mile

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• Mile

  ·noun A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Mile

  (from Lat. mille, "a thousand;" Matt. 5:41), a Roman measure of 1,000 paces of 5 feet each. Thus the...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• mile

  Often in the singular with a ntlnleral, instead of the plural miles. Mr. Hartshorne, in his Glossary...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• mile

  The statute mile is 5280 feet; but that used at sea, termed the mean nautic mile, consists of 6075·6...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Mile

  a Roman measure of length, equal to 1618 English yards-4854 feet, or about nine-tenths of an English...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Car mile

  ·add. ·- A mile traveled by a single car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the averag...

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• Passenger mile

  ·add. ·- A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a give...

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• Sea mile

  ·- A geographical mile. ·see <<Mile>>. ...

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• Three-mile

  ·add. ·adj Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine bel...

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• Ton mile

  ·add. ·- A unit of measurement of the freight transportation performed by a railroad during a given ...

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• Traffic mile

  ·add. ·- Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's ...

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• welch mile

  Like a Welch mile, long and narrow. His story is like a Welch mile, long and tedious. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• minute mile

  The sixtieth part of a degree of longitude or latitude; in the latter case it is the sixtieth part o...

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• nautical mile

  (MEAN) = 6075·6 feet. ...

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