Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Slang A million dollars.
- noun A unit of length equal to one thousandth (10−3) of an inch (0.0254 millimeter), used, for example, to specify the diameter of wire or the thickness of materials sold in sheets.
- noun A milliliter; one cubic centimeter.
- noun A unit of angular measurement used in artillery and equal to 1/6400 of a complete revolution.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A copper coin of Hongkong, the thousandth part of a dollar, corresponding to a Chinese ‘cash.’
- noun A unit of length used in measuring the diameter of wires, equal to 0.001 of an inch.
- noun An abbreviation of
military . - A simplified spelling of mill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun slang One million dollars.
- noun an obsolete monetary unit of Cyprus equal in value to 1/1000 of a pound.
- noun a unit of length equal to 1/1000 inch, used especially in measuring the thickness of sheets of materials.
- noun laboratory slang one milliliter; -- used mostly in informal speech.
- noun a unit of angular size equal to 1/6400 of 360 degrees; -- it is used especially in artillery ranging.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
angular mil , a unit ofangular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries. - noun A unit of measurement equal to 1⁄1000 of an
inch , usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic. - noun a former subdivision (1/1000) of the Maltese lira
- noun informal Abbreviation of
million .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an angular unit used in artillery; equal to 1/6400 of a complete revolution
- noun a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
- noun a Cypriot monetary unit equal to one thousandth of a pound
- noun a unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch; used to specify thickness (e.g., of sheets or wire)
- noun a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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While you wait the 13 mil becomes 18 mil+ the wasted 600K+.
Lowell Sun Forum 2010
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While you wait the 13 mil becomes 18 mil+ the wasted 600K+.
Lowell Sun Forum 2010
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While you wait the 13 mil becomes 18 mil+ the wasted 600K+.
Lowell Sun Forum 2010
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While you wait the 13 mil becomes 18 mil+ the wasted 600K+.
Lowell Sun Forum 2010
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On the other hand, my mil is DELIGHTFUL and very sensible.
Most Ridiculous Thing I've Ever Heard kittenpie 2009
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My mil is like that, but only because she really openly doesn't respect me.
She Really is Unbelievable kittenpie 2009
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In as much as one of the core NASA activities should be developing advanced space concepts $4 mil is not adequate.
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Possibly that $250 mil is from a separate fund from the $1B stimulus pumped into NASA's budget.
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Goes by boston_6_actual --- priest_6_actual or sunshine_6_actual hangs out in mil chat room 30 but also at times goes to mil chat room 25..
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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I'm predicting 160 mil. 200 mil is out of the question.
Just How Big Could The Dark Knight's Box Office Be? « FirstShowing.net 2008
reesetee commented on the word mil
See thou.
March 1, 2011