THRESHOLD
\θɹˈɛʃə͡ʊld], \θɹˈɛʃəʊld], \θ_ɹ_ˈɛ_ʃ_əʊ_l_d]\
Definitions of THRESHOLD
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The point where a stimulus begins to produce a sensation, the lower limit of perception of a stimulus; schwelle. 2. The external opening of a canal, entrance.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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