Sill vs Threshold - What's the difference?
sill | threshold |
(architecture) (also window sill ) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window.
(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,
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 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 sill and threshold
is that sill is (also window sill) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window while threshold is the bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.sill
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sille, selle, .Noun
(en noun)- She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill .
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;
- the nasal sill
Usage notes
Usually spelled cill when used in the context of canal or river engineering.Derived terms
* mudsill * groundsill * window sillQuotations
* (English Citations of "sill")Etymology 2
Compare sile.Etymology 3
Compare thill.Anagrams
* ----threshold
English
(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.