Mile : (noun)
1: a unit of length equal to 1760 yards [syn: statute mile, stat
mi, land mile, mi]
2: a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the
distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852
meters [syn: nautical mile, mi, naut mi, knot, international
nautical mile, air mile]
3: a large distance; "he missed by a mile"
4: a former British unit of length once used in navigation;
equivalent to 1828.8 meters (6000 feet) [syn: sea mile]
5: a British unit of length equivalent to 1,853.18 meters
(6,082 feet) [syn: nautical mile, naut mi, mi, geographical
mile, Admiralty mile]
6: an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
[syn: Roman mile]
7: a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km [syn: Swedish
mile]
8: a footrace extending one mile; "he holds the record in the
mile"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Mile : \Mile\, n. [AS. m[=i]l, 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.
Geographical, or Nautical mile, one sixtieth of a degree
of a great circle of the earth, or 6080.27 feet.
Mile run. Same as Train mile. See under Train.
Roman mile, a thousand paces, equal to 1,614 yards English
measure.
Statute mile, a mile conforming to statute, that is, in
England and the United States, a mile of 5,280 feet, as
distinguished from any other mile.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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MILE, measure. A length of a thousand paces, or seventeen hundred and sixty
yards, or five thousand two hundred and eighty feet. It contains eight
furlongs, every furlong being forty poles, and each pole sixteen feet six
inches. 2 Stark. R. 89.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Mile : (from Lat. mille, "a thousand;" Matt. 5:41), a Roman measure of
1,000 paces of 5 feet each. Thus the Roman mile has 1618 yards,
being 142 yards shorter than the English mile.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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