different between brim vs threshold

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English brim, from Old English brim (“surf, flood, wave, sea, ocean, water, sea-edge, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *brim? (“turbulence, surge; surf, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *breman? (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rem-, *b?erem-, *b?rem(e)-, *breme- (“to hum, make a noise”). Cognate with Icelandic brim (“sea, surf”), Old English brymm, brym (“sea, waves”), Old English bremman (“to rage, roar”), Dutch brommen (“to hum, buzz”), German brummen (“to hum, drone”), Latin frem? (“roar, growl”, verb), Ancient Greek ????? (brém?, “roar, roar like the ocean”, verb).

Noun

brim (plural brims)

1. (obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.

Derived terms

• brimsand

Etymology 2

From Middle English brim, brem, brimme (“margin, edge of a river, lake, or sea”), probably from Middle English brim (“sea, ocean, surf, shore”). See above. Cognate with Dutch berm (“bank, riverbank”), Bavarian Bräm (“border, stripe”), German Bräme, Brame (“border, edge”), Danish bræmme (“border, edge, brim”), Swedish bräm (“border, edge”), Icelandic barmur (“edge, verge, brink”). Related to berm.

Noun

brim (plural brims)

1. An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).

   • The feet of the priest that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water.

   • 1819, "A Portrait", in Peter Bell

     A primrose by a river ' s brim

2. The topmost rim or lip of a container.
   • 1813, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Remorse

     Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim / I would remove it with an anxious pity.

3. A projecting rim, especially of a hat.

Derived terms

• brimful
• to the brim

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Verb

brim (third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed)

1. (intransitive) To be full to overflowing.

   The room brimmed with people.

   • 2006 New York Times

     It was a hint of life in a place that still brims with memories of death, a reminder that even five years later, the attacks are not so very distant.
2. (transitive) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
   • Tennyson:

     Arrange the board and brim the glass.

Translations

Etymology 3

Either from breme, or directly from Old English bremman (“to roar, rage”) (though not attested in Middle English).

Verb

brim (third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed)

1. Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.

Etymology 4

See breme.

Adjective

brim (comparative more brim, superlative most brim)

1. (obsolete) Fierce; sharp; cold.

Anagrams

• IBMR, IRBM

Indonesian

Etymology

From English brim, from Middle English brim, brem, brimme (“margin, edge of a river, lake, or sea”), probably from Middle English brim (“sea, ocean, surf, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *brim? (“turbulence, surge; surf, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *breman? (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rem-, *b?erem-, *b?rem(e)-, *breme- (“to hum, make a noise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?br?m]
• Hyphenation: brim

Noun

brim (first-person possessive brimku, second-person possessive brimmu, third-person possessive brimnya)

1. brim: a projecting rim of a hat.

Further reading

• “brim” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brim/

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brim?.

Noun

brim n

1. (poetic) the edge of the sea or a body of water
2. (poetic) surf; the surface of the sea
3. (poetic) sea, ocean, water

Declension

Derived terms

• briml?þend

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brim?.

Noun

brim n

1. surf

Declension

References

• brim in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

English

Etymology

From Middle English threschwolde, threscholde, from Old English þres?old, þerxold, þrexwold (“doorsill, entryway”), from Proto-Germanic *þreskudlaz, *þresk?þlijaz, *þreskwaþluz, from Proto-Germanic *þreskan?, *þreskwan? (“to thresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh?- (“to rub, turn”). Cognate with Low German Drüssel (“threshold”), dialectal German Drischaufel, Drissufle, Trüschübel (“threshold”), Danish tærskel (“threshold”), Swedish tröskel (“threshold”), dialectal Swedish träskvald (“threshold”), Icelandic þröskuldur (“threshold”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???e?(h)??ld/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?????(h)o?ld/

Noun

threshold (plural thresholds)

1. The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
2. (by extension) An entrance; the door or gate of a house.
3. (by extension) Any end or boundary.
4. (figuratively) The outset of something; the point of entry, or the beginning of an action.
   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi:

     I arrived at last, did obeisance to my uncle, and told him everything. He thought it over and said: ' […] At the threshold of death, how dare I give you permission to go to England, to cross the seas? But I will not stand in your way. It is your mother's permission which really matters. If she permit you, then godspeed! Tell her I will not interfere. You will go with my blessings.'

5. (aviation) The start of the landing area of a runway.
6. (engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
7. The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due.
8. 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.

Derived terms

• thresholding
• thresholdless
• thresholdlike

(Expressions:)

• displaced threshold
• Micawber threshold
• threshold braking
• threshold effect
• threshold potential
• threshold worker

Antonyms

• (bottom-most part of a doorway): lintel

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