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Sill vs Doorstep - What's the difference?

sill | doorstep |

As nouns the difference between sill and doorstep

is that sill is (also window sill) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window while doorstep is step of a door. The threshold of a doorway.

As a verb doorstep is

to corner somebody for an unexpected interview.

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

    * ----

    doorstep

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Step of a door. The threshold of a doorway.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=10 citation , passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}
  • (figuratively) One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
  • A big slice of bread.
  • :2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy", P 241 ISBN 0-06-052318-2
  • :"I cut myself a doorstep of bread with masses of butter and went along to see Romanov while I was eating it."

    • Verb

  • (journalism) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.
  • * 1998 , Emily O'Reilly, Veronica Guerin: The Life and Death of a Crime Reporter? :
    • Throughout her time in journalism, she doorstepped politicians, the child of a politician, crime victims, armed robbers, murderers, suspected murderers...
  • * 2006 , Denis O'Hearn, Nothing But an Unfinished Song :
    • Surprisingly few people refused to talk, even those I doorstepped or telephoned out of the blue.

    See also

    * ambush journalism

    Anagrams

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