passenger mile in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for passenger mile in the English»French Dictionary

I.mile [Brit mʌɪl, Am maɪl] N

1. mile (unit of length):

mile

mile m (= 1609 mètres)

it's 50 miles away

≈ c'est à 80 kilomètres d'ici

a 10 mile journey

≈ un trajet de 15 kilomètres

she lives 10 miles from me

≈ elle habite à 15 kilomètres de chez moi

half a mile

≈ 800 mètres

60 miles per hour

≈ 100 kilomètres à l'heure

to do over 50 miles to the gallon

≈ consommer moins de six litres aux cent

2. mile fig:

to walk for miles

marcher pendant des kilomètres

to stretch for miles

s'étendre sur des kilomètres

it's miles away!

c'est au bout du monde

miles from anywhere

loin de tout

not a million miles from here/from the truth

pas très loin d'ici/de la vérité

to see/recognize sth a mile off

voir/reconnaître qc de loin

you could smell it a mile off

on pouvait le sentir à cent lieues à la ronde

to stand out a mile , stick out a mile

sauter aux yeux

I'd run a mile

je prendrais mes jambes à mon cou

to be miles away (daydreaming)

être complètement ailleurs

3. mile (race):

the mile

le mile

the 4 minute mile

le mile en 4 minutes

II.miles N

miles npl (as intensifier):

miles bigger, more important etc

beaucoup

miles better

bien meilleur

to be miles out (wrong) estimate, figure:

être complètement faux

to be miles out person:

être très loin du compte

III.mile [Brit mʌɪl, Am maɪl]

a miss is as good as a mile prov

rater, même de peu, c'est rater

to go the extra mile

en faire plus

to talk a mile a minute Am

parler à toute vitesse

passenger [Brit ˈpasɪndʒə, Am ˈpæsɪndʒər] N

1. passenger:

passenger (in car, boat, plane, ship)

passager/-ère m/f

passenger (in train, bus, coach, tube)

voyageur/-euse m/f

2. passenger Brit (idler):

passenger pej

parasite m , tire-au-flanc inf

passenger mile in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for passenger mile in the English»French Dictionary

passenger mile N

passenger mile

kilomètre-passager m

Translations for passenger mile in the English»French Dictionary

mile [maɪl] N

mile

mile m

for miles and miles

sur des kilomètres

Phrases:

to be better by miles

être mille fois mieux

to be miles away

être à des lieues

to be miles away (lost in thought)

j'étais dans la lune

to stick [or stand] out a mile

crever les yeux

passenger [ˈpæsəndʒəʳ, Am -əndʒɚ] N

passenger

passager(-ère) m (f)

passenger in public transport

voyageur(-euse) m (f)

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

The airline grew rapidly, going from 36 million revenue passenger miles in 1955, to 229 million revenue passenger miles in 1965.

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In aviation, fuel consumption per mile fell by more than 40 percent, but total fuel use grew by 150 percent because passenger miles rose.

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The return trip is another 400 passenger miles.

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The prior number is not passenger miles.

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If an airplane has 100 passengers, then the passenger miles are 100 times higher.

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If an airplane has 180 passengers, then the passenger miles are 180 times higher, which translates into a considerably lower fatality risk on a per passenger basis.

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For example, traffic fatalities as a measure of population is not as accurate as fatalities per 100 million passenger miles.

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Through the door-to-door demand response transportation program the agency served 259 new clients, had a total of 20,620 one-way trips, and accumulated 171,774 total passenger miles.

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Airlines have the lowest fatality rate, at 0.01 deaths per 100 million passenger miles.

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Minimum qualifications for vehicles must be greater than or equal to an average of 148 passenger miles per gallon.

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