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mile
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
  4. Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).
  5. (informal) Any similarly large distance.
  6. (slang) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
  7. (slang) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “Before you abuse, criticize and accuse, walk a mile in my shoes.”
      “Are you sure you want to go on foot? It's a mile from here!”
      “The project would require approximately 1 square mile of fill and tons of dredging.”
mileage
  1. The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles.
  2. The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel.
  3. Mileage allowance, an allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile.
  4. (informal) The amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future.
  5. (informal) Something worth taking into consideration.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The mileage of the project was carefully calculated before its implementation.”
      “He discovered that his fluency in multiple languages gave him a considerable mileage in securing international job opportunities.”
      “The new optimization algorithm has greatly increased the mileage of our software, making it much more efficient and useful for data analysis.”
miles
  1. plural of mile
  2. (slang) A great distance in space or time.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “We traveled miles to be part of this great event.”
miler
  1. (sports) An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile (often used in a compound with a number or fraction)
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It's been a bitty week running wise, one 14 miler and two 5 milers isn't ideal.”
      “Strategic Mission is an outstanding miler with excellent stallion potential.”
      “He is a lovely strong colt, a proper miler, and it has been a pleasure to ride him for Sir Alex.”
mileages
  1. plural of mileage
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The choice of hard-wearing, if dowdy, plastics and fabrics inside means that intergalactic mileages can be covered with little sign of wear.”
      “Both reached record mileages with their engines, and were able to concentrate on chassis and engine development for the coming races.”
      “But when they were sold in December and October 2002 respectively, the mileages of both cars showed around 65,000 miles.”
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