threshold
noun
[ ˈθrɛʃəʊld ]
• a strip of wood 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:
doorstep,
sill,
doorsill,
doorway,
entrance,
entry,
way in,
door,
gate,
gateway,
portal,
approach,
• 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"
Origin:
Old English therscold, 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.
