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Climax vs Milestone - What's the difference?

climax | milestone |

As nouns the difference between climax and milestone

is that climax is climax while milestone is 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.

As a verb milestone is

to place milestones along (a road, etc).

climax

English

Noun

(es)
  • The point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series; a culmination
  • * 1949 , Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,
  • The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when the seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.
  • The turning point in a plot or in dramatic action, especially one marking a change in the protagonist's affairs.
  • (ecosystem)(label) A stage of ecological development in which a community of organisms is stable and capable of perpetuating itself.
  • (slang) An orgasm.
  • (rhetoric) Ordering of terms in increasing order of importance or magnitude.
  • (rhetoric) Anadiplosis.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Coordinate terms

    * (order by increasing importance) catacosmesis

    Derived terms

    * climactic * climax community

    Verb

    (es)
  • To reach or bring to a climax
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  • To orgasm; to reach orgasm
  • milestone

    Noun

    (en 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.
  • An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project, etc.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author= , title=Well-connected Brains , volume=100, issue=2, page=171 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}

    Synonyms

    * landmark

    Verb

    (mileston)
  • To place milestones along (a road, etc.).
  • To plan out a project as a series of major steps.
  • Anagrams

    * limestone