last mile | the last walk of a condemned person to the execution place |
great white shark white shark man-eater man-eating shark Carcharodon carcharias | large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas, known to attack humans |
honey eater honeysucker | Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar |
bee eater | colorful chiefly tropical Old World bird having a strong graceful flight, feeds on especially bees |
number cruncher | a computer capable of performing a large number of mathematical operations per second |
mile | a footrace extending one mile, he holds the record in the mile |
eater | any green goods that are good to eat, these apples are good eaters |
three-mile limit | the limit of a nation's territorial waters |
Denver Mile-High City capital of Colorado | the state capital and largest city of Colorado, located in central Colorado on the South Platte river |
number cruncher | someone able to perform complex and lengthy calculations |
cannibal man-eater anthropophagus anthropophagite | a person who eats human flesh |
lotus-eater stargazer | someone indifferent to the busy world, in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence |
eater feeder | someone who consumes food for nourishment |
fire-eater fire-swallower | a performer who pretends to swallow fire |
fire-eater hothead | a belligerent grouch |
fireman firefighter fire fighter fire-eater | a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires |
chinook chinook wind snow eater | a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies |
square mile | an area ofacres |
mile statute mile stat mi land mile international mile mi | a unit of length equal to , yards or , feet, exactly . meters |
half mile yards | a unit of length equal to half of mile |
quarter mile yards | a unit of length equal to a quarter of mile |
mile mil Swedish mile | a Swedish unit of length equivalent tokm |
mile Roman mile | an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent toyards |
survey mile | a U.S. unit of measure equal to . meters, derived from the use of . inches as the conversion for one meter |
nautical mile mile mi naut mi knot international nautical mile air mile | a unit of length used in navigation, exactly , meters, historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude |
nautical mile naut mi mile mi geographical mile Admiralty mile | a former British unit of length equivalent to , feet (,. meters), feet longer than a statute mile |
sea mile mile | a former British unit of length once used in navigation, equivalent to , feet (. meters) |
mile | a large distance, he missed by a mile |