Threshold

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A piece of wood or stone placed beneath a door; a doorsill.
  • n. An entrance or a doorway.
  • n. The place or point of beginning; the outset.
  • n. The point that must be exceeded to begin producing a given effect or result or to elicit a response: a low threshold of pain.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
  • n. An entrance
  • n. The start of the landing area of a runway
  • n. The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit
  • n. The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due
  • n. The outset of an action or project
  • n. 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.
  • n. The point of beginning or entry
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The plank, stone, or piece of timber which lies at the bottom of a door, or under it, particularly the door of a dwelling-house, church, temple, or other building; a door-sill; hence, entrance; gate; door.
  • n. Hence, the place or point of entering or beginning; outset: as, he is now at the threshold of his argument.
  • n. In psychology, the limit below which a given stimulus,' or the difference between two stimuli, ceases to be perceptible. Compare schwelle.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
  • n. the smallest detectable sensation
  • n. a region marking a boundary
  • n. the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway
  • n. the starting point for a new state or experience
    • Verb Form
    thresholding    thresholds   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    edge    bound    boundary    sill    commencement   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gate    door    outset    sill    groundsel   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    doorway    confine    limit    level    boundary   
     
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