Threshold

Noun

 * 1) The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
 * 2)  An entrance
 * 3) The start of the landing area of a runway
 * 4)  The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit
 * 5) The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due
 * 6) The outset of an action or project
 * 7) 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.
 * From all the pressure my partner been through lately, his emotion threshold has suddenly gotten pretty low these days. I can tell because he easily loses it when he is around people or hears about anything to do with his concerns.

Related terms

 * thresholding
 * thresholdless
 * thresholdlike

Adjectives for Threshold
unhallowed; shadowed; sacred; glimmering; dread; lucky.

Verbs for Threshold
achieve—; arrive at—; attain—; bar from —; bestride—; block—; cloud—; dwell on —; enter—; file through—; flank—; gain —»; huddle at—; reach—; reverence—; screen—; seek—; skirt—; strand at—; stumble over—; veil—.

Thesaurus
French door, archway, back door, barway, beginning, border line, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, break boundary, breakoff point, brink, bulkhead, carriage entrance, ceiling, cellar door, cellarway, circumscription, commencement, compass, confine, cutoff, cutoff point, dawn, deadline, delimitation, determinant, division line, door, doorjamb, doorpost, doorsill, doorstep, doorstone, doorway, edge, end, entrance, entrance hall, entranceway, entry, entryway, extremity, finish, floor, foyer, front door, frontier, galilee, gate, gatepost, gateway, groundsel, hatch, hatchway, hedge, high-water mark, interface, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, line, line of demarcation, lintel, lobby, low-water mark, lower limit, march, mark, mete, mudsill, narthex, outset, point, porch, portal, porte cochere, portico, postern, propylaeum, pylon, scuttle, side door, sill, start, starting line, starting point, stile, stoa, storm door, target date, term, terminal date, terminus, time allotment, tollgate, trap, trap door, turnpike, turnstile, upper limit, verge, vestibule, window sill

Etymology
From þrescold:, from þrescan:

Translations

 * Catalan: llindar
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 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
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 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tröskel


 * Catalan: llindar
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:


 * Macedonian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish:


 * Catalan: llindar
 * Danish: ,
 * Finnish: kynnysarvo
 * French:
 * German:


 * Japanese: 閾値
 * Portuguese: gatilho
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tröskelvärde


 * Danish: bundgrænse
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * Swedish: fribelopp


 * Finnish:
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 * Greek: αφετηρία


 * Greek: ουδός


 * : prag
 * : праг (prag)
 * : llindar
 * : prag
 * : seuil
 * : סף
 * : þröskuldur
 * : soglia
 * : soglia


 * : slenkstis
 * : terskel
 * : umbral, limite, padrão mínimo
 * : prag and
 * : prah
 * : umbral
 * : ముఖద్వారం (mukhadvaaraM), వాకిలి (vaakili)
 * : eşik
 * : eşik