Threshold vs Midrise - What's the difference?
threshold | midrise |
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
(architecture, of a building) Neither high-rise nor low-rise; typically having 4-10 stories
(comptheory, data compression) Having a zero-valued classification threshold (analogous to a riser of a stairway).
(architecture) A building which is neither high- nor low-rise
As nouns the difference between threshold and midrise
is that threshold is the bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill while midrise is (architecture) a building which is neither high- nor low-rise.As an adjective midrise is
(architecture|of a building) neither high-rise nor low-rise; typically having 4-10 stories.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.
midrise
English
Alternative forms
*mid-riseAdjective
(-)- The neighborhood is full of midrise apartment blocks.
- midrise quantization
See also
* midtreadNoun
(en noun)- A lot of new midrises have been built in this area.