threshold
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈθrɛʃhoʊld/
:
umbral
- I dare you to cross this threshold.
- cross the threshold
- stand on the threshold
And there was blood spilled, Joyce's blood across the threshold of that back door.
- And there was blood spilled, Joyce's blood across the threshold of that back door.
- That's the Latin, up to the threshold of a door.
- Just to emphasize visually, this is a threshold.
- All his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.
- And she opens the door and Moore is not standing at the threshold.
- A girl in the bridle threshold of a museum, her white shoulders readied for sculpture and for the thin fingers of her groom.
Examples
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Turning the brassy handle, he stepped cautiously across the threshold into the hallway beyond.
Fiction book (1992) -
Would you like to carry Mrs. Smith over the threshold?
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Here, on this threshold, is placed a gift.
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And then my father carried my mother over the threshold of this world into the next.
Fiction book (1991) -
You want me to carry you across the threshold?
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I'm now going to carry you across the threshold.
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And I tarried behind at the threshold.
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"Thank you," Nina said, pulling the suitcase over the threshold and across the marble-floored lobby toward the elevator.
Fiction book (1991) -
At Emily's footstep on the threshold of the barn, he challenged, "Who's that there?"
Fiction book (1992) -
As she stepped over the threshold, a sense of excitement filled the air.
Synonyms
468
1.0
A door or opening that lets people go into a place
279
1.2
An opening or door used to go into a building
240
1.0
A space in a wall that is the entrance to a room or building
126
1.0
The step at the bottom of a door that you cross to go inside
18
2.6
A small area inside a building next to the front door where people enter
5
3.5
A space at the front of a building where people enter
1
3.7
The flat bottom part of a doorway that you step over to go into a room or building
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
The smallest change in what you see, hear, or taste that a person can notice
- Specialized
The smallest change in something, like light or taste, that a person can notice
- Specialized
A minimum percentage of votes a political party must get to win any seats in parliament
- Specialized
The weakest amount of something that a person or animal can notice with their senses
- Specialized
A part of a circuit that gives an output only when the input reaches a set level
- Specialized
A function that gives 1 when an input is above a fixed number and 0 when not
- Specialized
An electrical device that sends a signal when enough inputs are active
- Specialized
A process that checks values against a set level and marks which values meet it
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Threshold comes from an old word linked to thresh, which means 'to beat grain', and to the floor where people walked. Because that floor was the place you stepped over to enter a house, threshold became the name for the strip at the bottom of a doorway.