What's the difference between mileage and milestone?

Mileage


Definition:

  • (n.) An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.
  • (n.) Aggregate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
  • (2) Certainly, the new leader will need a way to continue to talk unmediated to this base, and may also – like Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage – gain some mileage with the wider electorate for being at ease with himself, and refusing to talk to a script.
  • (3) It was concluded that distance running performance can be maintained while considerably reducing training mileage and increasing exercise intensity twice a week.
  • (4) The game also makes a lot of mileage out of building up razor-sharp tension, reducing the soundtrack to footfalls and creaking doors and then having horrific monsters amble into view as though this is the natural state of things.
  • (5) Using a multiple logistic regression model, the following factors were found to be associated with having one or more URTIs in the follow-up period: living alone (odds ratio = 2.27, 95% CI = 1.01, 5.09), running mileage (486-865 miles, odds ratio = 2.00, 95% CI = 1.01, 2.78; 866-1388 miles, odds ratio = 3.50, 95% CI = 1.52, 4.44; greater than 1388 miles, odds ratio = 2.96, 95% CI = 1.30, 3.68), body mass index greater than the 75th percentile (odds ratio = 0.58, 95% CI = 0.35, 0.94), and male gender (odds ratio = 0.14, 95% CI = 0.03, 0.68).
  • (6) Those most likely to drop out of the study were younger and heavier at baseline and, prior to drop out, were less likely to experience general health problems and more likely to show a 40% decline in weekly running mileage in the month before dropout.
  • (7) The male and female runners were similar in terms of maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max), training mileage, fiber compositions, and data collected during a 60-min treadmill run at 70% VO2max.
  • (8) Environmental factors determining the risk of amenorrhoea in runners are low body fat content, mileage, and nutritional inadequacy, with low intakes of calories, protein, and fat.
  • (9) Mail shots • The Royal Mail handles 75,000,000 items of post every day • Collects from 113,000 different points • Delivers to 28,000,000 addresses • Has 33,000 vehicles using 135,000,000 litres of diesel a year • Has an annual road mileage equivalent to a return trip to Jupiter • Has 12,000 retail outlets • Has annual carbon dioxide emissions of just under 1m tonnes a year, about 0.15% of all UK emissions • Has an annual electricity consumption that would power 112,000 homes • Produces annual landfill waste equivalent to over 2,200 buses • Has an annual water consumption equivalent to 28 litres for every person in the UK
  • (10) The Vo2 max value before conditioning was a relatively poor predictor of the magnitude of improvement in functional capacity, but those with higher initial Vo2 max logged more cumulative training mileage.
  • (11) Women (N = 22) were adverse to the risk of both anemia and iron deficiency without anemia, and their preferences did not correlate with age, running mileage, years of running, or vitamin supplement use.
  • (12) We didn’t have the best mileage and we had a couple of issues in the car.” McLaren looked happier at the end of the day, by which time Jenson Button had clocked up a very respectable 84 laps.
  • (13) "I love this car," said Luis Fretas, owner of a baby-blue 1981 Chevy Malibu, insisting that it "gets great mileage".
  • (14) Increasing mileage is associated with more frequent visits to the doctor, and this increased frequency of medical consultations is due entirely to jogging-related injuries.
  • (15) It shows that runner's hemolysis can be reduced by reducing mileage but not necessarily by changing shoes, and it suggests that runner's hemolysis can impair race performance by preventing the attainment of an optimal red cell mass and, in time, by evolving into iron-deficiency anemia.
  • (16) There were no significant differences in any hormone between low mileage runners and controls.
  • (17) I said: "I'd love to show you how the Copenhagen Consensus is a good idea," and she looked at me and said: "I think that probably might be right, Bjørn, but I will just get so much more mileage out of criticising you."'
  • (18) Diagnosis is not limited to novice runners since runners with significant mileage, or baseball or basketball players, can develop femoral shaft stress fractures.
  • (19) Both mileage groups reported menstrual changes and weight loss since starting to run.
  • (20) These include excessive running mileage and training intensity, hill running, running on hard or uneven surfaces, and wearing poorly designed running shoes.

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.