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MILE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A footrace extending one mile
Example:
he holds the record in the mile
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mile" is a kind of...):
track event (a footrace performed on a track (indoor or outdoor))
Derivation:
miler (a runner in a one-mile race)
miler ((used only in combinations) the length of something in miles)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
Synonyms:
international mile; land mile; mi; mile; stat mi; statute mile
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("mile" is a kind of...):
linear measure; linear unit (a unit of measurement of length)
Meronyms (parts of "mile"):
furlong (a unit of length equal to 220 yards)
880 yards; half mile (a unit of length equal to half of 1 mile)
440 yards; quarter mile (a unit of length equal to a quarter of 1 mile)
Holonyms ("mile" is a part of...):
league (an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles))
Derivation:
miler (a runner in a one-mile race)
miler ((used only in combinations) the length of something in miles)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
Synonyms:
mil; mile; Swedish mile
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("mile" is a kind of...):
linear measure; linear unit (a unit of measurement of length)
Derivation:
miler (a runner in a one-mile race)
miler ((used only in combinations) the length of something in miles)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
Synonyms:
mile; Roman mile
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("mile" is a kind of...):
linear measure; linear unit (a unit of measurement of length)
Derivation:
miler (a runner in a one-mile race)
miler ((used only in combinations) the length of something in miles)
Sense 5
Meaning:
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; mi; mile; naut mi; nautical mile
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("mile" is a kind of...):
nautical linear unit (a linear unit of distance used in navigation)
Derivation:
miler ((used only in combinations) the length of something in miles)
Sense 6
Meaning:
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; mile; naut mi; nautical mile
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("mile" is a kind of...):
nautical linear unit (a linear unit of distance used in navigation)
Derivation:
miler ((used only in combinations) the length of something in miles)
Sense 7
Meaning:
A former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)
Synonyms:
mile; sea mile
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("mile" is a kind of...):
nautical linear unit (a linear unit of distance used in navigation)
Derivation:
miler ((used only in combinations) the length of something in miles)
Sense 8
Meaning:
A large distance
Example:
he missed by a mile
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("mile" is a kind of...):
large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)
Context examples:
He was found dead this morning upon Oxshott Common, nearly a mile from his home.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Three miles farther, just inside the mouth of North Inlet, what should we meet but the HISPANIOLA, cruising by herself?
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Between two and three in the morning the moon rose; and I then, putting my basket aboard a little skiff, sailed out about four miles from the shore.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A header concept for the various measurement units based on the mile.
(Mile Unit of Distance, NCI Thesaurus)
He had little time to dwell upon it however, for there were still six good miles between him and the nearest inn.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You wouldn’t think the mares had come fifty miles, would you?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector), defined as the distance of one mile traveled per unit time equal to one hour.
(Mile Per Hour, NCI Thesaurus)
Winds can exceed 155 miles per hour.
(Hurricanes, Federal Emergency Management Agency)
We had run two miles, I suppose, before Holmes at last halted and listened intently.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then we lost them for half a mile, but only to pick them up once more quite close to Mapleton.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
