Ailer vs Miler - What's the difference?
ailer | miler |
(ail)
(obsolete) Painful; troublesome.
To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
* Bible, Genesis xxi. 17
* 2011 , "Connubial bliss in America", The Economist :
To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
* Richardson
an athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile (often used in a compound with a number or fraction )
* 1905, E.W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night
* 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, Through the Magic Door
As an adjective ailer
is comparative of ail.As a noun miler is
an athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile (often used in a compound with a number or fraction.ailer
English
Adjective
(head)ail
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.
- What aileth thee, Hagar?
- Not content with having in 1996 put a Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) on the statue book, Congress has now begun to hold hearings on a Respect for Marriage Act. Defended, respected: what could possibly ail marriage in America?
- When he ails ever so little he is so peevish.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "ail")Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Anagrams
* * ----miler
English
Noun
(en noun)- But the master himself was an old Oxford miler , who could still bear it better than I; nay, as I flagged and stumbled, I heard him pounding steadily behind.
- The champion sprinter is seldom a five-miler as well.