Threshold vs Portico - What's the difference?
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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
A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.
Threshold is a related term of portico.
As nouns the difference between threshold and portico
is that threshold is the bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill while portico is (l).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.
