thresholdnoun
uk/ˈθreʃ.həʊld/us/ˈθreʃ.hoʊld/threshold noun (ENTRANCE)
[ C ] the floor of an entrance to a building or room
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Parts of buildings: doors & parts of doors
- architrave
- bell push
- door
- door knocker
- doorbell
- doorway
- draught excluder
- entrance 1
- fire door
- five-bar gate
- French doors
- knob
- knocker
- letterbox
- revolving door
- screen door
- stage door
- storm door/window
- swing door
- weatherboarding
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threshold noun (LEVEL)
C2 [ C usually singular ] the level or point at which you start to experience something, or at which something starts to happen:
I have a low/high boredom threshold (= I do/don't feel bored easily).
His secretary earns £268 a month, well below the threshold for paying tax.
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Range and limits
- all the way to idiom
- ambit
- band
- bound
- boundary
- breadth
- condition
- limit
- limited
- meta-
- narrow
- narrowly
- range
- specialized
- spread
- stricture
- string
- strings attached idiom
- term
- the gamut
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Idiom(s)
on the threshold of sth