milestonen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmʌɪlstəʊn/, U.S.

/ˈmaɪlˌstoʊn/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mile n.¹, stone n.

Etymology: < mile n.¹ + stone n.Attested earlier in place names, as Mylestone (1371), Mylez Stone (a1547), now Milestone Wood, Sussex.

A. n.

a. A stone or (usually short) pillar set up beside a road indicating the distance in miles from that point to a particular place.The reference in quot. lOE may be to a Roman milestone on a road in England.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > that which guides or leads > milestone or post

mile mark1610

milliary1610

milestonea1746

milepost1768

mile marker1962

lOE Bounds (Sawyer 142) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1885) I. 308 Of ðære burnan to mila stane. Of þam stane on þa haran apeltreo.]

1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens v. 8 This work..had no particular name; but because it shortened the Appian way, was esteemed part of it: Yet about four hundred Years after, from the number of Mile-stones, it was called Decennovium, the reckoning being..ix miles.

1716 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 282 I take them to be old mile Stones, or Mercurial Stones.

a1746 E. Holdsworth Remarks & Diss. Virgil (1768) 483 The first mile-stone on the Via Appia.

1774 Beverley & Hessle Road Act ii. 17 Roads to be measured and mile stones erected.

1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) I. i. iii. 23 The Cobbler seated himself on a lonely milestone.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. x. 109 She had passed a second milestone by a good long distance, and began to look wistfully towards the bank as if calculating upon another milestone soon.

1908 Times 2 Jan. 8/6 The iron tablet marking the position of Tyburn-gate..is virtually a milestone, marking, as it does, a spot from which the miles on the two great roads that join at Marble Arch are measured.

1977 J. Burke Jowitt's Dict. Eng. Law (ed. 2) II. 1182/2 The trustees of turnpike roads had been required under various repealed statutes to erect milestones at distances of one mile.

1984 G. Jennings Journeyer 509 They looked as ponderous and granitic as roadside milestones.

b. figurative. A significant stage or event in the progress or development of a society, a career, an individual's physical and mental growth, etc.; a measure of progress or change. Cf. landmark n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > a stage in a process or development

degreec1230

greea1340

steadc1370

pointc1475

nick1649

stadium1669

notch1670

grade1796

step1811

milestone1820

way station1863

1820 J. Clare Let. 3 Oct. (1985) 100 Thank you for the mile stone before its put down as then you are aware I shall not have the oppertunity.

1850 R. W. Emerson Uses of Great Men in Representative Men i. 39 For a time, our teachers serve us personally, as metres or milestones of progress.

1874 A. J. C. Hare Jrnl. 1 Nov. in Story of my Life (1900) IV. xvii. 258 An occasional peel-tower stands like a milestone of history.

1897 Notes & Queries 21 Aug. 154/2 Ever since I have passed my eightieth milestone.

1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 53/2 (advt.) Our style and merchandise experts have scoured the world's markets to make this 35th Anniversary Style Book a milestone in Philipsborn's history.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1380/2 The progesterone children in this study are only ahead in standing and walking, but not in the other milestones of teething and talking.

1992 New Scientist 28 Nov. (Suppl.) 5/1 They could find no difference in their ‘psychosexual milestones’—events such as age at first boyfriend or first sexual intercourse.

c. figurative. Originally U.S. A stage to be reached (in a project, etc.), esp. by a specified date; a target.

ΚΠ

1958 PERT Summary Rep. Phase 1 (Bureau of Naval Weapons, U.S. Navy) 2/1 The progress information is based upon a sequence of important milestones together with their scheduled dates for accomplishment.

1964 A. Battersby Network Anal. i. 10 The network was built up from ‘milestones’—events to be achieved by specified dates—in order to comply with the Navy system of ‘Milestone Reporting’ which was current at that time.

1993 Which? Feb. 8/3 OFTEL sets out ‘milestones’ for the companies to meet—so, for example, in a franchise covering 200,000 homes, the company might have to give 40,000 more homes access to cable each year.

