mile

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Going the extra mile is my normal route, even with today's gas prices. see this is the problem with the written word, you must have missed understood what I am doing and your definition of application and what I am doing is not the same, so thank you Bob, but after Kent said the thing about a Lic.

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  1. noun A unit of length equal to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards (1,609 meters), used in the United States and other English-speaking countries. Also called land mile, statute mile. See Table at measurement.
  2. noun A nautical mile.
  3. noun An air mile.
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  • Most of the fields within a mile were his, but these acres, the stretch between the drive and the rushing stream, a tributary of the Frome, and the gardens around the house, played host to most of his childhood memories They crested a rise and the house came into view. —  Stephanie Laurens - A Fine Passion
  • For all you pedometer wearers out there, a mile is about 2,000 steps. —  CNN.com
  • Going the extra mile is my normal route, even with today's gas prices. —  Mortgage News Daily - Mortgage And Real Estate News
  • Going the extra mile is my normal route, even with today's gas prices. something is not right. —  Mortgage News Daily - Mortgage And Real Estate News
  • Going the extra mile is my normal route, even with today's gas prices. see this is the problem with the written word, you must have missed understood what I am doing and your definition of application and what I am doing is not the same, so thank you Bob, but after Kent said the thing about a Lic. —  Mortgage News Daily - Mortgage And Real Estate News
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  1. Middle English, from Old English mīl, from Latin mīlia (passuum), a thousand (double paces), a Roman mile, pl. of mīlle, thousand; see gheslo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English mile, myle, from Anglo-Saxon mīl = D, mijl = Middle Low German mīle, Low German mile = Old High German mīla, mīlla, Middle High German mīle, German meile = Icelandic mīla = Swedish Danish mil = Old French mille, mile, French mille = Provencal Spanish milla = Portuguese milha = Italian miglio, from Middle Latin milia, millia, fern, singular, a mile, from Latin mille, sc. passuum, a mile, literally a thousand steps: mille, plural milia, millia, a thousand; passuum, genitive plural of passus, a step: see pace.
 

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