There is one final lesson to learn before he crosses the threshold from darkness to glory.
She took her temperature on Monday and noted it was slightly elevated to 99.5, just under the threshold for worry.
That year was really the first year that I stepped over the threshold and became more of a collaborator.
Once a threshold osmolality is reached in our bodies, it triggers our brains to make us seek water.
To meet that threshold, experts said, the bond investments or royalty income would have to be substantial.
Banstead lingered by the threshold and took up an illustrated paper.
He rose, saw Katherine, Austin, and Viviette on the threshold.
She was upon her knees on the threshold—her arms crossed over her breast.
As he crossed the threshold, he turned round and blessed me.
His torch will be at the threshold and his knife at the throat of the planter.
Old English þrescold, þærscwold, þerxold "doorsill, point of entering," first element related to Old English þrescan (see thresh), with its original sense of "tread, trample." Second element of unknown origin and much transformed in all the Germanic languages; in English 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 Old Norse þreskjoldr, Swedish tröskel, Old High German driscufli, German dialectal drischaufel.
threshold thresh·old (thrěsh'ōld', -hōld')
n.
The place or point of beginning; the outset.
The lowest point at which a stimulus begins to produce a sensation.
The minimal stimulus that produces excitation of any structure, eliciting a motor response.
