milerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Canada) IPA: /ˈmaɪləɹ/

名詞

miler (plural milers)

1. (sports, often in combination) An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles.
   • 1905, E.W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night:

     But the master himself was an old Oxford miler, who could still bear it better than I; nay, as I flagged and stumbled, I heard him pounding steadily behind.

   • 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, Through the Magic Door:

     The champion sprinter is seldom a five-miler as well.

   • 1972 January 28, “Sports of The Times”, in The New York Times‎:

     Indeed, with a world record‐holder or Olympic champion in almost every race, with six milers who have broken 4 minutes, eight high jumpers who can top 7 feet and seven pole vaulters who have cleared 17 feet, there is no way guessing how many Olympic champions‐elect will be on display in the hatbox over Penn Station.

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2. (in combination) A race whose length is the specified number of miles.

   I ran an eight-miler on Sunday and I'm still feeling sore.

   • 1993 November 11, Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr., “NEW YORK CITY MARATHON; An American Sets Her Sights High”, in The New York Times‎:

     There were some impressive victories, but Fleming believes her most important race was the second of two close second-place finishes to Pippig, one in the Peachtree 10-K in Atlanta in July and the second in a seven-miler in Davenport, Iowa, a week later.

   • 2007 July 15, Gerri Hirshey, “Sisterhood of the Walking Shoe”, in The New York Times‎:

     They started with a mile; by January, they were hitting the trails at Bear Mountain at 7 a.m. on Saturdays for a brisk eight-miler.

   • 2010 March 3, Gina Kolata, “Winter Training: Faster and Safer Indoors?”, in The New York Times‎:

     Mr. Sell continued, “If it’s really icy out or if it’s negative 10 degrees and you are doing an easy six-miler, it probably makes a lot more sense to do it on a treadmill than to risk hurting anything.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:miler.

派生語

• extra-miler
• half-miler
• quarter-miler

アナグラム

• Ilmer, Imler, Rimel, limer