mile
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- noun
- /maɪl/
:
milla
- So my commute was literally half a mile down Fountain Ave.
- a mile away
- miles per hour
- half a mile
Yeah, listen, I would do eight mile run no problem.
- Yeah, listen, I would do eight mile run no problem.
- Carry this a whole mile just for this.
- But we're on the final mile and there it is.
- So my commute was literally half a mile down Fountain Ave.
- Think about that one to two miles across.
- It's a very, it's like a, a mile wide and an inch deep.
- The hardest thing for me was the two mile ocean swims.
- You're, you're running miles, miles of soft sand with boots.
- They're on a a mile drag strip, like a long drag strip.
- We live just east of that, about two miles as the crow flies.
Examples
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We think it's probably about two miles up that way.
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It's about 10 miles south on Highway 6.
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I live about a mile down S State St.
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We're miles away from the village.
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It's a good 500 miles to the first border.
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The truck was parked less than half a mile from Crowfoot's home.
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I just emailed him back that "I live a mile west of Mission, South Dakota."
Academic text (2017) -
Even Microsoft professionals, working twenty miles northeast on its suburban campus, often prefer urban living.
Academic text (2013) -
Dn Ailinne, last of the royal sites, is some 40 miles due south of Tara.
Academic text (2011) -
The marathon route is 26.2 miles long, which is over 42 kilometers.
Synonyms
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A unit of distance equal to 1,609 meters
A unit of length equal to 1,609.344 meters used in the United States and the United Kingdom
A unit of distance equal to 5,280 feet or 1,609 meters
A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet used on land
A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards, about 1,609 meters
Idioms
- Informal
Allowing a small favor makes someone try to take much more than you wanted
- Informal
When you are already helping a little, keep going and do it completely even if it gets much bigger
- Informal
Imagine being the other person to understand their feelings and situation
Compounds
- Specialized
11
4.4
A distance of exactly 1,852 meters used for measuring sea and air travel
- Archaic
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7.5
A line three miles from a country's coast that marks the sea it controls
- Archaic
An old measure of distance used at sea that equals 6,080 feet, about 1,853 metres
A common name for Denver, the capital of Colorado, because it is about one mile above sea level
- Specialized
A unit of length equal to 1,609.344 meters used in the United States and the United Kingdom
- Specialized
A unit of distance for ships and planes that equals 1,852 meters
- Specialized
A U.S. measure of distance equal to 1,609.347 meters used in land surveys
How Long
- Specialized
109
4.9
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- US
572
1.8
- Specialized
621
1.0
- US
92
1.0
- Specialized
140
2.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mile comes from the old Latin mille, meaning 'thousand', because the Roman measure was one thousand paces; you can see the same root in the word million. So the modern mile grew from that idea of 'a thousand paces' and became our unit of distance.