different between mile vs parsec

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

Etymology

Contraction of parallax second.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??s?k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??s?k/

Noun

parsec (plural parsecs)

1. (astronomy, metrology) parallax second

Synonyms

• (symbol) pc, ?
• second of parallax
• parallax second

Derived terms

• kiloparsec
• megaparsec
• microparsec
• gigaparsec

Translations

See also

• light year

Anagrams

• CASREP, Casper, Pacers, Scaper, capers, crapes, e-scrap, escarp, pacers, recaps, scaper, scrape, secpar, spacer

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English parsec, contraction of parallax second.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?r.s?k/
• Hyphenation: par?sec

Noun

parsec m (plural parsecs)

1. parsec

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English parsec.

Noun

parsec m (invariable)

1. parsec

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English parsec.

Noun

parsec m (plural parsecs)

1. (astronomy) parsec (a unit of length, about 3.26 lightyears)

Romanian

Etymology

From French parsec.

Noun

parsec m (plural parseci)

1. parsec

Declension

Spanish

Alternative forms

• pársec

Etymology

Borrowed from English parsec.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?sek/, [?pa?.sek]

Noun

parsec m (plural parsecs)

1. parsec