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Mile   /maɪl/   Listen
Mile

noun
1.
A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters.  Synonyms: international mile, land mile, mi, stat mi, statute mile.
2.
A unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude.  Synonyms: air mile, international nautical mile, knot, mi, naut mi, nautical mile.
3.
A large distance.
4.
A former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters).  Synonym: sea mile.
5.
A former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile.  Synonyms: Admiralty mile, geographical mile, mi, naut mi, nautical mile.
6.
An ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards.  Synonym: Roman mile.
7.
A Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km.  Synonyms: mil, Swedish mile.
8.
A footrace extending one mile.



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"Mile" Quotes from Famous Books



... covers with Irving's Conquest of Granada and a tattered line of paper-covered novels. Over the sideboard was a framed photograph of the Edinburgh University Football Fifteen, and opposite it a smaller one of Dimsdale himself, clad in the scantiest of garb, as he appeared after winning the half-mile at the Inter-University Handicap. A large silver goblet, the trophy of that occasion, stood underneath upon a bracket. Such was the student's chamber upon the morning in question, save that in a roomy arm-chair in the corner the young gentleman himself was languidly reclining, with ...
— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle
... male goat is well known, and that of certain male deer is wonderfully strong and persistent. On the banks of the Plata I perceived the air tainted with the odour of the male Cervus campestris, at half a mile to leeward of a herd; and a silk handkerchief, in which I carried home a skin, though often used and washed, retained, when first unfolded, traces of the odour for one year and seven months. This animal does not emit its strong odour until more than a year old, and if castrated ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
... The room is fifteen foot square; I measured it with a two-feet rule. 3. The farmer exchanged five barrel of potatoes for fifty pound of sugar. 4. These sort of expressions should be avoided. 5. We were traveling at the rate of forty mile an hour. 6. Remove this ashes ...
— Higher Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg
... an eight-mile sound penetrating the coast of South Georgia in an easterly direction. We had noticed that the northern and southern sides of the sound were formed by steep mountain-ranges, their flanks furrowed by mighty glaciers, ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton
... mile and a half from a low point of GROOTE EYLANDT, where the shore trends southward and seemed to form a bay. In the deep sides of the chasms were deep holes or caverns, undermining the cliffs; upon the walls of which I found rude drawings made with charcoal ...
— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc


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