Miles

Word MILES
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /maɪlz/

Definitions and meanings of "Miles"

What do we mean by miles?

The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.

Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.

Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.

The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.

Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).

(travel) An airline mile in a frequent flier program.

Any similarly large distance.

A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)

One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

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The word "miles" in example sentences

He ran him for seven miles -- _seven miles_, mind you! ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

Nannie is miles and _miles_ away from here by the cars, and how're children like you ever going to get to her without money or anything? ❋ Barbara Yechton (1901)

On this level part a horse travels with four waggons in his train, these together with their loads weighing sixteen tons, at the rate of three miles an hour, and continuing to do this eight hours, or through the distance of twenty-four miles*. ❋ Unknown (1828)

[Parameter (Mandatory = $true, Position = 0, valueFromPipeline = $true)] "$miles miles equals $ (($miles * 1.61)) kilometers" ❋ ScriptingGuy (2010)

Function Script: ConvertToKilometers ($miles) "$miles miles equals $ (($miles * 1.61)) kilometers" ❋ Unknown (2010)

We recommend doing the full loop (1.72 miles*) plus the there-and-back extension from the apex of the hill, which will add nearly a mile more of hiking for a total of 2.7 miles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The current of the Ohio defcends about two miles an hour in autumn, and when the waters are high about four miles_ ❋ Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. Cn (1796)

On the march it is calculated that each wagon will occupy about eighty feet -- in bad roads much more; consequently a train of seven hundred wagons will cover fifty-six thousand feet of road -- or over ten miles; the ambulances of a corps will occupy about a mile, and the batteries about three miles; thirty thousand troops need six miles to march in, if they form but one column; the total length of the marching column of a corps is therefore _twenty miles_, even without including the cattle herds and trains of bridge material. ❋ Various (N/A)

The time taken has no bearing, hence the term "miles per gallon", not "minutes per gallon". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Likewise with rebates, though I do tend to use those more, probably because the threshold for cashing-in miles is so high, and being a computer programmer I end up buying a lot of equipment which offer rebates of $50 and greater. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Single crewed – backup was either 18 miles away in one direction or 25 miles from the other direction. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Most U.S. organic producers sold their products locally, with 44 percent of sales taking place less than 100 miles from the farm. ❋ Olga Bonfiglio (2010)

They are seen first at Al Arish, nearly 40 miles from the border. ❋ Unknown (2009)

No — it just has several major Russian military bases being constructed within miles of it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And if you live in a small town, fifty miles from the nearest scheduled bus service and a hundred miles from the nearest air service, you might bless your Congressman for keeping an Amtrak train rolling through. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A few days after moving from our apartment in Beijing, I awoke to find a mother deer and two fawns in the front yard of our house in Washington, barely three miles from the White House. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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