1A sign giving information such as the direction and distance to a nearby town, typically found at a crossroads.

1. 1.1 Something that acts as guidance or a clue to an unclear or complicated issue.
   there are few unambiguous signposts for doctors facing ethical issues

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Instead this section will conclude with some signposts indicating how future theoretical, and perhaps more importantly, empirical work might best be orientated.
   • The short story goes its way without taking much notice of these signposts.
   • The light commercial vehicle market is slightly down on last year's highs, but the heavy truck market, always a good signpost to economic health, remains buoyant.
   • Archer, while a great boxer, wasn't a puncher of any description and that knockdown, as clear as any signpost, indicated that it was time for Sugar Ray to quit.
   • The Stone Roses were a supernova, their debut album a bright flash in the pop universe that remains a signpost and a favorite more than 15 years later.
   • The facts, so far as they can be established, are signposts on the road to a conclusion on the issues; they are not themselves conclusions.
   • Taxonomies are signposts, indicating what is known and what has yet to be discovered.
   • A recipe is merely a guide, and this book's recipes are full of signposts.
   • What viewers have learned is that the conventional signposts indicating truth and fiction can no longer be trusted.
   • Likewise the individual chapters need stronger signposts along the way to guide readers through.
   • The volumes of words written about Nirvana are only signposts, directing us to deeply understand the nature of ourselves and our life.
   • All these elements work together as the signposts and traffic lights of language and their abandonment in favour of free-style expression is causing all kinds of disasters.
   • They prevent time from obliterating the worst of the past and provide signposts that can guide us away from making the same mistakes again.
   • Guided by the signposts of DNA, we have virtually traveled back in time along the genetic stream, from the present to the ancient past, to the era when some determined bands of people first tamed an ox.
   • The minutiae recorded and cataloged by the historian serve as signposts that guide him through the maze of historical events and provide a means of testing out his hypotheses.
   • However, he has also acknowledged ‘I think music can sometimes steer the audience into a way of looking at a scene, as a kind of signpost along the road’.
   • If you've decided on a new career but you're not sure if it's the right direction for you, just look for the signposts.
   • These markers are used as signposts to mark the abnormal gene or the abnormal chromosome.
   • Companions in other words can provide short-cuts to learning, whereas they should be, in principle, providing signposts, which guide the scholar when he or she transacts complex intellectual mazes.
   • When Parliament is involved in defining terms in legislation of this type, it is really important for it to erect signposts and to give indicators about what words like ‘spiritual’ mean.

1Provide (an area) with a signpost or signposts.

大部分步行处都设有路标。

1. 1.1British Indicate (a place or feature) with a signpost.
   〈主英〉用指示牌标示（地点，特征）
   Battle is clearly signposted off all the main roads

   在所有主干道的边上都清楚地标示出战役地点。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • If the bureau cannot offer direct help and advice, they can signpost people to the relevant statutory or specialist bodies to offer assistance.
   • Areas where first aid can be received will be clearly signposted.
   • The museum is clearly signposted on roads into York.
   • The Ballyhoura mountain range is the most popular local venue for hill walking and Griston Bog is signposted in Ballylanders.
   • Before signposting some alternative policy approaches, let me throw some cold water on the doom and gloom predictions as they stand.
   • A well worn path led towards the small town prominently signposted The Great Poet's Cottage, while another path in the other direction led to The Suburbs, amongst other places.
   • The hotel is a mile further to the right and the driveway is clearly signposted.
   • She signposts areas where evidence is lacking and spotlights the more fanciful assumptions.
   • Yet the problem seems to have been clearly signposted in her department back to September last year.
   • Malham is signposted and reached by minor lanes north of the A65 at Hellifield (between Settle and Gargrave).
   • The National Glass Centre is signposted from A19 from York, and also easily accessible by rail.
   • Once there, Raemoir is clearly signposted before you hit the town centre - the tiny hamlet is about two miles outside Banchory.
   • Despite the roadworks on the A360 visitors can reach the vineyard from the West Lavington crossroads where the vineyard is signposted.
   • Roadford Reservoir is clearly signposted from the A30.
   • In each of the chapters the subsections are well signposted and the contents flow comfortably from one topic to another.
   • She said people had been contacting her initially with an email or telephone call; the next step was to establish how best she could assist, whether it was helping to signpost people in the right direction or to fill out an application form.
   • Alfian agreed, but he signposted the missing scenes with leitmotifs and distributed to the audience the excised portions of the script.
   • Follow the narrow road past Gavieside Nursery, and the entrance to Allandale Tarn is clearly signposted on the right.
   • Sites promoted as tourist attractions are usually signposted from main roads; look out for brown-coloured ‘tourist signs’.
   • The reservoir is signposted on the Holmfirth Road, east of Greenfield village.