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Sill vs Plinth - What's the difference?

sill | plinth |

As nouns the difference between sill and plinth

is that sill is (architecture) (also window sill ) a horizontal slat which forms the base of a window or sill can be (uk) a young herring or sill can be the shaft or thill of a carriage while plinth is a block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based.

sill

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sille, selle, .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (architecture) (also window sill ) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window.
    • She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill .
  • (construction) A horizontal, structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings or lying on the ground in earth-fast construction and bearing the upright portion of a frame. Also spelled cill. Also called a ground plate, groundsill, sole, sole-plate, mudsill. An interrupted sill fits between posts instead of being below and supporting the posts in timber framing.
  • (geology) A horizontal layer of igneous rock between older rock beds.
  • * 1980 , U.S. Government Printing Office, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1119
    • Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses;
  • A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
  • (anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
    • the nasal sill
    Usage notes
    Usually spelled cill when used in the context of canal or river engineering.
    Derived terms
    * mudsill * groundsill * window sill
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "sill")
    Related terms
    * lintel * plate sense
  • 13 (construction)

    • Etymology 2

    Compare sile.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK) A young herring.

    • Etymology 3

    Compare thill.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The shaft or thill of a carriage.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    plinth

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
  • The bottom course of stones or bricks supporting a wall.
  • A base or pedestal beneath a cabinet.