Etymology : Middle English, from Old English mIl, from Latin milia miles, from milia passuum, literally, thousands of paces, from milia, plural of mille thousand
Pronunciation : mI(&)l
Function : noun
Date : before 12th century
1. unit of distance equal to 5280 feet (approximately 1609 meters); relatively great distance. mile\mile\ , n. [as. mīl, 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.note: 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.
2. A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet. a footrace extending one mile; "he holds the record in the mile" a unit of length equal to 1760 yards a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards a large distance; "he missed by a mile".
3. 1. A mile is a unit of distance equal to 1760 yards or approximately 1.6 kilometres. They drove 600 miles across the desert The hurricane is moving to the west at about 18 miles per hour She lives just half a mile away a 50-mile bike ride.
4. Miles is used, especially in the expression miles away, to refer to a long distance. If you enrol at a gym that's miles away, you won't be visiting it as often as you should I was miles and miles from anywhere.
5. emphasis Miles or a mile is used with the meaning `very much' in order to emphasize the difference between two things or qualities, or the difference between what you aimed to do and what you actually achieved. You're miles better than most of the performers we see:
nowadays With a Labour candidate in place they won by a mile The rehearsals were miles too slow and no work was getting done.
6. If you say that someone is miles away, you mean that they are unaware of what is happening around them because they are thinking about something else. What were you thinking about? You were miles away.
7. If you say that someone is willing to go the extra mile, you mean that they are willing to make a special effort to do or achieve something. The President is determined `to go the extra mile for peace'.
8. emphasis If you say that you can see:
or recognize something a mile off, you are emphasizing that it is very obvious and easy to recognize. You can spot undercover cops a mile off.
9. If you say that someone would run a mile when faced with a particular situation, you mean that they would be very frightened or unwilling to deal with it. If anybody had told me when I first got married that I was going to have seven children, I would have run a mile.
10. emphasis If you say that something or someone sticks out a mile or stands out a mile, you are emphasizing that they are very obvious and easy to recognize. `How do you know he's Irish?' --- `Sticks out a mile.'. Any of various units of distance, including the statute mile of 5,280 ft (1.61 km). It originated from the Roman mille passus, or "thousand paces," which measured 5,000 Roman ft (4,840 English ft [1,475 km]). A nautical mile is the length on the Earth's surface of one minute of arc or, by international definition, 1,852 m (6,076.12 ft [1.1508 statute mi]); it remains in universal use in both marine and air transportation. A knot is one nautical mile per hour. See also International System of Units; metric system. Three Mile Island Coverdale Miles Davis Miles Dewey.
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