mile vs kilometer
Definitions
noun
- a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
- a footrace extending one mile
- a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
- a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)
- a large distance
Examples
Anybody who has ever been on a North Queensland pastoral lease knows that you can go 20, 30, 40 miles day after day and all you will see is a few brumbies and some wild pigs; you will not see any cattle anywhere.
The blame for this month's wet weather lies with the jet stream winds a few miles high.
Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
Definitions
noun
- a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)
Examples
The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me.
Spacewatch discovers hundreds of new kilometer-sized belt asteroids with every observing run.
The villages of San Juan and San Salvador Paricutín, the last just one kilometer from the rising volcano, were in danger, but nobody wanted to abandon land and home.
