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# mil

noun (mil, mils)

«mil» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A mil is a very small unit of thickness, one thousandth of an inch, used for plastic, wire and paper. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mil/#m1)
2. In some old books mil is a short word for a thousand or for a millilitre. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mil/#m2)
3. In informal talk «mil» can mean a million (dollars). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mil/#m3)

### In the lessons

rare in school problems; when it appears it is a unit after a number; in everyday life seen on trash bags and plastic sheets; in money talk «a mil» is slang for a million

### Examples

- The plastic sheet is 4 mils thick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mil/#x1)
- A thick trash bag is 3 mil. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mil/#x2)
- The wire is 10 mils wide. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mil/#x3)
- A mil is much thinner than a millimetre. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mil/#x4)
- The film star earned two mil, he said. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mil/#x5)
- Check the box: the bags are 2 mil thick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mil/#x6)

### Note

A unit word; check from the story what it means. Usually it carries no operation clue. Trap: do not read it as «mile» or «million» unless the story says so. 1000 mils = 1 inch.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mil» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mil/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mil» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mil.html) on Mova free.