Ile vs Mile - What's the difference?
ile | mile |
(obsolete) Ear of corn.
(obsolete) An aisle.
(obsolete) An isle.
(archaic) I’ll; contraction for I will or I shall
* "Why then Ile fit you." — T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
A unit of measure (length or distance) equal to 5,280 feet (8 furlongs) in the U.S.Customary/Imperial system of measurements. One mile is equal to 1.609344 km.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
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, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A Roman unit of measure equal to 1000 (double) steps (mille passus or mille passuum) or 5000 Roman feet (approx. 1480m).
A track race of one mile in length; sometimes used to refer to the 1500 m race.
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(lb) A great distance.
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(lb) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
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As nouns the difference between ile and mile
is that ile is ear of corn while mile is a unit of measure (length or distance) equal to 5,280 feet (8 furlongs) in the U.S.Customary/Imperial system of measurements. One mile is equal to 1.609344 km.As a contraction ile
is i’ll; contraction for I will or I shall.ile
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m).Noun
(head)- (Ainsworth)
Etymology 2
See aisle.Noun
(head)Etymology 3
See isleNoun
(head)- (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Etymology 4
See I'llContraction
(head)Anagrams
* * * English terms with multiple etymologies ----mile
English
(wikipedia mile)Noun
(en noun)ref
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.