different between mile vs acre

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

English

Alternative forms

• aker (archaic)
• acer (-er form, chiefly UK)

Etymology

From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros (“field”).

Cognate with Scots acre, aker, acker (“acre, field, arable land”), North Frisian ecir (“field, a measure of land”), West Frisian eker (“field”), Dutch akker (“field”), German Acker (“field, acre”), Norwegian åker (“field”) and Swedish åker (“field”), Icelandic akur (“field”), Latin ager (“land, field, acre, countryside”), Ancient Greek ????? (agrós, “field”), Sanskrit ???? (ájra, “field, plain”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ??k?, IPA^(key): /?e?.k?/
• (General American) enPR: ??k?r, IPA^(key): /?e?.k?/
• Rhymes: -e?k?(?)

Noun

acre (plural acres)

1. An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters.
   1. (Chester, historical) An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
2. Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
3. (informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.

4. (informal, usually in the plural) A large quantity.
5. (obsolete) A field.
6. (obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (?20 m) by 220 yds (?200 m).
7. (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.

Synonyms

• (approximate): day's math, demath
• (Egyptian): feddan
• (Dutch): morgen
• (French): arpent, arpen, pose
• (India): cawney, cawny, bigha
• (Ireland): Irish acre, collop, plantation acre
• (Roman): juger, jugerum
• (Scottish): Scottish acre, Scots acre, Scotch acre, acair
• (Wales): Welsh acre, cover, cyfair, erw, stang

Hypernyms

• (100 carucates, notionally) See hundred
• (the area able to be plowed by 8 oxen in a year) See carucate
• (the area able to be plowed by two oxen in a year) See virgate
• (the area able to be plowed by an ox in a year) See oxgang
• (the area able to be plowed by an ox in half a season) See nook
• (the area able to be plowed by an ox in ¹?₄ a season) See fardel
• (10 acres, prob. spurious) acreme

Hyponyms

• (¹?₄ acre) See rood
• (¹?₁₆₀ acre) lug, perch, (now chiefly Scottish) fall

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: acra
• Norwegian Bokmål: acre

Translations

References

• Robert Holland, M.R.A.C., A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, Part I--A to F., English Dialect Society, London, 1884, 3

See also

• international acre
• north forty
• US survey acre
• Weights and measures
• Wikipedia article on the acre
• Hufe

References

Anagrams

• -care, CERA, Care, Cera, Crea, Race, acer, care, e-car, race, race-

French

Etymology

Probably from Old Norse akr reenforced by Old English æcer (“a field, land, that which is sown, sown land, cultivated land; a definite quantity of land, land which a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, an acre, a certain quantity of land, strip of plough-land; crop”) .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak?/

Noun

acre f (plural acres)

1. (historical) acre

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• âcre, care, créa, race

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ?cre, neuter nominative singular of ?cer (“sharp”). Doublet of agro.

Adjective

acre (plural acri)

1. sharp, sour
2. harsh

Related terms

Anagrams

• care, cera, c'era, crea, reca

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?.kre/, [?ä?k??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.kre/, [???k??]

Adjective

?cre

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of ?cer

References

• acre in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acre in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• acre in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

acre f (plural acres)

1. (Jersey) acre

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English acre, from Middle English acre, aker (“field, acre”), from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown, acre”), from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r (“field, open land”), from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field, open land”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros (“field, pasturage”), possibly from *h?e?- (“to drive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?k?r/
• Rhymes: -?r
• Hyphenation: a?cre
• Homophone: eiker

Noun

acre m (definite singular acren, indefinite plural acre or acres, definite plural acrene)

1. an acre (an English unit of land area (symbol: ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters)

References

• “acre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “acre” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “acre” in Store norske leksikon

Anagrams

• race

Old Irish

Noun

acre n

1. Alternative spelling of acrae

Mutation

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?a.k??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?a.k?i/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?a.k?e/
• Homophone: Acre
• Hyphenation: a?cre

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ?cre, neuter nominative singular of ?cer (“sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *h??rós (“sharp”). Doublet of agre, agro, ágrio.

Alternative forms

• agre

Adjective

acre m or f (plural acres, comparable)

1. sharp (unpleasantly acrid or tart in taste)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English acre, from Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer, from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros (“field”). Doublet of agro.

Noun

acre m (plural acres)

1. acre (unit of surface area)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.kre/

Adjective

acre

1. feminine/neuter plural nominative/accusative of acru

Scots

Alternative forms

• aker, acker

Etymology

From Middle English aker, from Old English æcer (“field; acre”). Cognate with English acre; see there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ek?r], [?j?k?r]
• (South Scots) IPA^(key): [?ak?r], [??k?r]

Noun

acre (plural acres)

1. An acre (unit of measurement)

Usage notes

The plural is acre when following a numeral.

Verb

acre (third-person singular present acres, present participle acrin, past acrit, past participle acrit)

1. To let grain crops be harvested at a stated sum per acre.
2. To be employed in harvesting grain crops at a stated sum per acre.

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ak?e/, [?a.k?e]

Etymology 1

From Latin ?cer (genitive singular ?cris). Cf. also agrio.

Adjective

acre (plural acres)

1. bitter; acrid; pungent
2. caustic

Derived terms

• acremente

Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English acre. Doublet of agro.

Noun

acre m (plural acres)

1. acre

Anagrams

• arce, caer, cera, crea

Further reading

• “acre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.