Odometer vs Mileage - What's the difference?
odometer | mileage |
An instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed.
A wheel used by surveyors, which registers distance traversed.
the total distance, in miles, travelled
the number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel
mileage allowance, an allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile
(informal) the amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future
(informal) something worth taking into consideration
As nouns the difference between odometer and mileage
is that odometer is an instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed while mileage is the total distance, in miles, travelled.odometer
English
(wikipedia odometer)Alternative forms
* hodometer (dated) * odometre (nonstandard)Noun
(en noun)mileage
English
(wikipedia mileage)Alternative forms
* milageNoun
- This old PC has still got plenty of mileage in it.
- There's quite a lot of mileage in language, speech and computing, particularly in research.
- There's some mileage in your argument.
