Mile vs Wile - What's the difference?
mile | wile |
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.}}
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, 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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(usually, in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
* Milton
To entice or lure
, "to pass the time".
As a proper noun mile
is mili atoll.As a noun wile is
wila, black tree lichen (edible lichen).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.
Derived terms
* air mile * country mile * * metric mile * nautical mile * sea mile * ton mileSee also
* mileage * milepost * milestone * miles per gallon * mpgReferences
Anagrams
* * ----wile
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- He was seduced by her wiles .
- to frustrate all our plots and wiles
Synonyms
* beguilement * allurementVerb
(wil)- Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.
Usage notes
The phrase meaning to pass time idly is while away''. We can trace the meaning in an adjectival sense for while back to Old English, hw?len — ''passing, transitory''. We also see it in the whilend — ''temporary, transitory''. But since ''wile away occurs so often, it is now included in many dictionaries.References
* Grammarist.comWhile away or wile away?* Common Errors in the English Language
Wile Away, While Away----