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The answer MILE has 353 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of mile in various dictionaries:
noun - a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet
noun - a unit of length used in navigation
noun - a large distance
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| In May 1954 it took Roger Bannister 3 minutes 59.4 seconds to cover this distance |
| In 1954 the U.S. accepted 1.852 kilometers as the length of a nautical one of these |
| The Roman one of these was equal to 5,000 Roman feet or about 4,800 of our feet |
| 1,609 meters(4) |
| At an Oxford, England track meet on May 6, this distance was covered in a record 3:59.4 seconds |
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| a unit of measurement of distance equal to 1760 yards or 1.6 kilometers |
| used for saying how much fuel a vehicle uses: |
| used for saying how fast a vehicle, plane, etc. is travelling or can travel: |
| to make more effort than is expected of you: |
| Miles can mean a very long distance: |
| a very long way: |
| a unit of length equal to 1760 yards |
| a unit of distance equal to 1,760 yards or 1.6 kilometres: |
| a British unit of length equivalent to 1,609.34 meters (5,280 feet) |
| a unit of length used in navigation equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude 1,852 meters |
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The mile is an English unit of length of linear measure equal to 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards, and standardised as exactly 1,609.344 metres by international agreement in 1959. * With qualifiers, "mile" is also used to describe or translate a wide range of units derived from or roughly equivalent to the Roman mile, such as the nautical mile (now 1.852 km exactly), the Italian mile (roughly 1.852 km), and the Chinese mile (now 500 m exactly). The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 feet but the greater importance of furlongs in pre-modern England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to 8 furlongs or 5,280 feet in 1593. This form of the mile then spread to the British-colonized nations who continue to employ the mile. The US Geological Survey now employs the metre for official purposes but legacy data from its 1927 geodetic datum has meant that a separate US survey mile (6336/3937 km) continues to see some use. While most countries replaced the mile with the kilometre when switchi |