2. Extended uses.

†a. slang (derogatory). A rural simpleton; a country bumpkin. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > fool, simpleton > [noun]

boinarda1300

daffc1325

goky1377

nicea1393

unwiseman1400

totc1425

alphinc1440

dawc1500

hoddypeak1500

dawpatea1529

hoddypolla1529

noddy1534

kimec1535

coxcomb1542

sheep1542

sheep's head1542

goose1547

dawcock1556

nodgecock1566

peak-goosea1568

hottie tottie?c1570

Tom Towly1582

wittol1588

goose-cap1589

nodgecomb1592

ninny1593

chicken1600

fopdoodle16..

hoddy-noddy1600

hoddy-doddy1601

peagoose1606

fopster1607

nazold1607

nupson1607

wigeon1607

fondrel1613

simpleton1639

pigwidgeon1640

simpletonian1652

Tony1654

nizy1673

Simple Simon?1673

Tom Farthing1674

totty-head1680

cockcomb1684

cod1699

nikin1699

sap-pate1699

simpkin1699

mackninnya1706

gilly-gaupus?1719

noodle1720

sapskull1735

gobbin?1746

Judy1781

zanya1784

spoony1795

sap-head1798

spoon1799

gomerel1814

sap1815

neddy1818

milestone1819

sunket1823

sunketa1825

gawp1825

gawpy1825

gawpus1826

Tomnoddy1826

Sammy1828

tammie norie1828

Tommy1828

gom1834

noodlehead1835

nowmun1854

gum-sucker1855

flat-head1862

peggy1869

noodledum1883

jay1884

toot1888

peanut head1891

simp1903

sappyhead1922

Arkie1927

putz1928

steamer1932

jerk-off1939

drongo1942

galah1945

Charley1946

nong-nong1959

mouth-breather1979

twonk1981

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 189 Milestone, a country booby.

b. Nautical slang. A type of rough sea (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [noun] > rough state or motion

roughc1400

troublesomeness1648

a bubble of a sea1839

smother1840

sea1927

milestone1946

1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 116 Milestones, the heavy, green seas which break inboard in bad weather.

1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 77/1 Milestone, green sea that hits a ship... Milestones refer to the homeward trip, for, like milestones on country roads they seem to make the journey longer and harder, and one's progress slower in consequence.

1989 R. Jolly Jackspeak Milestone, different pattern of water in a heavy sea that makes the whole ship slam and shudder: ‘Ouch, there goes another milestone on the way home.’

B. adj. (attributive).

Constituting an important stage in development or progress; significant and influential.

ΚΠ

1972 N.Y. Times 24 Sept. 1/1 The current total fertility rate has reached the milestone level of 2.1 children per young woman of child-bearing age.

1974 Publishers Weekly 21 Jan. 82/1 Toffler, whose ‘Future Shock’ was a milestone book of the 60s.

1990 M. M. Mirabito & B. Morgenstern New Communications Technol. iv. 71/1 Two milestone programs in this field [sc. desktop publishing] are PageMaker and Ventura.

1997 Progressive Greetings Nov. 69/2 Driving tests and milestone birthdays are just some of the occasions covered by the new floral designs.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

milestonev.

Brit.

/ˈmʌɪlstəʊn/, U.S.

/ˈmaɪlˌstoʊn/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: milestone n.

Etymology: < milestone n.

transitive. To mark (a stage, etc.) like a milestone; to measure (a journey, etc.) as if by milestones.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (transitive)] > mark (stages) as if by milestones

milestone1868

society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > show (the way) [verb (transitive)] > mark with milestones

milestone1868

1868 Atlantic Monthly 22 514 Her whole life stretching behind and before her in fair order and freshness, milestoned with gracious duties remembered afar off.

1902 J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk 157 And the road was mile-stoned by the parched hides and whitened bones of horses, mules, and oxen.

a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (1924) I. 299 You could look back over that speech and you'd find it dimly milestoned along with those commas.

1922 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 861/1 The Overland is mile-stoned with our bones.

1973 J. Wainwright High-class Kill 149 The book..will make passing reference to these things—as a means, perhaps, of milestoning his climb to the rank of chief constable.

1991 Climber & Hill Walker (BNC) For him the turn from winter to spring is milestoned with our coming.

Derivatives

ˈmilestoning n. literal and figurative

ΚΠ

1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 244/2 In 1593 an Act of Queen Elizabeth fixed the statute mile of 1760 yards..The Act had also required the milestoning of all main roads, though on a local and voluntary basis.

