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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
milestone
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
important
▪ The changes represent an important milestone in the development of social work services.
■ VERB
mark
▪ Four surviving children, 12 grandchildren, 26 great grandchildren and six great, great grandchildren helped mark the milestone in style.
▪ So its success marks a significant milestone for the local industry.
▪ This time it was to mark a milestone in the history of exploration.
▪ Rituals mark the milestones of life, and work to bring members of the family together.
▪ At the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery there is a show which marks a milestone in this struggle.
pass
▪ Their abilities to think, to reason, and to feel become more sophisticated as they pass these key emotional milestones.
▪ Dole passed his first milestone with success.
reach
▪ At home, Johnson would have reached the milestone by halftime.
▪ The plastics division reached a milestone this year.
▪ This lack of communication makes it hard for them to reach the milestones described earlier and to achieve healthy emotional development.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ For most people, the birth of their first child is a milestone in their lives.
▪ Graduation and marriage are important milestones in people's lives.
▪ His decision to accept the university's offer was an important milestone in his career.
▪ The album 'Kind Of Blue' proved to be a milestone in the development of modern jazz.
▪ The expedition marked a milestone in the history of exploration.
▪ This year has seen another milestone in the life of the Society, in that our assets passed the £3 billion mark.
▪ We believe that what we have agreed today will be a milestone on the road to true peace and prosperity in our country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dole passed his first milestone with success.
▪ He looked for a milestone, but none was in sight.
▪ I felt as if I was at a milestone now, on the threshold of something.
▪ It fits uncomfortably into Braque's oeuvre but it is nevertheless a milestone in the history of Cubism.
▪ So reaching profitability, even if it came with an asterisk, was a major milestone.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Milestone

Milestone \Mile"stone`\, n.

  1. A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.

  2. An event or accomplishment marking a significant advance in an endeavor; a notable achievment; as, putting a man in orbit was a major milestone on the way to the moon.

    Syn: milepost.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
milestone

1746, from mile + stone (n.).

Wiktionary
milestone

n. 1 A stone milepost (or by extension in other materials), one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median. 2 An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project, etc. vb. 1 To place milestones along (a road, etc.). 2 To plan out a project as a series of major steps.

WordNet
milestone
  1. n. stone post at side of a road to show distances [syn: milepost]

  2. a significant event in your life (or in a project)

Wikipedia
Milestone

A milestone is one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road or boundary at intervals of one mile or occasionally, parts of a mile. They are typically located at the side of the road or in a median. They are alternatively known as mile markers, mileposts or mile posts (sometimes abbreviated MPs). Mileage is the distance along the road from a fixed commencement point.

Milestones are constructed to provide reference points along the road. This can be used to reassure travellers that the proper path is being followed, and to indicate either distance travelled or the remaining distance to a destination. Such references are also used by maintenance engineers and emergency services to direct them to specific points where their presence is required. This term is sometimes used to denote a location on a road even if no physical sign is present. This is useful for accident reporting and other record keeping (e.g., "an accident occurred at the 13 mile mark" even if the road is only marked with a stone once every 10 miles).

Milestone (project management)

''' Milestones are tools used in project management to mark specific points along a project timeline. These points may signal anchors such as a project start and end date, a need for external review or input and budget checks, among others. In many instances, milestones do not impact project duration. Instead, they focus on major progress points that must be reached to achieve success.

Milestone (disambiguation)

For important milestones, statistics and Alexa ranking news concerning the English Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Milestones A milestone is a marker of distance along roads.

Milestone may also refer to:

Milestone (Arlington, Massachusetts)

This Milestone, carved in 1790, is a historic milestone at the intersection of Appleton Street and Paul Revere Road in Arlington, Massachusetts. It denotes the point at which the historic road from Boston to Concord, Massachusetts was from Boston. The road was realigned (to roughly the current alignment of Massachusetts Avenue) in 1811, bypassing the marker. It was moved slightly during road works in 1940, and now sits in a triangular island in the intersection.

The marker was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Milestone (electoral district)

Milestone is a former provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, south of Regina. Originally named "South Regina", this constituency was one of 25 created for the 1st Saskatchewan general election in 1905. It was dissolved and merged with the Bengough district (as Bengough-Milestone) before the 18th Saskatchewan general election in 1975.

It is now part of the constituency of Indian Head-Milestone.

Milestone (song)

Milestone is BoA's first DVD single (31st overall) which was released on December 7, 2011 to commemorate her 10th Anniversary in Japan. The song is written and composed by STY who was requested by Avex to write a song for BoA's 10th Anniversary. The song was first performed at Audio Technica's 50th Anniversary Live Party, and later a 7 seconds snippet of the song live performance at J-Wave Live: Autumn was leaked.

The DVD consists 30 minutes worth of videos, including the music video, making of and short documentary and interview videos.

Milestone (album)

Milestone is the second studio album from Gideon. Facedown Records released the album on July 3, 2012. Gideon worked with Brian Hood, in the production of this album.

Milestone (Chrisette Michele album)

Milestone is the fifth studio album by American R&B recording artist Chrisette Michele. It was released on June 10, 2016 by Caroline Records and Rich Hipster. It was supported by the singles: "Steady", "Unbreakable" and "Equal". It peaked at number seventy-three on US Billboard 200 and received positive reviews from critics.

Usage examples of "milestone".

Year 2 the Kayles had taken up a sixty-four-acre Town grant farm out Milestone Road, about halfway to Sconset, a little south of Gibbs Pond.

Anio Novus, like the Vetus, was at first derived from the river of the same name at the forty-second milestone of the road to Subiaco, great precautions being taken for purifying the water.

And yet it may be pardonable arrogance on our part to say that at this first milestone in our educational career we pause here long enough to take an inventory of what the Negro teacher has done and is still doing in the matter of uplifting his people.

So long-drawn and inconsequential a thing is history--the anamorphous shadow of a milestone reaching down the road between us and the setting sun.

Now this latest milestone: Eight current or former Miami policemen busted in the past week for a smorgasbord of drug crimes, including the ever-popular trafficking of cocaine.

The road from Eastthorpe running westerly and parallel with the river at a distance of about a mile from it sends out at the fourth milestone a byroad to the south, which crosses the river by a stone bridge, and there is no doubt that before the bridge existed there was a ford, and that there was also a chapel hard by where people probably commended their souls to God before taking the water.

All the others had passed by this milestone decades, or centuries, or, in the case of the ancient Dancer Indo, millennia prior.

But it will serve to indicate the four quadrants and a handful of their milestones up to the present.

Persons McDermidhad a certain alliterative charm, but the alliteration seemed strained inMcDermid Reaches a Milestone.

To these milestones of fantastic literature, it is our privilege to add one more masterpiece, Merlin’s Ring.

Figure 4-1 lists some of the milestones in the evolution of the outward forms of individual holons, and alongside them some of the corresponding milestones in the emergent forms of consciousness that I suggest are correlated with them.

Every step we've taken in our evolution is a milestone inscribed with organic memories--from the enzymes controlling the carbon dioxide cycle to the organisation of the brachial plexus and the nerve pathways of the Pyramid cells in the mid-brain, each is a record of a thousand decisions taken in the face of a sudden physico-chemical crisis.

The timer still floating over Antarctica decremented toward the next mission milestone.

An incarnating soul is born with the broad outlines in his life that he must eventually pass, but the time that he spends between these milestones is his own, and he must use these experiences to learn as much as he can, and do as much good as he can.

He discovered he had started now with the statement that this was another milestone in newscasting history—the first direct report from pseudospace or Space Three.