Mileage vs. Mile

Mileage vs. Mile — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Mileage and Mile

Mileagenoun

The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles.

Milenoun

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.

Mileagenoun

The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel.

Milenoun

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.

Mileagenoun

An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile.

Milenoun

Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.

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Mileagenoun

(informal) The amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future.

This old PC has still got plenty of mileage in it.There’s quite a lot of mileage in language, speech and computing, particularly in research.

Milenoun

Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).

Mileagenoun

(informal) Something worth taking into consideration.

There’s some mileage in your argument.

Milenoun

(travel) An airline mile in a frequent flier program.

Mileagenoun

distance measured in miles

Milenoun

(informal) Any similarly large distance.

The shot missed by a mile.
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Mileagenoun

the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned

Milenoun

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

The runners competed in the mile.

Mileagenoun

a travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled

Milenoun

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

five miles over the speed limit

Milenoun

a unit of length equal to 1760 yards

Milenoun

a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters

Milenoun

a large distance;

he missed by a mile

Milenoun

a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 1828.8 meters (6000 feet)

Milenoun

a British unit of length equivalent to 1,853.18 meters (6,082 feet)

Milenoun

an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards

Milenoun

a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km

Milenoun

a footrace extending one mile;

he holds the record in the mile