1989 Observer 12 Nov. 62/7 What the lectures lack in structure, pacing and milestoning is more than compensated for by imagination, daring and intellectual somersaults.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	milestone
释义	milestonen.adj. Brit. /ˈmʌɪlstəʊn/, U.S. /ˈmaɪlˌstoʊn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mile n.¹, stone n. Etymology: < mile n.¹ + stone n.Attested earlier in place names, as Mylestone (1371), Mylez Stone (a1547), now Milestone Wood, Sussex. A. n. 1. a. A stone or (usually short) pillar set up beside a road indicating the distance in miles from that point to a particular place.The reference in quot. lOE may be to a Roman milestone on a road in England. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > that which guides or leads > milestone or post mile mark1610 milliary1610 milestonea1746 milepost1768 mile marker1962 lOE Bounds (Sawyer 142) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1885) I. 308 Of ðære burnan to mila stane. Of þam stane on þa haran apeltreo.] 1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens v. 8 This work..had no particular name; but because it shortened the Appian way, was esteemed part of it: Yet about four hundred Years after, from the number of Mile-stones, it was called Decennovium, the reckoning being..ix miles. 1716 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 282 I take them to be old mile Stones, or Mercurial Stones. a1746 E. Holdsworth Remarks & Diss. Virgil (1768) 483 The first mile-stone on the Via Appia. 1774 Beverley & Hessle Road Act ii. 17 Roads to be measured and mile stones erected. 1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) I. i. iii. 23 The Cobbler seated himself on a lonely milestone. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. x. 109 She had passed a second milestone by a good long distance, and began to look wistfully towards the bank as if calculating upon another milestone soon. 1908 Times 2 Jan. 8/6 The iron tablet marking the position of Tyburn-gate..is virtually a milestone, marking, as it does, a spot from which the miles on the two great roads that join at Marble Arch are measured. 1977 J. Burke Jowitt's Dict. Eng. Law (ed. 2) II. 1182/2 The trustees of turnpike roads had been required under various repealed statutes to erect milestones at distances of one mile. 1984 G. Jennings Journeyer 509 They looked as ponderous and granitic as roadside milestones. b. figurative. A significant stage or event in the progress or development of a society, a career, an individual's physical and mental growth, etc.; a measure of progress or change. Cf. landmark n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > a stage in a process or development degreec1230 greea1340 steadc1370 pointc1475 nick1649 stadium1669 notch1670 grade1796 step1811 milestone1820 way station1863 1820 J. Clare Let. 3 Oct. (1985) 100 Thank you for the mile stone before its put down as then you are aware I shall not have the oppertunity. 1850 R. W. Emerson Uses of Great Men in Representative Men i. 39 For a time, our teachers serve us personally, as metres or milestones of progress. 1874 A. J. C. Hare Jrnl. 1 Nov. in Story of my Life (1900) IV. xvii. 258 An occasional peel-tower stands like a milestone of history. 1897 Notes & Queries 21 Aug. 154/2 Ever since I have passed my eightieth milestone. 1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 53/2 (advt.) Our style and merchandise experts have scoured the world's markets to make this 35th Anniversary Style Book a milestone in Philipsborn's history. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1380/2 The progesterone children in this study are only ahead in standing and walking, but not in the other milestones of teething and talking. 1992 New Scientist 28 Nov. (Suppl.) 5/1 They could find no difference in their ‘psychosexual milestones’—events such as age at first boyfriend or first sexual intercourse. c. figurative. Originally U.S. A stage to be reached (in a project, etc.), esp. by a specified date; a target. ΚΠ 1958 PERT Summary Rep. Phase 1 (Bureau of Naval Weapons, U.S. Navy) 2/1 The progress information is based upon a sequence of important milestones together with their scheduled dates for accomplishment. 1964 A. Battersby Network Anal. i. 10 The network was built up from ‘milestones’—events to be achieved by specified dates—in order to comply with the Navy system of ‘Milestone Reporting’ which was current at that time. 1993 Which? Feb. 8/3 OFTEL sets out ‘milestones’ for the companies to meet—so, for example, in a franchise covering 200,000 homes, the company might have to give 40,000 more homes access to cable each year. 2. Extended uses. †a. slang (derogatory). A rural simpleton; a country bumpkin. