Difference between mile and knot?

Question

Difference between mile and knot?

Answer 1

a mile is = 5280 feet

a knot is = 6080 feet

3 knots = 1 league

Answer 2

A mile is a measure of distance.  A knot is a measure of speed = nautical miles per hour.  It's analogous to miles per hour, but uses nautical miles as the distance instead.

Answer 3

A mile is a distance.

A knot is a speed (equal to 1 Nautical Mile per hour).  A nautical mile is 6,000 feet.

Answer 4

a knot is when you tie your shoe laces up for example

granny knot = for tying granny up

sheep shank = something to do with lonely welsh men

reef knot = for tying yourself to the nearest reef (I suppose)

a mile on the other hand is a quaint imperial measure of length approximately equivalent to 5,721.97 furlongs or 6.23 chains and 1.2 perchpoles remainder

Answer 5

The first three have said it, a mile is a measure of distance and a knot is the speed in nautical miles per hour.

Answer 6

The answer is already well defined so I'll bore you with the origin.  In the days of sailing ships, before instrumentation, the navigator wanted to know the speed of the vessel.

The device used was a 'Taffrail Log'.  It was attached to a small line that had knots tied in it at measured increments.  The Taffrail Log was thrown overboard the attached line would pay out at a rate compatible with the vessels speed through the water.   The navigator would count the number of 'knots' passing through his fingers in a given period of time.  Thus knots came to be the increment of speed on vessels.

Mile on the other hand was initially a unit of distance measurement.  It was a thousand paces of a Roman Legion used to determine distance throughout the empire.  (A pace was equal to two steps.)

Answer 7

Knot is a unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.

1 knot = 1.1507794 mph

Answer 8

Hibbee has the answer.

A mile is a measure of distance, and knot is nautical miles per hour. It equates to approximately 1.15 times miles per hour.