ["cover", "cycle", "do"],
                "phrases": ["miles an hour", "miles per hour", "a mile a minute"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a large area or a long distance",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**miles and miles** of desert"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There isn't a house for miles around here."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm not walking—it's **miles away**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was a wonderful journey through miles and miles of lush green jungle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's taller than you by a mile."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a race over one mile",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He ran the mile in less than four minutes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a four-minute mile"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be thinking deeply about something and not aware of what is happening around you",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that if you allow some people a small amount of freedom or power they will see you as weak and try to take a lot more",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make a special effort to achieve something, help somebody, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a willingness to go the extra mile to make a project work"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "in a place that is a long way from a town and surrounded only by a lot of open country, sea, etc.",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We broke down miles from anywhere."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "there is no real difference between only just failing in something and failing in it badly because the result is still the same",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Difficulty and failure"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to show that you are very frightened of doing something",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to see or realize something very easily and quickly",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘He's a con man,’ Bob said. ‘I can spot them a mile off.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "After twenty years in the police she could smell a liar a mile off."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be very obvious or easy to notice",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It stood out a mile that she was lying."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/maɪl/",
                "audio": "mi/mile/mile__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/maɪl/",
                "audio": "mi/mile/mile__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English mīl, based on Latin mil(l)ia, plural of mille ‘thousand’ (the original Roman unit of distance was mille passus ‘a thousand paces’)."
}