What's the difference between signpost and thesis?

Signpost


Definition:

  • (n.) A post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of anything.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nevertheless we know that there will remain a large number of borrowers with payday loans who are struggling to cope with their debts, and it is essential that these customers are signposted to free debt advice.
  • (2) Social prescribing schemes, by their nature, vary considerably but generally provide a way for GPs and other primary care professionals to offer or signpost to non-clinical referral options instead of, or alongside, clinical ones,” says the report’s author, David Buck.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) Endoscopic signs of recent hemorrhage from an ulcer were significant signposts to rebleeding.
  • (5) They say jobcentres only "signpost" the existence of food banks and dispute the link between welfare changes and a surge in their use.
  • (6) The fury of these respondents comes as no surprise, but Washington should treat it with deadly seriousness all the same, for this latest outrage is another fateful signpost on the road to a potential security and geostrategic disaster that may ultimately make Afghanistan look like a sideshow.
  • (7) There are Quo signposts on all the walls, so nobody gets lost.
  • (8) Many food banks act as signposting organisations, with agencies on hand to offer help to people for the issues that led them to the bank in the first place.
  • (9) However, ministers continued to insist this only amounted to "signposting" in the right direction.
  • (10) Dementia challengers website: This site signposts carers looking after a person living with dementia to a wide range of online support services and resources.
  • (11) Sensible teachers will look at that as the broadest of signposting."
  • (12) The relaying of pathways and installation of signposts, information boards and memorial sites cost €10m and took three years but has been a success with locals and visitors.
  • (13) Local charities like Off Centre can build strong partnerships with like-minded organisations, including NHS mental health services, to signpost and provide a more holistic service for young people.
  • (14) We let out a cheer, executed a U-turn, and set out down the sandy track signposted towards the beach.
  • (15) Bird travelled along the valley road, colliding with oncoming vehicles and a stone wall before turning off the road signposted 'no through road' to Doctor Bridge, Boot.
  • (16) UTV claimed the station was failing in its commitment, signposted to the then BBC governors in 2001, to "expand the range and scope of sports coverage".
  • (17) The internet can't decide Read more Memes aren’t always signposts to a brave new world, however; sometimes they feel positively retro.
  • (18) Certainly, I can't think of another slum in Europe that has broad, well-signposted cycle paths on which stately middle-aged women in headscarves pedal their groceries home.
  • (19) In the middle of the walkway, a big red signpost informs that tipping street performers is optional.
  • (20) Rather than just providing an online directory of services local authorities must signpost the most effective resources.

Thesis


Definition:

  • (n.) A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.
  • (n.) Hence, an essay or dissertation written upon specific or definite theme; especially, an essay presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree.
  • (n.) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
  • (n.) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis.
  • (n.) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
  • (n.) The part of the foot upon which such a depression falls.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.
  • (2) Data interpretation confirms the well-known thesis that reproductive health protection is not only of a medical and biological but of very wide interdisciplinary interest when the woman is on the brink of the important for her personally and finally for the society as well decision pro and con real pregnancy.
  • (3) The data favor the thesis that neutralization of BVD virus occurs by a multi-hit mechanism and requires combination of at least two molecules of antibody with each virus.
  • (4) Clinical material is used to illustrate this thesis.
  • (5) I went to work at Carville at the invitation of Dr. Kirchheimer, who had seen my Ph.D. thesis.
  • (6) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
  • (7) The thesis considered was that angiotensin II may have a greater role in the fetus than in the adult since the autonomic nervous system does not develop fully until late in gestation.
  • (8) My immediate suspicion is that the pupil is taking the same course as the master, though I accept it is a large thesis to hang on beige furnishings.
  • (9) Doctors who were general practitioners in the period 1973-88 and had written a successful MD or PhD thesis were identified.
  • (10) A leaked cabinet committee memo in 2010 showed coalition ministers were advised on coming into government that it was wrong "to regard radicalisation in this country as a linear 'conveyor belt' moving from grievance, through radicalisation, to violence … This thesis seems to both misread the radicalisation process and to give undue weight to ideological factors".
  • (11) The present thesis focuses on the etiology, diagnosis, progression and prevention of dentoalveolar ankylosis.
  • (12) As previously observed the fraction that escapes depends on the solvent viscosity [Marden, M. C. (1983) Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois-Urbana].
  • (13) Hakim is keen to stress that her thesis is "evidence based" and nothing to do with prejudice or ideology, and finishes her introduction with this rallying cry: "why not champion femininity rather than abolish it?
  • (14) The results obtained will allow to test experimentally the theoretical predictions made by A. Goldbeter (1973) PhD thesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles, on the distribution of carbamoyl phosphate and the oscillation of its intracellular concentration.
  • (15) These data support the thesis that cell transport of calcium is accomplished by the attachment of calcium atoms to the cell surface and transport through the plasma membrane bound to either specific carriers or to membrane constituents.
  • (16) To illustrate his thesis he presents the case history of a man who was fatally affected by the family myth and mystification process.
  • (17) The present studies were designed to estimate fetal weight on the basis of the thesis that the factors which determine body weight include the fetal bone and the amount of fetal soft tissue, i.e., fetal corpulence.
  • (18) We describe an approach that is based on the thesis that dermatologists can and often should treat such patients.
  • (19) For that reason the electron microscope method with an optically higher resolution was chosen for this thesis.
  • (20) Both polyribosomes and 70S ribosomes that were isolated on sucrose density gra dients and tested separately in cell-free systems were capable of protein syn thesis; however, polyribosomes formed more protein per unit of RNA than monosomes did.