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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



... Pimlico. He lives in Vauxhall Bridge Road, and his practice lies within a radius of half a mile ...
— The Doctor of Pimlico - Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime • William Le Queux
... out the ominous sounds, and judged that they came from a point not more than a mile distant. The commander and Scott appeared immediately; and with the increased daylight they discovered several men clinging to what appeared to be ...
— Across India - Or, Live Boys in the Far East • Oliver Optic
... a steel skirt, which extends around the car. The machine gun is aimed through a loop-hole in the steel turret. It can fire from 300 to 600 rifle bullets a minute, and has an effective range of a mile and a half. The bullets are held in a belt which runs through the gun automatically. The armor-plate on the rear of the car is loop-holed so that rifles can be used. Each of the machine guns has two extra barrels, ...
— A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study - of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict • Logan Marshall
... the horrid man might go in his unreasonable demands upon me. I groaned under the weight of his expectations; and, if I laid but the first round of such a staircase, why, then, I saw in vision a vast Jacob's ladder towering upwards to the clouds, mile after mile, league after league; and myself running up and down this ladder, like any fatigue party of Irish hodmen, to the top of any Babel which my wretched admirer might choose to build. But I nipped the abominable system of ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey
... from an eminent red predecessor of the pedestrian WESTON. This tremendous strider was called, in his melodious native tongue, "MILE-WALKEE"—because, to the infinite delight of his trainer, HOR. SCREELEY—he could make a mile ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 • Various


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