What is the difference between milepost and mile?
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A post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places
(rail transport) A sign or post beside a railway marking the distance from the (actual or nominal) start of a line (usually the principal terminus or junction with a more major line)
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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Milepost is a see also of mile.
As nouns the difference between milepost and mile
is that milepost is a post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places while mile is a unit of measure (length or distance) equal to 5,280 feet (8 furlongs) in the uscustomary/imperial system of measurements one mile is equal to 1609344 km http://wwwonlineconversioncom/length_commonhtm.milepost
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