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A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.

A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.

Abbreviation of million.

Thousand

A prescribed quantity or extent.

The act or result of measuring.

Metrical rhythm.

A course of action.

(always meter) A device that measures things.

(always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.

(always meter) One who metes or measures.

“a labouring coal-meter”

(elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.

(elsewhere metre) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.

(elsewhere metre) The rhythm pattern in a poem.

(elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

A poem.

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.

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.

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

The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.

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

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

Any similarly large distance.

“The shot missed by a mile.”

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.”

One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

“five miles over the speed limit”

A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.

A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

“the minims of existence”

The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.

A little man or being; a dwarf.

A small fish; a minnow.

A short poetical encomium.

A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).

“You have twenty minutes to complete the test.”

A short but unspecified time period.

“Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!”

A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.

“We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.”

(chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.

“Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.”

A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.

“If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes.”

A point in time; a moment.

A nautical or a geographic mile.

An old coin, a half farthing.

A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.

A fixed part of a module.

A while or a long unspecified period of time

“Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!”

A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.

“July is my favourite month.”

A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.

“We went on holiday for two months.”

(in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge.