What's the difference between milepost and milestone?

Milepost


Definition:

  • (n.) A post, or one of a series of posts, set up to indicate spaces of a mile each or the distance in miles from a given place.

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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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