Word Finder - mile

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The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.

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Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.

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Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.

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The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.

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Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).

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(travel) An airline mile in a frequent flier program.

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Any similarly large distance.

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The shot missed by a mile.

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A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)

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The runners competed in the mile.

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One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

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five miles over the speed limit

They found the problem about a mile down the creek.

The house sits more than a mile off the snow plow route, so sometimes I'm snowed in for a week or so.

Maybe that was because Josh was only a mile down the road.

At the fourth mile marker, she paused.

He promised to return in an hour and ferry the group back to Bird Song, which was less than a mile away.

They drove south from town and in less than a quarter mile, turned right onto what was locally known as the Camp Bird Mine Road.

He had a sentimental streak in him a mile wide, but he'd never admit it.

The school was more than a mile from their home, and the children trotted along as fast as their short legs could carry them.

They had walked a mile or two towards home, when they came to the edge of a narrow and deep ravine.

About a mile distant there was a trestle spanning a deep gorge.

Since I wrote you, Helen and I have gone to live all by ourselves in a little garden-house about a quarter of a mile from her home, only a short distance from Ivy Green, the Keller homestead.

After all, the man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages; he is not an evangelist, nor does he come round eating locusts and wild honey.

My nearest neighbor is a mile distant, and no house is visible from any place but the hill-tops within half a mile of my own.

They lived about a mile off through the woods, and were quite used to the route.

The colonel said that the commander of the division was a mile and a quarter away and would receive Balashev and conduct him to his destination.

He said that Murat was spending the night less than a mile from where they were, and that if they would let him have a convoy of a hundred men he would capture him alive.

It was necessary to let the French reach Shamshevo quietly without alarming them and then, after joining Dolokhov who was to come that evening to a consultation at a watchman's hut in the forest less than a mile from Shamshevo, to surprise the French at dawn, falling like an avalanche on their heads from two sides, and rout and capture them all at one blow.

She scowled down at him, her heart beating a mile a minute.

Barely visible a half mile or more across the water were a few other camps.

The magnificent bridge here spanning the Elbe, one mile in length, was built in 1851 at a cost of £237,500.

He was present in person at an extraordinary affray in Sidney St., Mile End Road, on Jan.

A jetty exceeding a quarter of a mile in length permits the approach of vessels at all tides.

In its long course it varies greatly both in depth and width, in some parts being only a few feet deep and spreading out to a width of more than a mile, while in other and mountainous portions of its course its channel is narrowed to 300 or 400 ft., and its depth is increased in inverse ratio.

They need not be horizontal, and sometimes have a dip of a few feet per mile, as in the case of the Ohio and Indiana oil fields, where the amount varies from one to ten feet.

It lies on the Uska-Nepal road at mile 19.75; and about half a mile south of the boundary pillar numbered 44 on the frontier line between British and Nepalese 1 A surname given to Pippin III.

The famous seat of the Platonic philosophy was a gymnasium enlarged as a public park by Cimon; it lay about a mile to the north-west of the Dipylon Gate, with which it was connected by a street bordered with tombs.

The main part of the town extends for a mile along the broad straight Roman road, Watling Street; the high road from Luton to Tring, which crosses it in the centre of the town, representing the ancient Icknield Way.

None of the rivers is navigable for more than a mile or two from the coast.

Porthilechog, or Bull Bay (so called from the Bull Rock), at a mile's distance, is a small but favourite watering-place.

A breakwater three-quarters of a mile long protects the entrance to the harbour.

In the course of centuries this mole has been silted up and is now an isthmus half a mile wide.

Another breakwater starts from the Gabbari side, the opening between the two works being about half a mile.

I could always tell if visitors had called in my absence, either by the bended twigs or grass, or the print of their shoes, and generally of what sex or age or quality they were by some slight trace left, as a flower dropped, or a bunch of grass plucked and thrown away, even as far off as the railroad, half a mile distant, or by the lingering odor of a cigar or pipe.

I might have got good limestone within a mile or two and burned it myself, if I had cared to do so.

They tried to make their way forward to the opposite bank and, though there was a ford one third of a mile away, were proud that they were swimming and drowning in this river under the eyes of the man who sat on the log and was not even looking at what they were doing.

What was going on behind those fantastic eyes, she couldn't say, but Pete's jaw must have dropped a mile.

He kept trying, and we learned later, he maintained contact for nearly a mile.

They proved unnecessary as a patrol car caught up with me and escorted me the last mile.

At this spot, a bridge spanning the Uncompahgre River bisected the two main climbing sections that extended almost a mile.

This is also the length of $th of the statute mile.

Kyaukse town is situated on the Zawgyi River and on the Rangoon-Mandalay railway line, and is well laid out in regular streets, covering an area of about a square mile.

When they were discovered, a mere raft of reeds in which they could scarcely venture a mile from shore was their only means of navigation.

The city stands at the foot of low bluffs, about a mile from the shore line.

Half a mile east of Kabul it is joined by the Logar, a much larger river, which rises beyond Ghazni among the slopes of the Gul Koh (14,200 ft.), and drains the rich and picturesque valleys of LGgar and Wardak.

It is celebrated for the ruins of early aboriginal buildings still extant, about half a mile from its present site.

The city was burnt, we are told, with the exception of the temples of Vulcan and Juno - the massive Etruscan terrace-walls, naturally, can hardly have suffered at all - and the town, with the territory for a mile round, was allowed to be occupied by whoever chose.

Copper wire weighing 600 and 800 lb per mile has also been used to some extent.

Gutta-percha-covered copper wires were formerly largely used for the purpose of underground lines, the copper conductor weighing 40 lb per statute mile, and the gutta-percha covering 50 lb (90 lb total).

Between London and Birmingham a paper cable 116 m long and consisting of 72 copper conductors, each weighing 150 lb per statute mile, was laid in 1900.

The central conductor is covered with several continuous coatings of guttapercha, the total weight of which varies between 70 and 650 lb to the mile.