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Meanings of mile in English
A unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude.
A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters.
Synonyms
Examples for "knot"
Examples for "knot"
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I think the problem is coming as the knot is going down.
2
Situated in the knot joining the ribbons that hold the Fishes together.
3
The reports said they would tie the knot during a private ceremony.
4
This will prevent the knot from flipping, thus creating an auto-blocking system.
5
Soon after, Doug and Lana tied the knot at the Great Northern.
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Tomorrow morning before mi go home, the elderly man said on Monday.
2
These studies point toward a potential role of miRNA in wound angiogenesis.
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A prognostic 4-miRNA model has been established using a random forest classifier.
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So, Comrades, mi feel seh mi can help pull the party together.
5
La, la, la, la; mi, in E major, key of four sharps.
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He missed these targets by a nautical mile in the last quarter.
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There wasn't even yet an agreed length for a nautical mile.
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At that stage, it was only half a nautical mile away from the Hook.
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The MV Greenpeace left China's 12 nautical mile sea limit after a four hour stay.
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Well, a knot means, I believe, a nautical mile.
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Why can't we train ourselves not to fight for every inch, minute and air mile?
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It is also accepting air mile donations.
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Barry Kelly is racking up air miles as the Irish economy booms.
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How many air miles were flown by the aubergines in your moussaka?
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The airline will pay air miles to friendly hackers who discover security problems.
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Assuming every thousand fathoms roughly to represent a geographical mile, the area would be of nine square miles.
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Kladen informs us that the sedimentary matter transported to the sea by the Rhine would amount to a cubic geographical mile in five thousand years.
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The Mississippi-a river "undercharged with sediment"-witha mean discharge of about ten times that of the Rhine, deposits a cubic geographical mile in thirty-three years.]
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On the surface of the earth, at the equator, each side of this polygon would be one-sixtieth of a geographical mile, or 101.46 feet.
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This man returned on the seventh day, having travelled 240 geographical miles.
Usage of mile in English
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Within a mere ten-mile sea front four dioceses reach to the ocean.
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Two years ago there were no dairy farmers within a three-mile radius.
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Then, in 2013, the new two-mile approach was found from the north.
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Even within the five-mile circle the great majority of people were inert.
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An eighty-mile walk over the Sea of Rains was a sombre thought.
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Although it was almost a mile away, it didn't look far enough.
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Growth in RASM, or revenue per available seat mile, is clearly decelerating.
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It was maybe a mile from my house, right on Route 116.
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But it's been the best year of my career by a mile.
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On their present course they will pass a mile to the north.'
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He started his training, at age 28, with a simple two-mile run.
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Tolliver saw a vehicle about a mile away, in the Russian area.
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It's a two mile per hour tap at 150 miles an hour.
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The fjord was in this place about half a mile in width.
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A half-mile in front of the bridge was the town of Murfreesboro.
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Why do political parties run a mile from legislating with appropriate safeguards?
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