different between distance vs mile

English

Alternative forms

• distaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English distance, distaunce, destaunce, from Old French destance, from Latin distantia (“distance, remoteness, difference”), from dist?ns, present participle of dist? (“I stand apart, I am separate, distant, or different”), from di-, dis- (“apart”) + st? (“I stand”). Compare Dutch afstand (“distance”, literally “off-stand, off-stance”), German Abstand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s.t?ns/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?d?s.t?ns/

Noun

distance (countable and uncountable, plural distances)

1. (countable) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.

   The distance to Petersborough is thirty miles.

   From Moscow, the distance is relatively short to Saint Petersburg, relatively long to Novosibirsk, but even greater to Vladivostok.
2. Length or interval of time.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Preface to a Collection of Poems

     ten years' distance between my writing the one and the other

   • 1795, John Playfair, Elements of Geometry

     the writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years

3. (countable, informal) The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.

4. Remoteness of place; a remote place.
   • 1799, Thomas Campbell, The Pleasure of Hope

     'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.

   • [He] waits at distance till he hears from Cato.

5. Remoteness in succession or relation.

6. A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
7. (uncountable, figuratively) The entire amount of progress to an objective.

8. (uncountable, figuratively) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

     Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves.
9. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
   • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour

     I hope your modesty / Will know what distance to the crown is due.

   • 1706, Francis Atterbury, A Sermon Preached in the Guild-Hall Chapel, September 28 1706

     'Tis by respect and distance that authority is upheld.

10. The space measured back from the winning-post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in the final heat.

Synonyms

• (remoteness): farness

Derived terms

Related terms

• distant

Translations

Verb

distance (third-person singular simple present distances, present participle distancing, simple past and past participle distanced)

1. (transitive) To move away (from) someone or something.

   He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.

2. (transitive) To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 71:

     Then the horse, with muscles strong as steel, distanced the sound.

Derived terms

• outdistance

Translations

Further reading

• distance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• distance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• distance at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• danciest

Danish

Etymology

From French distance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /distan?s?/, [d?i?sd???s?]

Noun

distance c (singular definite distancen, plural indefinite distancer)

1. distance
2. detachment

Declension

Further reading

• “distance” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Etymology

From distanco +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis?tant?se/
• Hyphenation: dis?tan?ce
• Rhymes: -ant?se

Adverb

distance

1. To or at a great distance.

   rigardi pentra?on distance.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.t??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Etymology 1

From Latin distantia.

Noun

distance f (plural distances)

1. distance

Derived terms

Related terms

• distant

Etymology 2

Verb

distance

1. inflection of distancer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “distance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latvian

Noun

distance f (5 declension)

1. distance
2. interval
3. railway division

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English myle, mile, from Old English m?l, from Proto-West Germanic *m?liju, a borrowing of Latin m?lia, m?llia, plural of m?le, m?lle (“mile”) (literally ‘thousand’ but used as a short form of m?lle pass?s (“a thousand paces”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ma??l/, [ma???]
• Rhymes: -a?l

Noun

mile (plural miles)

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.

   • Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
3. Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
4. The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
5. Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (?) or Arabic mile (al-m?l).
6. (travel) An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
7. (informal) Any similarly large distance.

8. (slang) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)

9. (slang) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• Elmi, Emil, Imel, Lemi, Liem, Meli, lime

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?l?/, [?mi?l?]
• Rhymes: -ajl

Noun

mile c (singular definite milen, plural indefinite miler)

1. dune
2. charcoal stack
3. atomic pile

Inflection

French

Etymology

From English mile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/, /majl/

Noun

mile m (plural miles)

1. mile

Related terms

• mille

Further reading

• “mile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• lime, limé
• miel

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English m?l (“millet”) and Latin milium (“millet”).

Alternative forms

• myle, milde, mylde, mylie, mylle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?l/, /mil/

Noun

mile

2. millet (grass used as grain)
3. The seed of millet.

Descendants

• English: mile (obsolete)

References

• “m??le, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-08.

Etymology 2

Noun

mile

2. Alternative form of myle (“mile”)

Old French

Alternative forms

• mil

Etymology

From Latin m?lle (plural m?lia).

Numeral

mile

1. one thousand

Descendants

• Middle French: mille, mil, mile
  • French: mille
    • ? Garifuna: milu (possibly)
• Norman: mille (Jersey)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?i.l?/

Etymology 1

From mi?y +? -e.

Adverb

mile (comparative milej, superlative najmilej)

1. kindly, warmly

Related terms

• mi?y
• mi?o

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

mile f

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mila

Further reading

• mile in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• mile in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mile]

Noun

mile f pl

1. plural of mil?

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

mile

1. inflection of mio:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English mylne, from Old English mylen.

Noun

mile

1. mill

Derived terms

• mileare

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN