Mile vs. Meter

Milenoun

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.

Milenoun

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.

Milenoun

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

Milenoun

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

Milenoun

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

Milenoun

(informal) Any similarly large distance.

Milenoun

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

Milenoun

(slang) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

Milenoun

A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.

Milenoun

a unit of length equal to 1760 yards

Milenoun

a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters

Milenoun

a large distance;

Milenoun

a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 1828.8 meters (6000 feet)

Milenoun

a British unit of length equivalent to 1,853.18 meters (6,082 feet)

Milenoun

an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards

Milenoun

a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km

Milenoun

a footrace extending one mile;

Milenoun

a unit of linear measure equal to 1,760 yards (approximately 1.609 kilometres).

Milenoun

a race extending over a mile

Milenoun

a Roman measure of 1,000 paces (approximately 1,620 yards).

Milenoun

a very long way or a very great amount

Mileadverb

by a great amount or a long way

Mile

The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and US customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards. The statute mile was standardised between the British Commonwealth and the United States by the international agreement in 1959, when it was formally redefined with respect to SI units as exactly 1,609.344 metres.

Meternoun

(always meter) A device that measures things.

Meternoun

(always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.

Meternoun

(always meter) (dated) One who metes or measures.

Meternoun

The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.

Meternoun

(music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.

Meternoun

The rhythm pattern in a poem.

Meternoun

A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

Meternoun

(obsolete) A poem.

Meterverb

to measure with a metering device.

Meterverb

to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter

Meterverb

to regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath)

Meternoun

One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.

Meternoun

An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured.

Meternoun

A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

Meternoun

Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.

Meternoun

A poem.

Meternoun

A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric.

Meternoun

the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

Meternoun

any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity

Meternoun

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

Meternoun

rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time

Meterverb

measure with a meter;

Meterverb

stamp with a meter indicating the postage;