different between metre vs mile

English

Alternative forms

• meter

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mi?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mi?t??/, [?mi???]
• Hyphenation: me?tre
• Rhymes: -i?t?(r)

Etymology 1

From French mètre, from Ancient Greek ?????? (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”). Doublet of metron.

Noun

metre (plural metres)

1. The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39+⁴⁷?₁₂₇ (approximately 39.37) imperial inches.
   • 1797, The Monthly magazine and British register, No. 3

     The measures of length above the metre are ten times ... greater than the metre.

   • 1873, The Young Englishwoman, April

     A dress length of 8 metres of the best quality costs 58 francs.

   • 1928, The Observer, April 15

     The 12-metre yachts ... can be sailed efficiently with four paid hands.

Usage notes

• This, rather than meter, is the spelling adopted by both the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and the International Organization for Standardization in their English language texts. However the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, in accordance with the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual, has chosen to use meter.

Synonyms

• m

Derived terms

(Metric scale)

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: mita
• ? Burmese: ???? (mita)
• ? Chinese: ?? (m?t?, m?tú)
• ? Japanese: ???? (m?t?)
• ? Korean: ?? (miteo) (South Korea), ?? (meteo) (North Korea, China)
• ? Maori: mita
• ? Swahili: mita

Translations

See also

• Appendix on SI Units

References

“metre” in the Collins English Dictionary

Further reading

• SI prefixes
• International Bureau of Weights and Measures

Verb

metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)

1. (Britain, rare) Alternative spelling of meter

Usage notes

The standard spelling of the verb meaning to measure is meter throughout the English-speaking world. The use of the spelling metre for this sense (outside music and poetry) is possibly a misspelling.

Etymology 2

From Old English, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek See #Etymology 1

Noun

metre (plural metres) (Britain, Canada)

1. The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition.

Translations

Verb

metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)

1. (poetry, music) To put into metrical form.

See also

• metronome
• metric
• Wikipedia article: metre (poetry)

Anagrams

• -meter, -treme, Emert, meter, remet, retem

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?m?.t??/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?m?.t??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?me.t?e/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French mètre.

Noun

metre m (plural metres)

1. metre, meter (unit of measure, 100 cm)

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan metre, from Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mitt?. Compare Occitan metre, French mettre, Spanish meter.

Verb

metre (first-person singular present meto, past participle mes)

1. to put, to place

   Synonym: posar

2. to set

Conjugation

Related terms

Further reading

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

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan metre, from Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mitt?. Attested from the 12th century.

Pronunciation

Verb

metre

1. (transitive) to put, to place

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• mesa

References

Old French

Etymology

From Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mitt?.

Verb

metre

1. to put, to place

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• Middle French: mettre, mectre, metre
  • French: mettre
• Norman: maette (Guernsey), mettre (Jersey)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French mètre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?t??/

Noun

metre (definite accusative metreyi, plural metreler)

1. metre, meter (unit of measure, 100 cm)
2. rule, folding rule

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