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mile | wile |

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)
  • 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. ref
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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.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
  • , 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= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • 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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  • Derived terms

    * air mile * country mile * * metric mile * nautical mile * sea mile * ton mile

    See also

    * mileage * milepost * milestone * miles per gallon * mpg

    References

    Anagrams

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    wile

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
  • He was seduced by her wiles .
  • * Milton
  • to frustrate all our plots and wiles

    Synonyms

    * beguilement * allurement

    Verb

    (wil)
  • To entice or lure
  • , "to pass the time".
  • 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.com While away or wile away? * Common Errors in the English Language Wile Away, While Away ----