milestone

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Editorial note

The language is cleaning up, with a major milestone reached a few days ago.

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Quick take

To place milestones along (a road, etc.).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of milestone gathered in one view.

verb

To place milestones along (a road, etc.).

noun

(idiomatic) An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project, etc.

verb

(idiomatic) To plan out a project as a series of major steps.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for milestone.

verb

To place milestones along (a road, etc.).

noun

(idiomatic) An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project, etc.

verb

(idiomatic) To plan out a project as a series of major steps.

noun

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.

Example sentences

The language is cleaning up, with a major milestone reached a few days ago.

We do the same thing as you, create the same milestone in each of the repo's and then use the group milestone view to see an overview.

It would be nice to have a create milestone at the group level that creates the milestone in all projects, would you be willing to contribute that?

They ship whatever the blocked milestone was -- late, of course, because crunching very rarely actually speeds shipping -- and then promptly identify a new milestone to crunch towards.

It seems possible to me that 80 mph is a milestone that's been hit - not the final rating.

Stability at 80 mph is probably better than they've done before, so they can push to the next milestone.

It will be a milestone, not having to wait for someone to die to get a functioning heart or liver.

At the end of each project milestone, you can pay me whatever feels right for you.

So, once you get the first 30% then target the next milestone or 30% to get within 20 days time.

Being told something like that after you've already publicised your milestone dates is not good...

For example, our project has 5-10 repos but they are all part of single release/milestone.

Linked In spammed me once when they reached some sort of milestone.

Quote examples

Recognizing "the churn" so often present in our industry is a major milestone in maturation as a person delivering solutions to problems via creating software.

(Kumbaya!) I really hope we someday get to the point where no one really cares what "country" achieved the next space exploration milestone.

It's certainly possible that kohanz's "hope [that] we someday get to the point where no one really cares what "country" achieved the next space exploration milestone" can be true yet still have competitiveness.