Mile vs. Mole

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.

Molenoun

A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy.

Molenoun

Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae.

Molenoun

Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats.

Molenoun

(espionage) An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.

Molenoun

A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines

Molenoun

A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.

Molenoun

A moll, a bitch, a slut.

Molenoun

(nautical) A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.

Molenoun

(rare) A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.

Molenoun

(historical) An Ancient Roman mausoleum.

Molenoun

In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.) as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. from 1897

Molenoun

A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.

Molenoun

One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially the sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.

Molenoun

A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.

Molenoun

A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.

Molenoun

A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.

Molenoun

A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself.

Molenoun

Any insectivore of the family Talpidæ. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.

Molenoun

A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.

Molenoun

A spy who lives for years an apparently normal life (to establish a cover) before beginning his spying activities.

Molenoun

A quantity of a substance equal to the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; a gram molecule; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the System International d'Unites; as, he added two moles of sodium chloride to the medium.

Moleverb

To form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth.

Moleverb

To clear of molehills.

Molenoun

the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

Molenoun

a spy who works against enemy espionage

Molenoun

spicy sauce often containing chocolate

Molenoun

a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin

Molenoun

a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away

Molenoun

small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet

Molenoun

a small burrowing mammal with dark velvety fur, a long muzzle, and very small eyes, feeding mainly on worms, grubs, and other invertebrates.

Molenoun

a spy who gradually achieves an important position within the security defences of a country

Molenoun

someone within an organization who anonymously betrays confidential information

Molenoun

a small, often slightly raised blemish on the skin made dark by a high concentration of melanin

Molenoun

a large solid structure on a shore serving as a pier, breakwater, or causeway.

Molenoun

a harbour formed or protected by a mole.

Molenoun

the SI unit of amount of substance, equal to the quantity containing as many elementary units as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12.

Molenoun

an abnormal mass of tissue in the uterus.

Molenoun

a highly spiced Mexican sauce made chiefly from chilli peppers and chocolate, served with meat.