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > fool, simpleton > [noun] boinarda1300 daffc1325 goky1377 nicea1393 unwiseman1400 totc1425 alphinc1440 dawc1500 hoddypeak1500 dawpatea1529 hoddypolla1529 noddy1534 kimec1535 coxcomb1542 sheep1542 sheep's head1542 goose1547 dawcock1556 nodgecock1566 peak-goosea1568 hottie tottie?c1570 Tom Towly1582 wittol1588 goose-cap1589 nodgecomb1592 ninny1593 chicken1600 fopdoodle16.. hoddy-noddy1600 hoddy-doddy1601 peagoose1606 fopster1607 nazold1607 nupson1607 wigeon1607 fondrel1613 simpleton1639 pigwidgeon1640 simpletonian1652 Tony1654 nizy1673 Simple Simon?1673 Tom Farthing1674 totty-head1680 cockcomb1684 cod1699 nikin1699 sap-pate1699 simpkin1699 mackninnya1706 gilly-gaupus?1719 noodle1720 sapskull1735 gobbin?1746 Judy1781 zanya1784 spoony1795 sap-head1798 spoon1799 gomerel1814 sap1815 neddy1818 milestone1819 sunket1823 sunketa1825 gawp1825 gawpy1825 gawpus1826 Tomnoddy1826 Sammy1828 tammie norie1828 Tommy1828 gom1834 noodlehead1835 nowmun1854 gum-sucker1855 flat-head1862 peggy1869 noodledum1883 jay1884 toot1888 peanut head1891 simp1903 sappyhead1922 Arkie1927 putz1928 steamer1932 jerk-off1939 drongo1942 galah1945 Charley1946 nong-nong1959 mouth-breather1979 twonk1981 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 189 Milestone, a country booby. b. Nautical slang. A type of rough sea (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [noun] > rough state or motion roughc1400 troublesomeness1648 a bubble of a sea1839 smother1840 sea1927 milestone1946 1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 116 Milestones, the heavy, green seas which break inboard in bad weather. 1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 77/1 Milestone, green sea that hits a ship... Milestones refer to the homeward trip, for, like milestones on country roads they seem to make the journey longer and harder, and one's progress slower in consequence. 1989 R. Jolly Jackspeak Milestone, different pattern of water in a heavy sea that makes the whole ship slam and shudder: ‘Ouch, there goes another milestone on the way home.’ B. adj. (attributive). Constituting an important stage in development or progress; significant and influential. ΚΠ 1972 N.Y. Times 24 Sept. 1/1 The current total fertility rate has reached the milestone level of 2.1 children per young woman of child-bearing age. 1974 Publishers Weekly 21 Jan. 82/1 Toffler, whose ‘Future Shock’ was a milestone book of the 60s. 1990 M. M. Mirabito & B. Morgenstern New Communications Technol. iv. 71/1 Two milestone programs in this field [sc. desktop publishing] are PageMaker and Ventura. 1997 Progressive Greetings Nov. 69/2 Driving tests and milestone birthdays are just some of the occasions covered by the new floral designs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). milestonev. Brit. /ˈmʌɪlstəʊn/, U.S. /ˈmaɪlˌstoʊn/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: milestone n. Etymology: < milestone n. transitive. To mark (a stage, etc.) like a milestone; to measure (a journey, etc.) as if by milestones. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (transitive)] > mark (stages) as if by milestones milestone1868 society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > show (the way) [verb (transitive)] > mark with milestones milestone1868 1868 Atlantic Monthly 22 514 Her whole life stretching behind and before her in fair order and freshness, milestoned with gracious duties remembered afar off. 1902 J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk 157 And the road was mile-stoned by the parched hides and whitened bones of horses, mules, and oxen. a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (1924) I. 299 You could look back over that speech and you'd find it dimly milestoned along with those commas. 1922 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 861/1 The Overland is mile-stoned with our bones. 1973 J. Wainwright High-class Kill 149 The book..will make passing reference to these things—as a means, perhaps, of milestoning his climb to the rank of chief constable. 1991 Climber & Hill Walker (BNC) For him the turn from winter to spring is milestoned with our coming. Derivatives ˈmilestoning n. literal and figurative ΚΠ 1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 244/2 In 1593 an Act of Queen Elizabeth fixed the statute mile of 1760 yards..The Act had also required the milestoning of all main roads, though on a local and voluntary basis. 1989 Observer 12 Nov. 62/7 What the lectures lack in structure, pacing and milestoning is more than compensated for by imagination, daring and intellectual somersaults. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1662v.1868
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