Threat vs Impact - What's the difference?
threat | impact |
An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
* (William Shakespeare)
An indication of imminent danger.
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, title= A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
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, title= (label) To press; urge; compel.
(archaic) To threaten.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
* 1599 , , V. i. 37:
(label) To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.
The striking of one body against another; collision.
The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
(chiefly, medicine) A forced impinging.
A significant or strong influence; an effect.
To compress; to compact; to press or pack together.
(proscribed) To influence; to affect; to have an on.
To collide or strike.
As nouns the difference between threat and impact
is that threat is an expression of intent to injure or punish another while impact is the striking of one body against another; collision.As verbs the difference between threat and impact
is that threat is (label) to press; urge; compel while impact is to compress; to compact; to press or pack together.threat
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), .Noun
(en noun)- There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats .
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- An hideous Geant horrible and hye, / That with his talnesse seemd to threat the skye
- O yes, and soundless too; / For you have stolen their buzzing, Antony, / And very wisely threat before you sting.
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsimpact
English
Noun
(en noun)- The hatchet cut the wood on impact .
- His spine had an impingement; L4 and L5 made impact , which caused numbness in his leg.
- His friend's opinion had an impact on his decision.
- Our choice of concrete will have a tremendous impact on the building's mechanical performance.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "impact": social, political, physical, positive, negative, good, bad, beneficial, harmful, significant, great, important, strong, big, small, real, huge, likely, actual, potential, devastating, disastrous, true, primary. * The adposition generally used with "impact" is "on" (such as in last example in section above) * There are English speakers who are so ). In defensive editing, the solution is to replace the figurative noun sense with effect'' and the verb sense with ''affect , which nearly always produces an acceptable result. (Rarely, a phrase such as "the impact of late effects" is better stetted to avoid "the effect of [...] effects".)Derived terms
* impactful * impactive * impact statement * Western impactVerb
(en verb)- If fecal incontinence is caused by impacted stool in the rectum, the impaction must be removed.
- ''I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.
- When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.