Precipice vs Threshold - What's the difference?
precipice | threshold |
A very steep cliff.
* 1719-
The brink of a dangerous situation.
(obsolete) A headlong fall or descent.
The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
(by extension) An entrance
The start of the landing area of a runway
(engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due
The outset of an action or project
The point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things in general. As in emotions, stress, or pain.
The point of beginning or entry
As nouns the difference between precipice and threshold
is that precipice is precipice, deep and steep escarpment while threshold is the bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.precipice
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- I resolved to remove my tent from the place where it stood, which was just under the hanging precipice of the hill; and which, if it should be shaken again, would certainly fall upon my tent...
- ''to stand on a precipice
Synonyms
* cliffthreshold
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(wikipedia threshold)Noun
(en noun)- From all the pressure my partner has been through lately, his emotion threshold has suddenly gotten pretty low these days. I can tell because he easily loses it when he is around people or hears about anything to do with his concerns.