different between ailer vs miler

English

Adjective

ailer

1. comparative form of ail: more ail

Anagrams

• Alire, Ariel, Liera, ariel, lirae, raile

English

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?ma?l??/

Etymology

mile +? -er

Noun

miler (plural milers)

1. (sports, often in combination) An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles.
   • 1905, E.W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night

     But the master himself was an old Oxford miler, who could still bear it better than I; nay, as I flagged and stumbled, I heard him pounding steadily behind.
2. (in combination) A race whose length is the specified number of miles.

   I ran an eight-miler on Sunday and I'm still feeling sore.

Derived terms

• half-miler
• quarter-miler

Translations

Anagrams

• Ilmer, Imler, Rimel, limer

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /mi?le/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /mi?le?/

Noun

miler m (plural milers)

1. a set of one thousand

   Synonym: milenar

2. a quantity of roughly one thousand

   Synonym: milenar

Usage notes

Rather than using the feminine ordinal (milena or mil·lèsima) as the word for a set of one thousand as is usual, for one thousand miler and milenar are used.

Further reading

• “miler” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “miler” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “miler” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “miler” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Noun

miler c

1. indefinite plural of mile

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

miler f

1. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of mil

Etymology 2

Noun

miler f

1. indefinite plural of mile
2. indefinite plural of mila (non-standard since 2012)