mile

[Mile]

A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters

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A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.

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a footrace extending one mile; "he holds the record in the mile"

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a unit of length equal to 1760 yards

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a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km

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an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards

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a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters

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a British unit of length equivalent to 1,853.18 meters (6,082 feet)

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a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 1828.8 meters (6000 feet)

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a large distance; "he missed by a mile"


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A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.


Mile

Mile , n. [AS. m'c6l, fr. L. millia, milia; pl. of mille a thousand, i. e., milia passuum a thousand paces. Cf. Mill the tenth of a cent, Million.] A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet. &hand; The distance called a mile varies greatly in different countries. Its length in yards is, in Norway, 12,182; in Brunswick, 11,816; in Sweden, 11,660; in Hungary, 9,139; in Switzerland, 8,548; in Austria, 8,297; in Prussia, 8,238; in Poland, 8,100; in Italy, 2,025; in England and the United States, 1,760; in Spain, 1,552; in the Netherlands, 1,094. Geographical, ∨ Nautical mile, one sixtieth of a degree of a great circle of the earth, or 6080.27 feet. -- Mile run. Same as Train mile. See under Train. -- Roman mile, a thousand paces, equal to 1,614 yards English measure. -- Statute mile, a mile conforming to statute, that is, in England and the United States, a mile of 5,280 feet, as distinguished from any other mile.

A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.

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Usage Examples

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

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Other Usage Examples

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

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