What's the difference between runway and threshold?

Runway


Definition:

  • (n.) The channel of a stream.
  • (n.) The beaten path made by deer or other animals in passing to and from their feeding grounds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Heathrow, likewise, said Gatwick's new runway would not solve the issue of hub capacity.
  • (2) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
  • (3) The plans would eventually double the numbers of passengers at the Sussex airport, which believes its current capacity to grow from 34 million to 45 million with a single runway will see it through until the mid-2020s.
  • (4) Labour would not rule any runway options in or out while the Davies commission was still deliberating, she added.
  • (5) The airport, which currently operates over 750,000 flights a year, was backed in July for a third runway by the Davies commission .
  • (6) The patterns of rate changes suggested that the effects of LH stimulation on behavior in the runway were primarily, but not exclusively mediated by a dopaminergic system; that the effects of LH stimulation on tail movement were primarily, but not exclusively mediated by a noradrenergic system; and that the effect of LH stimulation on bar pressing was mediated by both, or either of these substrates.
  • (7) "They're scared," one woman says April 15, 2014 max seddon (@maxseddon) Slavyansk residents are marching to defend their local airstrip, which is a cornfield with no fuel, working planes, or real runway April 15, 2014 Updated at 5.20pm BST 5.04pm BST There are conflicting reports of casualties at Kramatorsk airport, taken by Ukrainian forces Tuesday afternoon local time.
  • (8) Heathrow said all three options offered the chance of adding a fourth runway, if needed.
  • (9) The commission is due to issue an interim report by the end of the year, drawing up a shortlist of potential long-term airport runway schemes.
  • (10) The 777 has enjoyed one of the safest records of any jetliner built.” Besides last year’s Asiana crash, the only other serious incident with the 777 came in January 2008 when a British Airways jet landed 305 metres short of the runway at London’s Heathrow airport.
  • (11) By encouraging (in effect, subsidising) ever more Britons to holiday abroad, extra runway capacity would probably harm rather than help the balance of payments.
  • (12) Passengers on board a flight to Kalibo, in the Philippines, tweeted photos of the plane with its emergency chutes deployed after it apparently overshot the runway while landing in bad weather.
  • (13) However, Friends of the Earth's Jane Thomas said: "We mustn't be taken in by aviation industry spin – building more airports or runways will have a major impact on local communities and our environment."
  • (14) To investigate the importance of perceived substrate structure as a determinant of arboreality, individuals were given opportunities to descend from their home runway and travel to food placed nearby on the ground.
  • (15) People know each other and look out for each other.." When politicians and Heathrow officials started talking about a third runway years ago, there were rumours it could mean the demolition of Harmondsworth.
  • (16) It concluded that passenger numbers could increase by 60% by 2050 – a rise that would require new runways, though the CCC has no opinion on where they are sited – while still cutting total national emissions by 80%.
  • (17) 3:29:26 New York Tracon: "OK, which runway would you like at Teterboro?"
  • (18) Separating the distal anterior tip and lateral edges of an ingrown toenail from the adjacent soft tissue with a wisp of absorbent cotton coated with collodion gives immediate relief of pain and provides a firm runway for further growth of the nail.
  • (19) I used to sit in my garden in Fulham, and enjoy seeing the tailfins.” That experience, he adds quickly, is entirely different from that of people in Cranford and Feltham who live within two miles of the runways.
  • (20) Veterans of the last Heathrow protests are drawing up plans for imminent action after claims that the Airports Commission will recommend additional runways at Britain's biggest airport.

Threshold


Definition:

  • (n.) The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.
  • (n.) Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
  • (2) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
  • (3) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
  • (4) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
  • (5) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
  • (6) The study revealed that hypophysectomy and ventricular injection of AVP dose dependently raised pain threshold and these effects were inhibited by naloxone.
  • (7) The results are consistent with our previous suggestion that lethality for virulent SFV infection results from a lethal threshold of damage to neurons in the CNS and that attenuating mutations may reduce neuronal damage below this threshold level.
  • (8) There were no statistically significant increases in ABR thresholds for irradiated ears vs. control ears.
  • (9) Our previous study demonstrated that acupuncture increased pain threshold of the body, especially in the inflammatory area.
  • (10) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
  • (11) Electrical stimulation of afferent pathways at intensities just below threshold for eliciting action potentials resulted in a dramatic decrease in JSCP threshold.
  • (12) At this threshold there was no effect on reducing the rate of visual acuity overreferrals, but ten children with abnormal binocular vision were detected who were not referred by visual acuity criteria.
  • (13) Noise exposure and demographic data applicable to the United States, and procedures for predicting noise-induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS) and nosocusis, were used to account for some 8.7 dB of the 13.4 dB average difference between the hearing levels at high frequencies for otologically and noise screened versus unscreened male ears; (this average difference is for the average of the hearing levels at 3000, 4000, and 6000 Hz, average for the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles, and ages 20-65 years).
  • (14) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
  • (15) The effects of supervised mild aerobic exercise at the work load of the blood lactate threshold for 10 weeks on serum lipids and apolipoproteins were studied in 24 patients with essential hypertension.
  • (16) Within the high-SR or medium-SR groups, the fibers with the lowest thresholds had the largest threshold shifts.
  • (17) A relationship between the level of sterility induced by juvenoids and reductions in nymph-to-adult ratios permitted formulation of a biological action threshold for regulating treatment.
  • (18) The size of the resulting YACs ranged from 7.7 to 9 kb, considerably below the size threshold found by Zakian et al.
  • (19) The pump function of the heart (oxygen debt dynamics), the anaerobic threshold (complex of gas analytical indices), and the efficacy of blood flow in lesser circulation (O2 consumption plateau) were appraised.
  • (20) Adaptation at 10 deg eccentricity yielded slightly higher threshold elevations than for central vision.