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# threshold

«threshold» in Mova's school dictionary: **The strip of wood or stone on the floor at the bottom of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a threshold, thresholds)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The strip of wood or stone on the floor at the bottom of a doorway; the point where you enter a room or house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/threshold/#m1)

2) The level or amount at which something starts to happen or change: "a pain threshold", "the threshold for passing". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/threshold/#m2)

3) The start or beginning of something new: "on the threshold of a big discovery". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/threshold/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life you cross the threshold when you step into a house; there is an old custom of a groom carrying the bride over the threshold. In science and maths a threshold is a cut-off number: water boils above a threshold temperature; you pass a test above a threshold mark. In stories "on the threshold of" tells the reader that something big is about to begin. Phrases: cross the threshold, pain threshold, above/below the threshold, on the threshold of.

### examples

- She paused on the threshold before stepping inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/threshold/#x1)
- The dog would not cross the threshold of the new house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/threshold/#x2)
- The pass threshold for the test is 60 marks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/threshold/#x3)
- He has a high pain threshold, so the jab didn't bother him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/threshold/#x4)
- Scientists were on the threshold of a great discovery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/threshold/#x5)
- If the noise goes above the threshold, the alarm sounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/threshold/#x6)
- Wipe your feet at the threshold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/threshold/#x7)
- And there lies my faithful mastiff at the threshold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/threshold/#x8)

### note

Spelling trap: only one "h" in the middle — thresh-old, not "threshhold". Countable. In maths: "above the threshold" means more than the number; check whether the threshold number itself counts (at least 60, or more than 60).

### In the corpora

- [And the glory of the LORD went forth from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.195/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «threshold» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/threshold/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.