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thresh⋅old

  [thresh-ohld, thresh-hohld]
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–noun
1. the sill of a doorway.
2. the entrance to a house or building.
3. any place or point of entering or beginning: the threshold of a new career.
4. Also called limen. Psychology, Physiology. the point at which a stimulus is of sufficient intensity to begin to produce an effect: the threshold of consciousness; a low threshold of pain.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME threschold, OE threscold, threscwald; c. ON threskǫldr, dial. Sw träskvald; akin to thresh in old sense “trample, tread”; -old, -wald unexplained
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thresh·old   (thrěsh'ōld', -hōld')   
n.  
  1. A piece of wood or stone placed beneath a door; a doorsill.
  2. An entrance or a doorway.
  3. The place or point of beginning; the outset.
  4. The point that must be exceeded to begin producing a given effect or result or to elicit a response: a low threshold of pain.

[Middle English thresshold, from Old English therscold, threscold; see terə-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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Threshold

Thresh"old\, n. [OE. threswold, [thorn]reshwold, AS. [thorn]rescwald, [thorn]erscwald, [thorn]erscold, [thorn]rescold, fr. [thorn]rescan, [thorn]erscan, to thresh; akin to Icel. [thorn]reskj["o]de, [thorn]r["o]skuldr, Sw. tr["o]skel, Dan. t[ae]rskel. See Thrash.]

1. 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.

2. Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life.
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Language Translation for : threshold
Spanish: umbral,
German: die Schwelle,
Japanese: 敷居
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threshold 
O.E. þrescold, þærscwold, þerxold "doorsill, point of entering," first element related to O.E. þrescan (see thresh), with its original sense of "tread, trample." Second element of unknown origin and much transformed in all the Gmc. languages; in Eng. it probably has been altered to conform to hold, but the oft-repeated story that the threshold was a barrier placed at the doorway to hold the chaff flooring in the room is mere folk etymology. Cognates include O.N. þreskjoldr, Swed. tröskel, O.H.G. driscufli, Ger. dial. drischaufel.
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Main Entry: thresh·old
Pronunciation: 'thresh-"hOld
Function: noun
: a point of beginning : a minimum requirement for further action; specifically : a determination (as of fact or the existence of a reasonable doubt) upon which something else (as further consideration or a right of action) hinges threshold for inquiry>

Main Entry: threshold
Function: adjective
: of, relating to, or being a threshold threshold issue in a negligence action is whether the defendant owed a duty of care to the plaintiff —Noakes v. City of Seattle, 895 Pacific Reporter, Second Series 842 (1995)> threshold showing of the need for psychiatric evaluation>
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Main Entry: thresh·old
Pronunciation: 'thresh-"(h)Old
Function: noun
: the point at which a physiological or psychological effect begins to beproduced (as the degree of stimulation of a nerve which just produces a response or the concentration of sugar in the blood at which sugar just begins to pass the barrier of the kidneys and enter theurine) threshold of consciousness> threshold of pain> threshold> called also limen
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threshold thresh·old (thrěsh'ōld', -hōld')
n.

  1. The place or point of beginning; the outset.
  2. The lowest point at which a stimulus begins to produce a sensation.
  3. The minimal stimulus that produces excitation of any structure, eliciting a motor response.

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Threshold

(1.) Heb. miphtan, probably a projecting beam at a higher point than the threshold proper (1 Sam. 5:4,5; Ezek. 9:3; 10:4,18; 46:2; 47:1); also rendered "door" and "door-post." (2.) 'Asuppim, pl. (Neh. 12:25), rendered correctly "storehouses" in the Revised Version. In 1 Chr. 26:15, 17 the Authorized Version retains the word as a proper name, while in the Revised Version it is translated "storehouses."

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