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deadline
English
Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, early usage refers simply to lines that do not move, such as one used in angling. Slightly later American usage refers to a boundary in a prison which prisoners must not cross. There is only indirect evidence that the sense of "due date" may be connected with this use of the term in prison camps during the American Civil War, when it referred to a physical line or boundary beyond which prisoners were shot. In fact, the term is no longer found in print by the end of the 19th century, but it soon resurfaces in writing in 1917 as a printing term for a guideline on the bed of a printing press beyond which text will not print. Three years later, the term is found in print in the sense of "time limit" in the closely connected publishing industry, indicating the time after which material would not make it into a newspaper or periodical.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?d?la?n/
Noun
deadline (plural deadlines)
- A time limit in the form of a date on or before which something must be completed.
- (archaic) A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press.
- (archaic) A line that does not move. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (archaic) A boundary around a prison, prisoners crossing which would be shot.
Derived terms
- deadliner
- deadline fighter
- postdeadline
Translations
Verb
deadline (third-person singular simple present deadlines, present participle deadlining, simple past and past participle deadlined)
- (military) To render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.
References
Anagrams
- denailed
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English deadline.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?t.l?i?n/, /?d?d.l?i?n/
- Hyphenation: dead?line
Noun
deadline m (plural deadlines, diminutive deadlinetje n)
- deadline.
- Synonym: termijn
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English deadline.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dedl?i?n/, [?de?dl?i?n]
Noun
deadline
- (colloquial) deadline
Declension
The declension of this word is problematic. Joukahainen recommends the nalle-type declension, presumably based on the (English) spelling of the nominative of the word:
On the other hand, the nalle-type declension does not fit the pronunciation, which in fact follows the risti-type declension (except in the nominative: /dedlain/), in other words, /dedlainin/, /dedlainia/, etc. in the genitive, partitive, etc. It's probably advisable to avoid using this word in writing and to use Finnish synonyms instead.
Synonyms
- kalmanviiva (colloquial)
- kuolemanlinja (colloquial)
- kuolonlinja (colloquial)
- määräaika
- takaraja
Further reading
- deadline in Kielitoimiston sanakirja
Polish
Etymology
From English deadline.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?.dlajn/
Noun
deadline m inan
- (informal) deadline (date on or before which something must be completed)
Declension
Further reading
- deadline in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- deadline in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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threshold
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)
- The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
- (by extension) An entrance; the door or gate of a house.
- (by extension) Any end or boundary.
- (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.'
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi:
- (aviation) 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 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
Translations
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