What's the difference between deliverable and milestone?

Deliverable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We are uncertain of the structure, deliverability and conditionality of what is proposed by Moelis, but we are willing to engage with them to investigate further.
  • (2) The treatments were equally deliverable, with 76% of patients completing their allocated regimen.
  • (3) Surgical resection of regional lymph nodes and renal vein thrombus, if present, is recommended, since the deliverance of full radiation doses is not likely without exceeding tolerance of vital normal tissues.
  • (4) Compared to Heathrow we are cheaper, quicker, have a significantly lower environmental impact and we are the most deliverable solution."
  • (5) There are some very serious question marks about whether others will ever really happen in practice and whether they are deliverable.
  • (6) However, health care deliverers and users in general are expected to increase their support and consideration for the information provided by the Board, in order to fulfill the purpose for which it was established.
  • (7) "However, there are major political risks over this scenario, reflecting uncertainties over whether the post-2015 spending squeeze is politically deliverable, especially if the 2015 election produces a Labour-led majority or coalition government," he said.
  • (8) The nurse will be the healthcare change agent of the twenty-first century using the expertise developed as the deliverer to the patient while the physician will become the advisor to patients, business, and the community.
  • (9) For him, "a world in which we are no longer burdened by debt, credit, hock, mortgage, HP, might not be a grievous loss but a deliverance … a more modest and more prudent way of living".
  • (10) The provider leadership task must be deliverable – an averagely performing foundation trust or trust has to be able to stay in surplus and carry a reasonable level of risk.
  • (11) What I want is an immediate and urgent ceasefire, but we want it to be based on deliverables for the future."
  • (12) One-hundred nineteen control patients, exposed 789 times to noncarrier health care deliverers, were also negative.
  • (13) Deliverances or exorcisms can often involve physical violence.
  • (14) The in vitro response of P. falciparum to amodiaquine, quinine and quinidine was assessed in Tanga region where chloroquine resistance is established, to determine baseline susceptibility levels which could guide health care deliverers on the suitability of these drugs for the treatment of falciparum malaria in the areas studied.
  • (15) One plausible explanation for the discrepancy between fact and remembrance is that the survivors, who regarded their own deliverance as miraculous, found the chances slim that someone as helpless as a dwarf could escape death.
  • (16) The truth is that Nigeria is a failed state as a deliverer of safety, health and education to its people, but a very successful state for those who own and control or benefit from its increasingly dynamic economy.
  • (17) Other medications might be deliverable via the GI tract in the early postoperative period.
  • (18) As reports of possible bid for child protection contracts make clear, it hopes to be a prime deliverer of many more important, sensitive services.
  • (19) "Exam boards agree with us that, on the face of it, this timetable is deliverable, but of course we will take action if at any time the timetable is at risk," Stacey told Gove in a letter published on Friday (pdf).
  • (20) He said: “I just don’t think it makes sense to say you’re never going to have a single metre of extra concrete anywhere, in any runway anywhere in the United Kingdom...It will need to be discussed again because – how can I put it – I’ve seen the perils of the past of putting something which you know in your heart of hearts is not necessarily deliverable.” But Clegg said he accepted the vote.

Milestone


Definition:

  • (n.) A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Criteria examined were birth history, developmental milestones, school history, total number of seizures, neurological examination, and computed tomography (CT) findings.
  • (2) Although current results, particularly those with neonates, suggest that arterial repair may displace the Mustard operation, it remains a milestone in the history of TGA.
  • (3) The evolution of treatment of laryngeal cancer has passed a number of milestones.
  • (4) Kisker that appeared in the 'sixties of the present century are milestones along an important path of panoramic changes in the recent history of psychiatry.
  • (5) It should be considered that the continued success and achievement of the milestones of health care in Papua New Guinea require close surveillance and support at the basic level.
  • (6) On the milestone 25th anniversary, Tiananmen is more important than ever.
  • (7) Tendulkar moved to 95 by driving Paul Harris for six, then edged towards 100, ultimately reaching the milestone in his 175th Test with a single off Dale Steyn.
  • (8) This model of care treats the general milestones of pregnancy while completely ignoring the patient, making their needs almost invisible to the health system.
  • (9) "This is a major milestone and testament to the burgeoning reputation of UK automotive excellence and demand for British-made cars."
  • (10) Milestones in the evolution of the eukaryotic cell are being discovered through the analysis of molecular sequences.
  • (11) Eddie Howe’s team had decent spells of possession but they could not create anything of clearcut note and Petr Cech reached his heavily signposted milestone as the Premier League’s clean-sheet king without needing to make a serious save.
  • (12) As a broadcasting milestone, however, the party leaders' election debate was up there with the Coronation and the Speaker's first televised "Order, Order" from the House of Commons.
  • (13) The first one was characterized by delayed motor milestones, hypotonia and proximal weakness in a 2-year-old girld.
  • (14) In the second part, quantitation of neural units along key points of the pathways will be presented at milestones in tooth and organism development and aging.
  • (15) To mark the occasion the country's president, Lee Myung-bak, paid a visit to the site, praising a "huge milestone" for South Korea's engineers, who had helped the country achieve "the dream of independent nuclear technology".
  • (16) As the child gets older, motor milestones paralleling those of a normal child should be sought with use of a corner chair or sitting device, followed by the use of a standing frame if needed.
  • (17) Thompson said its sale "represents another milestone in the way the BBC is changing" from a number of broadcasting bases to key HQs in the capital and around the country, including the newly-refurbished Broadcasting House in central London and BBC North in Salford.
  • (18) A gainst the milestone today of his first 100 days as Labour leader, we are having to reassess the common view of Jeremy Corbyn .
  • (19) The chancellor, George Osborne, welcomed the news as a “milestone for the British economy” that will ease the pressure on household budgets as he sought to rebuff fears that the UK could be headed towards “damaging deflation”.
  • (20) This article reviews the major milestones in obstetric research in the past 90 years, which have lead to the wide-spread use of salt restriction during pregnancy.

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