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   Thresh·old

   /ˈTHreSHˌ(h)ōld/

   

   noun

   • 1. a strip of wood, metal, or stone forming the bottom of a doorway and crossed in entering a house or room: "he stood on the threshold of Sheila's bedroom" Similar doorstepsilldoorsilldoorwayentranceentryway indoorgategatewayportalapproach
   • ▪ a point of entry or beginning: "she was on the threshold of a dazzling career" Similar startstarting pointbeginningbrinkvergeedgedawnbirthorigininceptionconceptionopeninglaunchinaugurationinstitutioninitiationdebutcreationday oneinformal:kickoffformal:commencementOpposite end
   • ▪ the beginning of an airport runway on which an aircraft is attempting to land.
   • 2. the magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a certain reaction, phenomenon, result, or condition to occur or be manifested: "nothing happens until the signal passes the threshold"
   • ▪ the maximum level of radiation or a concentration of a substance considered to be acceptable or safe: "their water would meet the safety threshold of 50 milligrams of nitrates per liter" Similar lower limitstarting pointminimummarginlimen
   • ▪ a limit below which a stimulus causes no reaction: "everyone has a different pain threshold"
   • ▪ a level, rate, or amount at which something comes into effect: "the tax threshold has risen to $10,492 of adjusted gross income"

   Word Origin Old Englishtherscold, threscold; related to German dialect Drischaufel; the first element is related to thresh (in a Germanic sense ‘tread’), but the origin of the second element is unknown.

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   A threshold is a point of departure or transition. Graduation can mark a threshold — when you graduate from circus school, you're standing at the threshold of your new career as a trapeze artist. Another kind of threshold is a limit or boundary.

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   • Threshold is a very old word, dating to c.1000 and probably earlier. The word thresh originally meant to stamp on or trample and survives today in the verb to thresh (wheat) and in thrash. The hold portion is of unknown origin. The threshold is literally the first place in a building you step and has evolved to mean any gateway.

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   • threshold (n.) Old English þrescold, þærscwold, þerxold, etc., "door-sill, point of entering," a word of uncertain origin and probably much altered by folk-etymology.. The first element probably is related to Old English þrescan (see thresh), either in its current sense of "thresh" or with its original sense of "to tread, trample."The second element has been much transformed in all the ...

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   • The plural form of threshold is thresholds . Find more words! Delegated powers, framed in statements of reserved powers, detail the thresholds of decision making on a number of key issues. Among the archaebacteria, the genome that is most similar to yeast at all thresholds is that of the methanogen Methanosarcina mazei.

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